CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Neil Chriss
Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Hutchin Hill Capital
As Founder and CIO of Hutchin Hill Capital, Mr. Chriss oversees portfolio managers and individual strategy selection, directs capital allocation and is responsible for risk management, as well as oversees the growth of the business and infrastructure. Prior to founding Hutchin Hill in October 2007, Mr. Chriss was a Managing Director member at SAC Capital Management (2003-2007), where he established and headed the firm's quantitative strategies division and established and ran the SAC MultiQuant Fund. In 2000 Neil Chriss founded and became President of ICor Brokerage Inc., a global electronic trading platform acquired by Reuters Plc. in 2003. At ICor Mr. Chriss hired the CEO, the technology and sales team and was in charge of the company's operations. Prior to 2000, Mr. Chriss was a portfolio manager and vice president at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (1998-1999), where he developed and managed a global volatility trading strategy. Mr. Chriss started his career in finance in the Institutional Equities Division at Morgan Stanley (1996-1998) where he developed one of the first quantitative models for algorithmic trading and published it in the paper he co-authored "Optimal Execution of Portfolio Transactions" which is now one of the standard industry models for algorithmic trading. He is also the author of Black-Scholes and Beyond: Option Pricing Models, a best-selling text on derivatives. Mr. Chriss holds PhD and BS with honors degrees in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and an MS in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology. He has held post-doctoral and junior faculty positions in the mathematics departments of Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of Toronto. Mr. Chriss serves on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study (2011-Present) and has been a member of its Investment Committee since 2008. Neil is also a founding board member and a member of the Executive Committee of Math for America (2004-Present) and was previously a Trustee of Harvey Mudd College. Mr. Chriss was named a "Rising Star of Hedge Funds" by Institutional Investor in 2010 and a "Tomorrow's Titan: Blue Chip Managers for the Next Decade" by The Hedge Fund Journal in 2010 and 2012. Hutchin Hill Capital was named the 2011 Emerging Hedge Fund of the Year by Institutional Investor.
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