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2018 Speakers Include:
Ray Carroll, Chief Investment Officer, Neuberger Berman Breton Hill
Ray Carroll, PhD, CFA, Managing Director, joined the firm as Neuberger Berman Breton Hill’s Chief Investment Officer in 2017 following the acquisition of Breton Hill Capital Ltd (BHC). Ray was a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of BHC, responsible for fund performance, investment...
Ernest Chan, Principal, QTS Capital Management
Dr. Ernest P. Chan is the Managing Member of QTS Capital Management, LLC. His career since 1994 has been focusing on the development of statistical models and advanced computer algorithms to find patterns and trends in large quantities of data. He has applied his expertise in statistical pattern...
Adrian De Valois-Franklin, Chief Executive Officer, Castle Ridge Asset Management
Prior to co-founding the AI-powered hedge fund Castle Ridge Asset Management, Adrian was an investment manager with some of the world’s largest financial institutions. As a member of the Principal Investing group for the $300 billion CPP Investment Board (CPPIB), Adrian identified and executed...
Garrett Desimone, Head Of Quantitative Research, OptionMetrics
Garrett DeSimone is the Head of Quantitative Research at OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for institutional investors and academic researchers. His current empirical research at OptionMetrics focuses on derivative pricing and macroeconomics. Dr. DeSimone graduated with his...
Hany Farag, Head Of Methodology And Analytics, CIBC
Hany Farag is Senior Director and Head of Risk Methodology and Analytics at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Prior to his current position he was a partner at Eastmoor Capital Partners, LLP; Managing Director and Head of FX Statistical Arbitrage at CIBC; and Head of Quantitative Research...
Howard Getson, Chief Executive Officer, Capitalogix Trading
Howard runs a hedge fund - and the data science company that powers it. Capitalogix created a revolutionary financial technology platform that uses Adaptive A. I. to maximize performance with real-time insights.While most high-frequency trading focuses on using technology to make thousands of...
Greg Gipson, Head Of Portfolio Management And Quantitative Research, BMO Global Asset Management
Greg started with BMO Asset Management in 2009 and is Head of the Systematic Investment team in Canada. He has been instrumental in building the Systematic Investments business within BMO which manages equity and ETF investment solutions covering global developed markets, including Canadian equity...
Robert Jenkins, Global Head Of Research, Thomson Reuters
Bob has over 25 years experience in the Financial Services and Asset Management industries having served in numerous executive and investment management roles at Fidelity Investments in addition to time spent as a strategy consultant in the Asset Management/FIG practice of McKinsey &...
Michael Nairne, Chief Executive Officer And Chief Information Office, Tacita Capital
Michael Nairne is President and Chief Investment Officer of Tacita Capital Inc., a family office that provides integrated portfolio and wealth management services to families of affluence. Prior to co-founding Tacita, Michael was the Chief Operating Officer of Loring Ward Inc., a family office...
Luis Seco, President And Chief Executive Officer, Sigma Analysis & Management
Luis Seco is a co-founder and the President and CEO of Sigma Analysis & Management. He started his career in financial risk management in 1996, while a Professor at the University of Toronto, creating the RiskLab, a research center that serviced the financial sector in Toronto in the area of...
Jamie Wise, Founder, BUZZ Indexes
Jamie Wise is the Founder of BUZZ Indexes and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Periscope Capital, a Toronto-based hedge fund manager. BUZZ Indexes creates and maintains proprietary quantitative index and portfolio strategies based on Big Data analytics models. Established in...
Jamil Abou Saleh
Vice President, Data Science And Analytics
IIROC
Ray Carroll
Chief Investment Officer
Neuberger Berman Breton Hill
Ernest Chan
Principal
QTS Capital Management
Cecil Cheng
Executive Director
CIBC Capital Markets
Brandon Da Silva
Machine Learning Researcher
OPTrust
Adrian De Valois-Franklin
Chief Executive Officer
Castle Ridge Asset Management
Garrett Desimone
Head Of Quantitative Research
OptionMetrics
Hany Farag
Head Of Methodology And Analytics
CIBC
Ryan Ferguson
Derivatives Trader
Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets
Howard Getson
Chief Executive Officer
Capitalogix Trading
Greg Gipson
Head Of Portfolio Management And Quantitative Research
BMO Global Asset Management
Robert Gouley
Senior Analyst, Trading
OMERS Capital Markets
Emre Konukoglu
Quantitative Researcher
CPP Investment Board
Robert Jenkins
Global Head Of Research
Thomson Reuters
Frank Maeba
Managing Partner
Neuberger Berman Breton Hill
Michael Mescher
Founder
Gammon Capital LLC
Mukhtar Mussabetov
Founder
BlockSpace Labs
Michael Nairne
Chief Executive Officer And Chief Information Office
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