Philip Simotas joined ROW Asset Management in May 2015 as the Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Mr. Simotas oversees several functions which include managing the business development, product development and marketing processes as well as the general operations of the company.
Prior to joining ROW, Philip Simotas was one of the principals of FX Concepts, where over a 20 year period spanning from 1993 to 2013, he built one of the premier investment management firms specializing in foreign currency and global fixed income management. At its peak in 2008, FX Concepts managed about $14 billion in assets. While as President of the firm, he oversaw all aspects of the company’s day to day operations, his primary areas of focus and expertise included portfolio and risk management, research and product development, as well as business development and marketing.
Overall, his experience in currency and derivatives trading spans almost 30 years having begun his career as a currency trader for Dean Witter in 1986. Mr. Simotas is a cum laude graduate of Yale University with a degree in Economics.
John is an experienced investment management professional, having been an analyst, portfolio manager, and senior executive at some of the preeminent global asset management firms. Prior to founding IGP, John was Managing Director, Head of Research for Fidelity Investments, where he was responsible for the strategic direction and priorities of Fidelity research and directly responsible for the performance of the following research teams: core technology, real estate, diversified analysts, international small cap and India. At Fidelity, John managed over 45 analysts and portfolio managers investing over $550 billion in assets. Prior to Fidelity, John was Senior Equity Analyst, Director of Research and head of consumer research for Pioneer Investments. He outperformed the market by 300bps over his two years managing Pioneer’s research fund. John was also a portfolio manager at Prudential and Montgomery Asset Management. While at Montgomery, he managed over $3b billion in assets for institutional clients. Earlier John was a Senior Global Equity Analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein for 6 years.
In 2009, John left Fidelity to start, incubate and invest in new ventures. To date he has founded Cellucomp, Longbridge Financial, Education Funding Partners, and most recently Infusion Global Partners. John holds a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University with concentration in Finance and East Asian Affairs. John is fluent in Japanese.
Anirudh “Rudi” Singh, Founder and CIO
Before founding Aptior, Rudi was Head of the London-based Credit Team at Eton Park which invested globally. His previous role at Eton Park was as Head of European and Asian Credit which he was promoted to at the end of 2012 after joining the firm in early 2011. Prior to Eton Park, Rudi worked Goldman Sachs, where he was Executive Director for the Securities Division’s Distressed Investing Desk in London. He began his Goldman Sachs career in the TMT team of the Goldman’s investment banking division.
Rudi holds a double First-Class MA (Hons) in Economics from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. During his time there, he was awarded the title of College Scholar and the Stanley Dennison Prize for Economics. He was also played in First-Class cricket for Cambridge University from 2003 to 2005.
CEO/Chief Investment Officer-CloudQuant Capital Management
Morgan has over 20 years of experience as a trader, portfolio manager, executive and entrepreneur in the financial services industry. He is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of CloudQuant Capital Management LLC (www.CloudQuant.com), a crowd-researcher powered quantitative investment fund, with an impressive six-year track record, utilizing machine learning and other artificial intelligence research techniques to generate returns.
Morgan’s career has included leading roles as a Portfolio Manager, and executive of several of the world’s largest hedge funds, investment banks and CTAs. These include Millburn Ridgefield, Merrill Lynch, Carlson Capital LP, Penson Worldwide, Citadel Investment Group, Allston Trading and Wolverine Securities. His proven track record in quantitative investing, portfolio management and risk management made him ideal to lead the CloudQuant initiatives.
Chaya Slain is the Chief Investment Officer for AdCap Inc, a single family office based in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to AdCap, Chaya spent more than a decade at Parkwood, a single family office.
Chaya spent the first five years of her career in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs. She attended Columbia University where she earned a BA in received a mathematics degree. Chaya is a CFA charterholder and CAIA charterholder. She is actively involved in her community and sits on the board of directors for a number of nonprofit organizations.
