Joe Zhou, Ph.D.

Chief Investment Officer & Executive Director, Ortus Capital

 

Joe Zhou, Ph.D., Chief Investment Officer and Executive Director. Dr. Zhou was a founding member of Ortus. Prior to Ortus, Dr. Zhou co-founded Divergence Capital Management LLC. From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Zhou was the Head of Research at Quantitative Financial Strategies, Inc. Dr. Zhou started his career as a proprietary trader, first at Lehman Brothers, and then at Bear Stearns, where he traded a wide variety of futures and options contracts from 1993 to 1996. He also was Assistant Professor of Finance at Washington University in St. Louis from 1996 to 1997. Dr. Zhou received his B.S. in Mathematics from Wuhan University (Wuhan, China) and two degrees from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania: a M.A. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Finance.