Mark Antonio Moustapha Awada Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Boca Raton, Fl, Us

CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, West Palm Beach, FL(2018-Present) Leads investor relations, consulting, research and development of Quantitative and ML-driven strategies. - Starting in 2018, serves as Chief Risk and Data Analytics Officer for Alpha Innovations, a start-up in the investment space. Leading the design of the entire data and analytics platform related to the program as well as portfolio construction, performance, dynamic asset allocation, risk and investment management, research and strategy development. Additionally, as part of the C-Suite, provides advice to senior management on compliance, execution and risk issues. - Implemented investor development and engagement based on a new formula to raise capital. - Conducts collaborative research, with scientists from MIT, Harvard and Cornell, in Data Science and Machine Learning applications for industry-specific clients.INVESTMENT & ADVISORY, UK(2010-2016) CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER / CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST / FOUNDER Created a global firm, and a successful hedge fund with clients in Europe, Asia and the US, that produced profits and consistent returns over a period of seven years. Built a strong team of highly regarded leaders in their respective fields, giving the company giving an edge in the market place. Directed Portfolio Managers. Managed systematic quantitative trading in global equities, futures, FX and advisory. Initiated and managed investment processes, portfolio asset allocations and risk management. Innovated algorithms in asset investment applications that generated consistently high profits.- Captured consistent positive absolute net returns of 8% annualized, outperforming key indexes including HFRX and SocGen Statistical Arbitrage Index. - Raised over $200 million capital by cultivating investor relationships and markets by authoring and presenting compelling marketing materials. - Sunofia owns the IP of all trading models and systematic trading systems that I designed.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Reported to the Chief Investment Officer and Partner. Hired to create and establish a systematic, quantitative and multi-strategy global trading portfolio. Led and directed team of five: Chief Technology Officer, senior trading systems engineer, two senior quantitative analysts, and a portfolio manager. Responsibilities included: portfolio construction, dynamic asset allocation, risk and investment management, research and strategy development, advising and informing senior management on compliance, execution and risk issues.- On schedule, provided the firm a robust, tested and successful strategy plan and the road map for seamless execution of the new platform.

Led and directed 15-person team of portfolio managers, traders, a risk manager, quantitative researchers and trading engineers. Developed new quantitative models in statistical arbitrage, directional and high frequency trading strategies and systematic execution trading system. Applied machine learning to diverse data sets for stock selection. Built and managed internal hedge fund with solid track record based on daily VaR of €3 million with up to €600 million in capital usage producing absolute net returns of 12% annualized. Key member of executive level investment committee. Reported to the Global Head of Capital Markets for Asia and Europe.- Built global client base of institutional investor relationships in US, Asia, and Middle East including fund of funds, private/retail banks, asset managers and insurance companies investing in Alternative Investment products generating over $1 billion in assets. - Created systematic framework to manage investment portfolio and asset allocations processes. Fully automated quantitative trading which not only eliminated risky human intervention while achieving profitability targets.

Built business focused on fund-linked derivative products with national exposure of $500 million. Reporting to Global Head of Equity Derivatives, led and directed a team of five, two senior marketers, a quantitative analyst, two derivative traders with focus on bringing new client money, allocating this money to the fund and trading it activity. Daily activities were on portfolio construction and asset allocation, risk management and managing the team.- Generated profits, exceeding forecasts.

Managed 18-person global team based in London, Paris and Tokyo including traders, quantitative analysts and trading engineers. Developed new quantitative models for equity derivative-linked products and statistical arbitrage, trading across all asset classes. - Transformed a business unit to profitability. - Researched and developed quantitative models, trading strategies for complex exotic equity linked products, statistical arbitrage and high frequency directional signals, portfolio construction, and asset allocation.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

- Invited speaker to 20 American and European Universities- Plenary addresses at 14 national and international Physics Conferences- Lecturer for courses at Intern School of High Energy Physics and Cosmology and Intern Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste Italy

Harvard Business Analytics Program, Leadership, Innovation And Change | Digital Strategy & Transformation | Digital Driven Marketing

Harvard Business Analytics Program, Operations And Supply Chain Managment | Data Science Pipeline And Design Thinking

Postdoctoral Fellowship At Department Of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Theoretical And Mathematical Physics

Phd, Theoretical Physics

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Theoretical Physics