Executive Committee

President: Pavel Vaynshtok, Portfolio Specialist, Jacobs Levy Equity Management

Vice President: Amy Wierenga, MD, Investments, CRO, GCM Grosvenor 

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

Treasurer: Jess Stauth, Chief Investment Officer, Systematic Equity, Fidelity 

Immediate Past President: Christos Koutsoyannis, Chief Investment Officer, Atlas Ridge Capital

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Directors, Class of 2026

Andrew Chin, Head of Quantitative Research and Chief Data Scientist, AllianceBernstein
Peg DiOrio, Co-Head of Quantitative Equities, Voya Investment Management
Ken D’Souza, Managing Director, PGIM Quantitative Solutions
Kenneth Hightower, Director of Quantitative Analytics, East Rock Capital
Petter Kolm, Clinical Professor and Director of M.S. in Mathematics in Finance, NYU Courant 
Matthew Rothman, Deputy Head of Quantitative Strategies, Millennium Management
Yosef Zweibach, Chief Operating Officer, Quant Strategies, Walleye Capital

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Directors, Class of 2025

Lilian Quah, Head of Quantitative Research, Portfolio Manager, Epoch Investment Partners
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
John Regino, Executive Director, Business and Product Strategy, MSCI
Ben Steiner, General Manager, causaLens

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Directors, Class of 2024

Drew Thornton, Head of Solutions Thought Leadership, Invesco

Melanie Petsch, Lead Data Scientist, Regulation, NYSE

Reha Tutuncu, Head of Portfolio Research, Point72

Michi Botlo, Chair of Advisors, Co-Founder, Quantbot

Ingrid Tierens, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

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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

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Academic Advisory Board

Simona Abis, Columbia Business School 

Nicholas Barberis, Yale University

Kent Daniel, Columbia University

Bryan Kelly, Yale University

Jeffrey Wurgler, New York University