Executive Committee

President: Edward Aw, Head of Quantitative Strategies, Bessemer Trust

Vice President: Kenneth Hightower, Director of Quantitative Analytics, East Rock Capital (former)

Secretary: Pawel Polak, Assistant Professor, Stonybrook University; Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Advanced              Computational Science

Treasurer: Yesim Tokat-Acikel, Ph.D., Managing Director, Portfolio Management, Principal Asset Management

Immediate Past President: Amy Wierenga, Head of Financial & Model Risk, PNC Financial Services

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Directors, Class of 2028

Indrani De, Head of Global Investment Research, London Stock Exchange Group

Jim Gordon, Head of Quantitative Research and Risk Management, Equity, Federated Investors

Jason MacQueen, Director of Research, Smart Portfolio Strategies

Lilian Quah, Head of Quantitative Research, Portfolio Manager, Epoch Investment Partners (former)

Rudi Schadt, Board Member, Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA)

Jess Stauth, Chief Investment Officer, Systematic Equity, Fidelity

Amit Sinha, Partner, Quantitative Research, Ares Management Corporation (new)

Ben Steiner, Principal, Blackstone

Pavel Vaynshtok, Portfolio Specialist, Jacobs Levy Equity Management

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Directors, Class of 2027

Christos Koutsoyannis, Chief Investment Officer, Atlas Ridge Capital

Drew Thornton, Head of Solutions Thought Leadership, Invesco

Reha Tutuncu, Head of Portfolio Research, Point72

Ingrid Tierens, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

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Directors, Class of 2026

Petter Kolm, Clinical Professor and Director of M.S. in Mathematics in Finance, NYU Courant 

Andrew Chin, Head of Quantitative Research and Chief Data Scientist, AllianceBernstein

Peg DiOrio, Co-Head of Quantitative Equities, Voya Investment Management (former)

Matthew Rothman, Head of Statistical Arbitrage Strategies, Millennium Management

Yosef Zweibach, Chief Operating Officer, Quant Strategies, Walleye Capital

Ken D’Souza, Portfolio Manager, PGIM Quantitative Solutions

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Academic Advisory Board

Simona Abis, Columbia Business School 

Nicholas Barberis, Yale University

Kent Daniel, Columbia University

Bruno Kamdem, Assistant Professor, Farmingdale State College School of Business (new)

Bryan Kelly, Yale University

Jeffrey Wurgler, New York University

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Honorary Board

Irina Bogacheva, Head of Multi-Asset Research, QS Investors

Michelle R. Clayman, New Amsterdam Partners, L.P.

Joel Kaplan, 1010 Data

Colm O'Cinneide, Head of Portfolio Construction, QS Investors

Inna Okounkova, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University

Merav Ozair, NYU

E.K. Easton Ragsdale, Robeco Investment Management

Jonathan Reiss, Analytical Synthesis LLC

Rudi Schadt, INVESCO

Greg Van Inwegen, Global Head of Quantitative Research and Asset Allocation, Citigroup

Kenneth Winston, Western Asset Management

Viktor Ziskin, Co-Head, Beacon Banking