Global Volatility Summit

Tony Hawk — Professional Skateboarder & Entrepreneur. <p>Tony Hawk was age 9 when his older brother gave him a blue fiberglass skateboard, chipped and scratched from years of use. The first time Tony stepped on it and rolled down an alley behind the family’s house in San Diego, there was no epiphany, no revelation … no foreshadowing whatsoever that he would go on to become the most famous skateboarder of all time. He reached the end driveway, looked back at his brother and shouted, “How do I turn?”</p> <p>Eventually, of course, Tony learned to do more than merely turn. Practicing at the now-defunct Oasis Skatepark, the undersized prodigy soon began to attract attention by performing maneuvers well beyond his years. At age 12 he was winning amateur contests throughout California, at 14 he turned pro, and at 16 he was widely regarded as the best competitive skateboarder in the world. By the time he was 25, he’d competed in 103 pro contests, winning 73 of them and placing second in 19—a record that will almost certainly never be matched. He was crowned vertical skating’s world champion 12 years in a row.</p> <p>In 1999, Tony teamed up with Activision to create the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video game franchise. The Tony Hawk video game series became one of the most popular game franchises in history (and has now sold nearly $2 billion in sales) with an all-new game, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 coming out July 11, 2025. In a stroke of good timing, at the X Games that year, Tony also became the first skateboarder to ever land a 900, a maneuver that had eluded (and occasionally hobbled) him for 10 years. It was one of skating’s most gripping moments, playing out in front of a collection of his peers and fans, and on national TV. That exposure, along with his successful video game, helped establish Tony’s mainstream celebrity.</p> <p>Today, his business skills have helped create a Tony Hawk brand that includes a billion-dollar video game franchise, successful businesses such as <strong><a href="https://birdhouseskateboards.com/">Birdhouse Skateboards</a></strong>, Hawk Clothing, and the Tony Hawk Signature Series sporting goods and toys. Tony regularly appears on television and in films. His autobiography, <em>HAWK—Occupation: Skateboarder</em> was a New York Times bestseller and is currently available in paperback. In 2010, Wiley Publishing released <em>How Did I Get Here? The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO</em>. During 2012, in partnership with Google, Inc. Tony’s film production company, <strong><a href="https://900films.com/">900 Films</a></strong>, launched <em>RIDE Channel </em>on YouTube, the world’s most popular video site.</p> <p>Tony is a role model for fans of all ages. His charitable foundation, The <strong><a href="https://www.skatepark.org/">Skatepark Project</a></strong> (formerly the <em>Tony Hawk Foundation),</em> has awarded over $13 million in grants to over 660 skatepark projects throughout the United States. Over 17 million users annually enjoy skateparks that the foundation has helped fund.</p>

Will Bartlett — Chief Executive Officer, Parallax Volatility Advisers. <p>William Bartlett is Parallax Volatility Advisers’ CEO. Will has been involved with equity options since 1995 and has been with Parallax since 1996. In his more than 25 years at Parallax, he has played an active role transforming the firm from a small, floor-based equity options trading operation into a large participant in the global volatility market. Prior to joining Parallax, Will worked on the floor of the Pacific Coast Exchange while earning his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Will proudly serves on the Board of Governors of Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco, the Board of Trustees of San Francisco University High School, and is a Senior Member of The Guardsmen, an organization helping at-risk youth by providing scholarships, support, and outdoor education programs to students in the San Francisco Bay Area.</p>

Greg Bond — Chief Executive Officer, Man Numeric. <p>Gregory (‘Greg’) Bond is CEO of Man Numeric, Head of the Americas for Man Group, and lead portfolio manager for Man Group’s flagship multi-strategy fund. He also serves on the Man Group Executive Committee and the Man Numeric Investment Committee. Previously, Greg was director of research at Man Numeric, responsible for research initiatives, including the day-to-day management of Man Numeric’s strategic alpha research team. Before becoming director of research, he was a portfolio manager for various hedge fund strategies at Numeric as well as being co-head of its hedge fund group, having joined in 2003. Greg holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and in biology from Yale University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.</p>

Derek Brannon — Portfolio Manager, Capula Investment Management. <p>Derek Brannon is a portfolio manager at Capula Investment US LP focused on U.S. equity volatility trading strategies. Derek joined the firm in August 2021 from Morgan Stanley, where he worked as an equity index volatility trader for over eight years. Prior to this, Derek has been an assistant vice president at Bank of America from July 2007 to June 2010. BA Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, University of Chicago, 2007 MBA Analytic Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2012</p>

