Speaker List
Zura Kakushadze (Guest Lecturer):
Ph.D. CEO, Quantigic® Solutions. Author, “151 Trading Strategies”.
Zura Kakushadze (Guest Lecturer):
Zura Kakushadze: Ph.D. CEO, Quantigic® Solutions. Author, “151 Trading Strategies”
Zura Kakushadze received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University at 23, was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, and an Assistant Professor at C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University. He received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 2001. After expanding into quantitative finance, he was a Director at RBC Capital Markets, Managing Director at WorldQuant, Executive Vice President and substantial shareholder at Revere Data (now part of FactSet), and Adjunct Professor at the University of Connecticut. Currently he is the President and CEO of Quantigic® Solutions and a Full Professor at Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia. He has over 17 years of hands-on experience in quantitative trading and finance, 130+ publications in physics, finance, cancer research and other fields, including the book “151 Trading Strategies”, 3,400+ citations and h-index 30+, 140,000+ downloads on SSRN, and over a quarter million followers on LinkedIn.
Raakhee Miller:
Chief Executive Officer at Bitsian
Raakhee Miller:
Raakhee Miller: Chief Executive Officer at Bitsian
Sol Steinberg:
Founding Principal, OTC Partners
Sol Steinberg:
Sol Steinberg: Founding Principal, OTC Partners
Sol Steinberg is a OTC Markets Subject Matter Expert and specializes in Risk Management, OTC derivatives, Market structure, Collateral, Trade Lifecycle, Valuation, Financial Technology Systems, Strategic development, and Monetization.
Sol is the founding principle of his firm, OTC partners. OTC partners is a boutique value add firm that specializes in research, content, development. Before starting OTC Partners Sol was a senior executive at the world’s leading clearing house LCH.Clearnet. Sol also spent nine years on the buy side and Citi, performing product development, risk management, and valuation for the OTC markets.
Sol has a wide-ranging network of asset managers, analytic providers, execution venues, regulatory, and government contacts. He used his eco system to successfully commercialize analytics, data, and other non commercialized intellectual property and had significant monetization success. He brought to market several initiatives, including institutional and commercial risk engines such as SMART tool, Risk Explorer, Global Market Risk System for Citi: the largest VaR engine in the world from 2004 to 2006, as well as developing CCP2 – a derivative education & certification program for leading consultancies. Sol also contributed to OTC industry’s clearing and default management policies for the cleared OTC swap markets as well as contributed to industry standard risk analytics in times of low market rates.
Awards/Honors
Waters Magazine’s award “Best risk analytics initiative 2012” & “Best risk analytics initiative (Sell Side) 2013”
FTF’s award for “Most cutting edge risk contribution 2013” for developing the SMART risk analytics tool.
Global nominee in 2012 for “Best Practices in Global Financial Risk Management” from PRMIA, Professional Risk Managers International Association.
Patrick Woloveck:
Founder, Knowledge Base Capital
Patrick Woloveck:
Patrick Woloveck: Founder, Knowledge Base Capital
Robert Savage:
CEO, CCTrack Solutions, LLC
Robert Savage:
Robert Savage: CEO, CCTrack Solutions, LLC
David J. Namdar:
Crypto Investment Professional
David J. Namdar:
David J. Namdar: Crypto Investment Professional
Michael Del Casino:
Portfolio Manager, Profluent Trading
Michael Del Casino:
Michael Del Casino: Portfolio Manager, Profluent Trading
Brandon Elsasser:
CIO of Victoria Capital Management
Brandon Elsasser:
Brandon Elsasser: CIO of Victoria Capital Management
Serg Gulko:
CTO of XTRD
Serg Gulko:
Serg Gulko: CTO of XTRD
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