Alex has over 30 years of experience in finance, investment research, portfolio management, asset allocation, manager research and selection, alternative investments, private equity, venture capital, quantitative research, and strategic consulting. Alex is the Head of Manager and Investment Research responsible for manager selection and oversight. He manages a team of analysts across multi-asset classes, both public and private. Alex is the Chair of the Manager Selection Working Group, and he is a member of the Investment Committee and the Endowments and Foundations Steering Committee.
Prior to joining the firm, Alex was a director of quantitative research at Commonfund, an OCIO asset management firm for endowments and foundations. Before that, Alex was a quantitative equity portfolio manager at The Rockledge Group, a quantitative equity investment management firm that he co-founded. At Rockledge, he managed portfolios for institutional and individual investors. There he launched a mutual fund and a long/short exchange-traded fund. He has also worked as a venture capital investor for GE Capital and as a strategy consultant for Bain and Company.
Alex has been an adjunct professor and a lecturer at Pace University and Stevens Institute of Technology, teaching graduate and undergraduate finance courses, such as investment management, alternative investments, valuation of the firm, and corporate finance.
Alex earned a B.A. in Physics at the University of Chicago, an MBA at INSEAD in France, an M.S. in Financial Engineering at New York University Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in Financial Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he received “Best Dissertation” award.