Nina Chao — Managing Director, Equity Derivative Sales, Societe Generale. <p>Nina Chao joined Societe Generale’s New York office in January 2025 where she is leading the US Equity Derivative Flow Sales Team. Nina’s focus has traditionally been covering credit, convert and securitized product hedge funds for Equity Derivative products.</p> <p>Nina began her career at Citi in 2007, where she worked until 2023. For the first eight years, Nina spent time on the Convertible Bond & Distressed Credit Sales desks covering hedge fund and asset managers clients, before moving to the Cross Asset Sales Team in 2016. In 2019, she joined the Equity Derivatives Sales desk expanding her client base to include fundamental equity & securitized product funds. In 2023, Nina joined BNP Paribas’ Equity Derivative Sales team, where she led the multi-asset sales pod. Nina holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from NYU.</p>

Dr. Lester Coyle — Principal and Chief Investment Officer, III Capital Management. <p>Dr. Lester Coyle is a Principal and Chief Investment Officer, and he is also the portfolio manager for the III credit and asymmetric funds. Dr. Coyle joined III in February 2005 from Commerzbank where he was U.S. head of credit correlation trading. Prior to that, he worked at Bank One as a single name and correlation trader and as a credit model builder. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and a BA in Mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin. Dr. Coyle was also a Mathematics professor at Duke University and Loyola University.</p>

Guneet Dhingra — Managing Director, Head of US Rates Strategy, BNP Paribas. <p>Guneet Dhingra is a Managing Director and Head of US Rates Strategy, working in Markets360 – BNPP’s market strategy and economics division.<br /> His team covers US Treasuries, US swaps, inflation markets (TIPS), US money markets, and rates volatility – providing thought leadership and engagement with a wide array of BNPP’s clients. His team is responsible for trade ideas, and 10-year yield forecasts.</p> <p>Guneet was the Head of US Rates Strategy team at Morgan Stanley prior to joining BNPP in 2024. With 16 years of experience in US Rates, Guneet has built a market-leading franchise – well regarded among clients for macro insights, particularly on US Rates and US inflation.<br /> Guneet and his team consistently ranked in the top 3 teams in US Rates strategy in the Institutional Investor (II) survey among clients. Guneet was ranked the #1 analyst for US inflation (TIPS) for five consecutive years.</p> <p>He holds a CFA charter and is a graduate from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), India.</p>

Peter van Dooijeweert — Head of Strategic Investment Partnerships, Capstone Investment Advisors. <p>Peter van Dooijeweert joined Capstone in December 2024 as Head of Strategic Investment Partnerships. Prior to Capstone, Peter spent six years at Man Group where he was Head of Defensive and Tactical Alpha working closely with Man’s largest clients to design customized actively managed investment portfolios and strategies. Prior to Man, Peter spent over 15 years as a volatility arbitrage portfolio manager at Paloma Investments Partners, Soros Fund Management and Tudor Investment Corporation. Peter has served on investment and portfolio risk committees at Man and Paloma bringing over 25 years of experience in derivatives and alternatives to capital allocation and firm wide portfolio management decisions. He began his career with Goldman Sachs in Equity Derivatives Trading in Tokyo and<br /> New York.<br /> Peter holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Accounting and Finance from Wake Forest University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.</p>

George Evans — Managing Director, Aksia. <p>George is a Managing Director on the Hedge Funds team and has over 16 years of experience in alternative investments. He is responsible for sourcing, conducting investment research, and evaluating managers across relative value strategies. George also works with global investors focused on hedge funds, directing strategic portfolio construction, management, and providing customized investment decisions.</p> <p>Prior to joining Aksia in 2019, George was a Strategy Head focusing on global macro & trading strategies at UBP Asset Management where he was responsible for sourcing and due diligence across discretionary global macro, fixed income arbitrage and commodity strategies. Before that, George worked as a research analyst at Ermitage UK Ltd. where he focused mostly on long/short equity strategies in Europe.</p> <p>George graduated from Bayes Business School, City, University of London with a BS in Banking and International Finance. He is a CFA charterholder.</p>

