Management and Fund Managers

Vik Mehrotra, CEO >

Vikas Chawla, Chief Operating Officer >

Jeffrey Heisler, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer

Dylan Tinker, Portfolio Manager >

Finance and Reporting

Avi Mehta, Chief Financial Officer >

Research and Trading

Tajinder Singh, Trading Strategist* >

Vidya Murthy, Vice President–Trading Strategist >

Marketing and Business Development

Natasha B. Koprivica, Senior Vice President >

Havell Rodrigues, CAIA, Senior Vice President >

Operations

Harry Sheil, CFA, Vice President >

Heather Fordyce >

* Several personnel are outsourced from various independent companies.

Jeffrey Heisler has experience with quantitative strategies and methods both as a practitioner and academic. At Gottex Fund Management, he was involved in all aspects of the investment process; including fund selection, market research, portfolio management and product design. Jeff was responsible for the sourcing and evaluation of new hedge funds; conducting in-depth quantitative and qualitative due diligence for candidate and approved funds. He was also deeply involved in the development and implementation of Gottex’s risk management and reporting systems. Earlier in his career he developed a currency futures technical trading strategy for Odyssey Partners, was a Regional Marketing Manager at Saba Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of character recognition technology, having started as an engineer, in multiple capacities, with IBM.

In his academic pursuits, Jeff was a professor in the Finance and Economics Department at Boston University, a visiting professor of finance at NYU and an instructor at Reykjavik University. He has published in academic and practitioner journals, most recently 2 papers in 2007, and is currently completing a co-authored text book on portfolio management. As the founding Faculty Director, Jeff was instrumental in the 2000 launch of the Master of Science in Investment Management (MSIM) Program at BU, The MSIM is an executive-style program, with limited enrollment, designed to train students in leading edge theory and practice in the field of investment management. He currently sits on the program’s advisory board.

Jeff received his BS from Union College, his MBA from the University of Chicago, and his PhD from New York University. He is also a CFA charter holder.

 
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