Moderator - Chris Kelliher is the Executive Director of the Master’s in Mathematical Finance and Financial Technology program, where he is also a lecturer. In addition, Mr. Kelliher is a Senior Quantitative Research and Portfolio Manager at Fidelity Investments. He is also the author of “Quantitative Finance with Python: A Practical Guide to Investment Management, Trading and Financial Engineering”. Prior to joining Fidelity in 2019, he served as a portfolio manager for RDC Capital Partners. Before joining RDC, he served as a principal and quantitative portfolio manager at a leading quantitative investment management firm, FDO Partners. Prior to FDO, Mr. Kelliher was a senior quantitative portfolio analyst and trader at Convexity Capital Management and a senior quantitative researcher at Bracebridge Capital. Mr. Kelliher earned a BA in economics from Gordon College, where he graduated Cum Laude with departmental honours and an MS in Mathematical Finance from New York University’s Courant Institute.
Anish Shah PhD, CFA -- Quantitative Analyst, Systematic Equity Strategies, Fidelity Investments. Anish Shah's more than two decades of working in research in algorithmic finance include stops at the quant research firm Northfield, the pioneering crossing network ITG, a ship-tracking hedge fund, and an entrepreneurial endeavor of his uncertainty modeling research. He holds an MS in operations research from the University of California at Berkeley and MS and PhD degrees in applied math from Brown University, where he has taught a course on deep learning. He is a CFA charterholder.
Dan diBartolomeo is President and founder of Northfield Information Services, Inc. He holds positions with several financial industry professional societies such as IAQF, CQA, PRMIA, and the past presidency of the Boston Economics Club. His publication record includes sixty books, book chapters, and peer-review research articles. In addition, Dan spent several years as a Visiting Professor at Brunel University. He has been admitted as an expert witness in litigation matters regarding investment management practices and derivatives in both US federal and state courts. In 2010, he received the Tech 40 Award from Institutional Investor magazine for his key role in the discovery of the Bernard Madoff hedge fund fraud. In 2019, he became “co-editor in chief” of the Journal of Asset Management. In 2022 he was inducted into the Performance Measurement “Hall of Fame” in relation to three papers considered for the Dietz Award.
Max Golts, PhD, is the chief investment officer at 4x4invest. Previously, he was a portfolio manager at Acadian Asset Management, a strategist at SSGA and Fidelity Investments, and a senior research analyst at GMO. He holds a PhD in mathematics from Yale University.