Jens Foehrenbach — President and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Graham Capital . <p>Jens Foehrenbach, CFA, is the President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Graham Capital Management, L.P. (“Graham”), an alternative investment manager with approximately $20B AUM as of May 1, 2025. Mr. Foehrenbach jointly oversees and supervises Graham’s discretionary and systematic portfolio manager teams, trading, and research, alongside Pablo Calderini, Vice Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer.  Mr. Foehrenbach is also a member of the firm’s Executive, Investment, and Risk committees. Prior to joining Graham, he worked at Man Group from September 2008 to February 2025, most recently as Head of Public Markets within Discretionary Investments at Man Group.  Mr. Foehrenbach has served in several capacities for the Man Group during his tenure at the firm, including Chief Investment Officer of Man Solutions and Chief Investment Officer of Man FRM.  Prior to joining Man Group, Mr. Foehrenbach worked at Harcourt Investment Consulting AG as Senior Analyst and Head of Relative Value. Prior to Harcourt Investment Consulting AG, he was employed by UBS AG, where he worked on the bank’s fixed income derivatives trading desk in Switzerland and London. Jens Foehrenbach received a Master’s degree in Business Economics from the University of Basel, Switzerland in 2001.</p>

Claire Follezou — Managing Director, Equity Derivatives, Goldman Sachs . <p>Claire is a Managing Director in the Equity Derivatives structured sales team at Goldman Sachs where she particularly focuses on volatility RV, risk recycling and cross asset QIS. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2020 and prior to that was holding similar positions at Credit Suisse and Societe Generale.</p>

Alexis Maubourguet — Founder and Chief Investment Officer, ADAPT Investment Managers. <p>Alexis Maubourguet is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of ADAPT Investment Managers. Before establishing ADAPT Investment Managers, Alexis joined Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) in Geneva in November 2019, where he created the ADAPT strategy. Previously, Alexis served as a Volatility Portfolio Manager at Argentière Capital in Zug for over three years, where he launched and managed the firm’s Relative Value Opportunities fund. Prior to Argentière, he was a Portfolio Manager on the Global Emerging Markets and Macro Fund at BTG Pactual in London. Alexis also brings a decade of experience trading derivatives on the sell-side, having held key roles at JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank in New York and London.</p> <p>Alexis earned both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Economics and Applied Mathematics from the École Polytechnique in Paris. He also holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics in Finance from New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Alexis is a CFA Charterholder.</p>

Christopher Metli — Managing Director, Morgan Stanley. <p>Christopher Metli is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and heads the US Quantitative and Derivative Strategies team of the Institutional Equity Division. Chris focuses on market positioning, flows, crowded trades, the impact of systematic strategies, efficient use of options and volatility products, and general macro trends. He regularly comments on important market themes, and also conducts bespoke analysis for clients on derivative and quantitative topics. Chris joined the firm in 2004, starting in Equity Research before moving to the Institutional Equity Division in 2011. Prior to Morgan Stanley he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Chris is a CFA Charterholder with a BA in Economics from Yale University, and currently resides in Boston with his wife and two children.</p>

Giuseppe Nuti — Head of Agency Quantitative Research, UBS. <p>Giuseppe Nuti is the head of Machine Learning & AI for UBS’s Global Markets. The team is focused on a range of problems: from recommendation engines to optimal execution on behalf of UBS’s clients. The objective is to explore novel uses of ML in applications such as recommendations systems to match clients with specific UBS’s trading axes, anomaly detection for high-throughput, noisy systems, and optimal execution where venue micro-structure morphs order quality.<br /> Prior to this role, Giuseppe was an algorithmic trader at UBS – New York – specialized in fixed income and foreign exchange. He has worked as a trader for over eighteen years, initially in the interest-rates options and swaps market and, since 2006, in the European and US Government bond markets. He has experience working both within the primary dealer community and in the high-frequency environment (at KCG and Citadel.) At UBS, he has run the U.S. Rates Trading desk within FRC, with particular focus on electronic market-making.<br /> Giuseppe holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science with particular focus on Markov Decision Processes applied to finance from University College London and an MSc in financial mathematics from City University, London. He is an adjunct professor at Cornell where he teaches a course on ML applied to trading in FX, Rates & Crypto. Previously, he has taught various courses, including Financial Computing at UCL and has supervised a number of Ph.D. students – both at UCL and CASS Business School. His research interests are in algorithmic trading and Bayesian formulation of standard Machine Learning techniques.<br /> Giuseppe currently lives in Larchmont (NY) where he spends most of his free time enjoying his young family and dog.</p>

