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Alejandro Saltiel
Head of Indexes, U.S.
Alejandro Saltiel joined WisdomTree in May 2017 as part of the US Quantitative Research team. Alejandro oversees the firm’s Equity indexes and actively managed ETFs. He is also involved in the design and analysis of new and existing strategies. Alejandro leads the quantitative analysis efforts across equities and alternatives and contributes to the firm’s website tools and model portfolio infrastructure.
Prior to joining WisdomTree, Alejandro worked at HSBC Asset Management’s Mexico City office as Portfolio Manager for multi-asset mutual funds. Alejandro received his Master’s in Financial Engineering degree from Columbia University in 2017 and a Bachelor’s in Engineering degree from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in 2010. He is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Aneeka Gupta
Director, Macroeconomic Research
Aneeka holds a MSc in Mathematics from Oxford University and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Delhi, India. She is also a chartered financial analyst (CFA).
Ayush Babel
Global Associate Director, Quantitative Research
Ayush is a Global Associate Director in WisdomTree's research and index teams, where he focuses on developing innovative quantitative strategies across asset classes and supporting WisdomTree's diverse range of products. He specialises in factor exploration, portfolio construction and optimisation, and risk management.
Ayush has over 7 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining WisdomTree, Ayush worked in investment research teams at J.P. Morgan and Franklin Templeton where he was responsible for developing and managing equity/fixed income smart beta products, as well as cross-asset risk premia products for global institutional and retail clients. His experience spans across a range of asset classes and investment styles.
Ayush holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Baoqi Zhu
Senior Associate, Quantitative Research and Multi Asset Solutions
Baoqi Zhu joined WisdomTree in 2023 as a Senior Associate on the Research team. Baoqi focuses on quantitative research on thematic equity indices and portfolio solutions. Prior to WisdomTree, Baoqi spent over two years at Ernst & Young (EY) in their Quantitative Advisory Services, where he was involved in the research and development of quantitative risk models. Earlier in his career, Baoqi served as a quantitative analyst within a multi-asset structuring team at Maven Global for more than three years. His responsibilities included designing and optimising bespoke hedging strategies based on derivatives.
Baoqi holds a MSc in Financial Engineering & Risk Management from Imperial College London and a BSc in Actuarial Science from Nankai University, China. He is also a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).
Benjamin Dean
Director, Digital Assets
Benjamin is a Director in the Digital Assets team for WisdomTree. He focuses on overall digital asset strategy, research and external relations. Prior to joining the company Ben was Cyber Catastrophe Lead at Hiscox Insurance Group. His prior work experience covered the opportunities and risks presented by emerging technologies for organisations including the OECD and the European Parliament.
Ben was a Fellow for Cybersecurity and received a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He also graduated with honours from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Economic and Social Sciences.
Blake Heimann
Senior Associate, Quantitative Research
Blake Heimann joined WisdomTree in 2020 and, in his current role as Senior Associate, supports the creation, maintenance, and reconstitution of our indices. Blake began his career in finance in 2017 as an Analyst at TD Ameritrade, and later a Quantitative Analyst with focuses on research and development of machine learning applications in finance. Blake has bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Iowa State University, and is currently pursuing his Masters in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, with a specialisation in Machine Learning.
Christopher Gannatti
Global Head of Research, WisdomTree.
Christopher Gannatti began at WisdomTree as a Research Analyst in December 2010, working directly with Jeremy Schwartz, CFA®, Director of Research. In January of 2014, he was promoted to Associate Director of Research where he was responsible for leading different groups of analysts and strategists within the broader Research team at WisdomTree. In February of 2018, Christopher moved to WisdomTree’s London office and was promoted to Head of Research, Europe, where he is responsible for the WisdomTree’s research effort within the European market as well as supporting the UCITS platform globally. In November of 2021, Christopher was promoted to the position of Global Head of Research, where he will continue to oversee the European research efforts and also lead a component of the US research team, thereby providing enhanced coordination across both of WisdomTree’s major markets.
Prior to working at WisdomTree, Chris was a Regional Consultant at Lord Abbett. He received his MBA in Quantitative Finance, Accounting, and Economics from NYU’s Stern School of Business in 2010, and received his bachelor’s degree from Colgate University in Economics in 2006. Christopher is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Dovile Silenskyte
Director, Digital Assets Research
Dovile holds an MSc in Finance from Texas A&M University – Commerce, and she is also a chartered financial analyst (CFA).
Elvira Kuramshina
Associate Director, Quantitative Research
Elvira is a member of the Research team at WisdomTree, where she predominantly covers thematic strategies and focuses on quantitative research, product collateral, custom analysis for clients and the research of new strategy ideas.
Before joining the firm in September 2018, Elvira started her career in the team focusing on solutions for ETF providers at Solactive AG. During her master studies she worked as an intern in the Multi Asset team at Assenagon Asset Management.
Elvira holds a Master’s degree in Money and Finance from the Goethe University in Frankfurt. Her graduate thesis focused on option-implied information and factor investing.
Jason Guthrie
Head of Digital Asset Product and Head of Digital Assets
Previously Guthrie was head of Capital Markets for WisdomTree in Europe for 4 years, where his team was responsible for ensuring clients had a smooth trade execution experience. Prior to joining WisdomTree, Guthrie worked at Deutsche Bank’s ETF Capital Markets group as well as Macquarie Bank as an Investment Executive based in Sydney, Australia. Jason holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from Macquarie University in Sydney.
