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Vineer Bhansali is a managing director and portfolio manager at Pimco, currently overseeing Pimco's quantitative investment portfolios. Since 2000, he has also headed Pimco's firmwide analytics department. Bhansali is the author of numerous scientific and financial papers and of three books. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from Harvard University.
Bhansali has a master's degree in physics and an undergraduate degree from the California Institute of Technology.
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David Blitzer, is managing director and chairman of the Standard & Poor's Index Committee. He has overall responsibility for security selection for S&P's indexes, and index analysis and management. Blitzer previously served as chief economist for S&P and corporate economist at The McGraw-Hill Companies, S&P's parent corporation. A graduate of Cornell University, he received his M.A. in economics from George Washington University and his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
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Salvatore Bruno is chief investment officer at IndexIQ. Prior to joining IndexIQ, he was a portfolio manager at Deutsche Asset Management, where he was also the global head of quantitative research. Bruno earned a B.S. in applied economics and business management from Cornell University and an MBA in finance and economics from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University.
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Kishore Karunakaran is president and co-founder of ETF issuer QuantShares. Prior to joining QuantShares, he was a director in the quantitative equities stock selection group at Platinum Grove Asset Management LP. Karunakaran previously was employed as a vice president at AQR Capital Management LLC and a senior portfolio manager at SSgA. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a master's degree from the University of Sydney, Australia.
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Peter Little, CFA, is a director at Credit Suisse and head of portfolio management and implementation for alternative beta products within the liquid alternatives group. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 2003, he worked for Barclays Capital as well as Royal Bank of Scotland, J.P. Morgan, Chase Manhattan Bank and Standard Chartered. Little earned a B. Comm in finance from the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa in 1995.
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Jeremy Schwartz is director of research at WisdomTree Investments Inc. Prior to joining WisdomTree, he was the head research assistant for Jeremy Siegel, WisdomTree's senior investment strategy advisor and The Wharton School's Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance, and helped with the research and writing of Siegel's books "Stocks for the Long Run" and "The Future for Investors." Schwartz is a graduate of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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Michael Vogelzang, president and chief investment officer, has managed Boston Advisors since 1997 and led his firm's management buyout in 2006. He also chairs the Boston Advisors' independent board of directors. Vogelzang serves on the investment committee of the $300 million Barnabas Foundation. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and belongs to the Boston Security Analysts Society. Vogelzang earned a B.A. from Calvin College in Michigan.
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