Ronnee Ades

Ronnee Ades is Professor of Professional Practice in the Finance & Economics Department at Rutgers Business School, and the founder of RAA Consulting Services, an independent consulting firm focused on providing intelligence on Indexing & ETFs, and career guidance in the financial services industry. Professor Ades is well known for her popular Indexing and ETFs class, a graduate class focused on the theories and practical experience that are the foundation for indexing and underpinning for ETFs. Her Ethics in Finance classes fill each semester with students eager to learn about the ethical issues confronting financial professionals, institutions, and markets. When not lecturing, she can be found advising one of the many RBS teams participating in academic and industry competitions.

Prior to joining the RBS faculty full-time, Ronnee was the Director of Career Management for the Master of Quantitative Finance Program. Before joining RBS, she served as Head of U.S. Index Business Development at Markit, where she was responsible for managing Fixed Income Index and ETF business development and driving the commercialization of index and data products working with clients including asset managers, banks, ETF Sponsors, Hedge Funds, Liquidity Providers, Market Data Vendors and Exchanges. In 2009 she led a strategic new business development initiative at Bloomberg in the Data Solutions Group. Ronnee was previously Global Head of the Alternatives Business Unit at Index Provider FTSE Russell and a Senior Director at Dow Jones Indexes, where she led the Equity Institutional Business Development team targeting pension funds, foundations and endowments, and Taft Hartley Funds, and the consultants serving them.

Ronnee received a bachelor’s degree (with high honors) in economics from SUNY Stony Brook and an MBA in finance from the Fox School of Business at Temple University.

Education

• Emory University
• BA State University of New York at Stony Brook
• MBA Temple University - Fox School of Business and Management

Companies

• Assistant Professor Rutgers Business School (2019)
• Principal RAA Consulting (2014)
• Director of Career Management, Master of Quantitative Finance Program Rutgers Business School (2015 — 2019)
• Adjunct Professor Rutgers Business School (2015 — 2019)
• Senior Director, Head of Indices, US Business Development Markit (2010 — 2013)
• Director Business Development - Data Solutions Bloomberg (2009 — 2010)
• Global Business Unit Head, Alternatives FTSE (2008 — 2009)
• Senior Director, Institutional Markets Dow Jones & Co., Inc. (2001 — 2008)
• Senior Director of Marketing Dow Jones & Co., Inc. (2001 — 2006)