Alex Shapiro

Education

• Ph.D. Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
• M.A. Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
• M.B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) Tel Aviv University

• B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

• Securities Sales, Trading, and Research (Brokerage), Managing Front-Office Coverage of Institutional and Qualified Investors.

• Business Development - OTC and Listed Instruments for Institutional, Corporate, and HNW Clients.

• Portfolio Management ("Risk Taking"), both Systematic and Discretionary in Developed and Emerging Markets, across Equities, Commodities, Derivatives, with Credit and FX exposures.

• Risk Management using Top-Down modeling and Bottom-Up Exposure Aggregation (Market & Credit)

• Managing a Team of highly skilled financial professionals, traders, researchers, and developers.

• Quantitative Research Driven Investments, Proprietary Algorithmic & Market-Neutral Trading.

• Coverage of various Hedge-Fund strategies (Long/Short Equity; Global Macro; Credit, Event, Fixed Income, and Relative Value Arbitrage; Multi-Process), including Search, Evaluation, Due Diligence, Execution, and Monitoring of investments in Hedge Funds and Portfolio Overlays.

• Sell-Side and Buy-Side Best Practices, Banking, Fund of Hedge Funds, Asset Management.