Jeremy Schwartz
Global Chief Investment Officer
Jeremy Schwartz has served as our Global Chief Investment Officer since November 2021 and leads WisdomTree’s investment strategy team in the construction of WisdomTree’s equity Indexes, quantitative active strategies and multi-asset Model Portfolios. Jeremy joined WisdomTree in May 2005 as a Senior Analyst, adding Deputy Director of Research to his responsibilities in February 2007. He served as Director of Research from October 2008 to October 2018 and as Global Head of Research from November 2018 to November 2021. Before joining WisdomTree, he was a head research assistant for Professor Jeremy Siegel and, in 2022, became his co-author on the sixth edition of the book Stocks for the Long Run. Jeremy is also co-author of the Financial Analysts Journal paper “What Happened to the Original Stocks in the S&P 500?” He received his B.S. in economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and hosts the Wharton Business Radio program Behind the Markets on SiriusXM 132. Jeremy is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.
Kevin Flanagan
Head of Fixed Income Strategy
Kevin Flanagan joined WisdomTree in 2016 as Senior Fixed Income Strategist. He contributes to the asset allocation team and provides expertise on WisdomTree’s global fixed income content. Prior to joining WisdomTree, Kevin spent 30 years at Morgan Stanley, where he was most recently a Managing Director. He was responsible for tactical and strategic recommendations and created asset allocation models for fixed income securities. He was a contributor to the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Global Investment Committee, primary author of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s monthly and weekly fixed income publications, and collaborated with the firm’s Research and Consulting Group Divisions to build ETF and fund manager asset allocation models. Kevin has an MBA from Pace University’s Lubin Graduate School of Business, and a B.S in Finance from Fairfield University.
Luca Berlanda
Associate Director, Quantitative Research
Before joining WisdomTree in 2022, Luca worked as a Quantitative Portfolio Manager at Euclidea SIM, a Milan-based fintech where he quantitatively managed multi-asset portfolios and developed and implemented statistical and machine learning models for investment strategies and fund selection.
Luca holds a Master's degree in Finance from Bocconi University, Milan.
Michael Delew
Head of Capital Markets
Michael is Head of Capital Markets at WisdomTree, having joined the firm in 2018. In his role, Michael produces regular research on ETF liquidity, trading and pricing, and leads the firm’s relationship management in EMEA with sell side entities. Michael began his career at Invesco, where he worked for the company for seven and a half years, in their Chicago, Dublin, and London offices and where he was responsible for leading operations in a companywide initiative to expand the ETF range in EMEA.
Michael holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations with an Economics Concentration from Wheaton College, Illinois
Mobeen Tahir
Director, Research
Mobeen is a member of WisdomTree’s research team where he focuses on a wide range of asset classes to offer strategic and tactical insights to our clients on global markets and investment products.
Before joining WisdomTree in December 2018, Mobeen worked at Willis Towers Watson as an investment consultant advising institutional clients as well as their in-house fund business on asset allocation and portfolio construction with his research focus being equity and multi-asset smart beta.
Mobeen has a BSc (Hons) in Accounting and Financial Management from Loughborough University and an MSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also a CFA Charterholder.
Nitesh Shah
Head of Commodities and Macroeconomic Research, WisdomTree Europe
Nitesh is Head of Commodities & Macroeconomic Research, Europe at WisdomTree. Prior to the acquisition of ETF Securities in April 2018, Nitesh was a Commodities Strategist for the company. Nitesh has 20 years of experience as an economist and strategist, covering a wide range of markets and asset classes.
At WisdomTree he has been leading the research efforts in the commodity space, developing accessible publications targeted to a wide audience. His gold model and outlooks are widely anticipated by clients.
Before joining WisdomTree, He began his career at HSBC Investment Bank, he then went on to become an economist at the Pension Protection Fund, and then an economist covering the European structured finance markets at Moody’s Investors Service and was a member of Moody’s global macroeconomics team.
Nitesh holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics (UK) and a Master of Arts in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University (USA).
Piergiacomo Braganti
Director, Research
Pierre Debru
Head of Quantitative Research and Multi Asset Solutions, WisdomTree Europe.
Pierre heads the Quantitative Research & Multi Asset Solutions team in Europe for WisdomTree. Pierre joined the WisdomTree Research team in 2019 as a Director. Pierre focuses on cross-asset quantitative research, client portfolio solutions and Short and Leverage Investments. Prior to joining the company, Pierre worked in Investment Research for DWS and the XTrackers range for more than five years. During this period, he focused on Smart Beta Investments, Model Portfolio Construction and Thought Leadership. Pierre has more than 17 years’ experience in investments and structured asset management. He graduated from Ecole Central Paris and obtained a Master of Science in Mathematics applied to Finance.
Prof. Wim Schoutens
Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium
Wim Schoutens is a professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He has extensive experience of quantitative finance and risk-management and is highly regarded for his consulting work to the banking industry and national and supra-national institutions. Wim is an independent expert adviser to the European Commission, has worked for the IMF and is the author of several books on quantitative finance and contingent convertible bonds (CoCos). He is also the editor of several academic journals and editor in chief of both the ‘Review of Derivatives Research' and 'Frontiers of Mathematical Finance'.
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