Iraklis Kourtidis is a VP, Portfolio Management at Betterment. They possess expertise in trading, market making, algorithms, options, c++ and 35 more skills. They is proficient in Greek. Colleagues describe them as "I worked with Iraklis closely at Wealthfront on automated investment product development during 2013-2015. The most notable project we worked closely together was Direct Indexing, which replicates S&P 500 with a subset of the constituent stocks and simultaneously harvests tax losses to deliver better after-tax returns than holding the index itself. Iraklis and I were the primary authors developing the first version of the product, where I developed the portfolio optimization model… Show more" and "Iraklis was my on-boarding mentor at Wealthfront. He got me up to speed with what I needed to know so I could start working on impactful projects quickly. Not only did he help me grow technically, but he also helped me navigate the soft skills aspects of my first job. Iraklis has deep knowledge about finance, financial services and the technology behind them. Talking to him inspired an interest in me that I carry to this day. Working with him was definitely a great part of working at… Show more"