Paul Britton, OBE — Founder & CEO, Capstone Investment Advisors. <p>Paul Britton is the Chief Executive Officer of Capstone, one of the leading firms in derivatives and complementary strategies, which he founded in 2004. Headquartered in New York with 10 offices globally, Paul formed Capstone to offer investors access to, and exploit the inefficiencies present in, complex derivatives markets, creating value for the firm’s clients, team, and industry over two decades of growth.<br /> Paul’s philosophy of constant evolution and the firm’s store of unmatched talent are the twin pillars of Capstone’s success. The firm’s emphasis on enduring relationships with investors at all tiers, technology, analytics, and innovation, are priorities that Paul has developed and brought through to the present day. His career began in the pit with Saratoga Limited, where Paul traded options on the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) before co-founding Mako Global Derivatives in 1999. Throughout his career, Paul has embraced a global perspective, working across key financial centers including New York, London, and Amsterdam, and most recently Milan. Operating from this strategic European location allows Paul to remain the most accessible to our teams and clients worldwide.<br /> Paul currently serves on the Boards of the US Soccer Foundation, and The Tate America’s Foundation. Paul was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his dedication and notable philanthropic contributions to the Tate Americas Foundation.<br /> Paul received a BA in European Business Finance from London Metropolitan University.</p>

Kathleen Oplinger — Director, Equity Derivatives Sales | Global Markets, Bank of America . <p>Kathleen V Oplinger is a director in Equity Derivative Sales within Global Markets at Bank of America and is based in New York. She covers vol-focused, macro and long/short hedge funds for US equity derivative products including everything from vanilla options to exotic, hybrid and delta-one structures. Kathleen joined Bank of America in August 2016 as an analyst in Equity Derivatives and started her career at Société Générale via their apprenticeship program, working part-time on the equity trading floor in Paris while also studying for her master’s degree at Dauphine.</p> <p>Kathleen was born and raised in Paris, France and attended Dauphine University where she received a bachelor’s degree in economics in 2013 and a master’s degree in financial engineering in 2015.</p>

Sandy Poiré — Senior Portfolio Manager, Absolute Return, CN Investment Division. <p>Sandy Poiré is the Senior Portfolio Manager for the Absolute Return team at the CN Investment Division. In her current role, she is responsible for allocating to external managers for the hedge fund portfolio. Sandy joined the Division in 2011, initially working on the Divisions’ European, Asia-Pacific and Emerging Markets equity portfolios. Sandy graduated from the John Molson School of Business (Concordia University) with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and was the Valedictorian of her graduating class. She also received the Calvin Potter Fellowship from Concordia’s Kenneth Woods Portfolio Management Program. Sandy has been a CFA charterholder since 2014 and completed her Master’s in Business Administration at Queen’s University in 2017. Sandy is the president of the board of CFA Montreal. She is also an ally for FitSpirit, a Quebecbased organization dedicated to encourage teenage girls to stay physically active throughout their lives by creating unforgettable experiences for them.</p>

Razvan Remsing — Director of Investment Solutions, Aspect Capital. <p>Razvan joined Aspect Capital in July 2010 and is Director of Investment Solutions. Razvan is a member of Aspect’s Product Design Group and attends Investment Committee meetings. Razvan and his team are an integral part of the product development and research functions at Aspect and they provide quantitative expertise to Aspect’s clients on investment process and the development of new product ideas. Razvan’s primary responsibility is client engagement on matters relating to strategies, products, performance and research. Prior to Aspect, Razvan worked at Skybound Capital, Clear Horizon Capital, and PeregrineQuant (now Vunani Fund Managers) in various quantitative research roles. He graduated with distinctions in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Physics from Rhodes University. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Theoretical Physics from Wits University and was awarded an MSc in Financial Mathematics from the University of Cape Town and is a CFA Charter holder.</p>

Joy Seth — Senior Investment Officer, Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (PRIM). <p>Joy Seth, CFA, is a Senior Investment Officer at the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (PRIM), where he serves on the Portfolio Completion Strategies team, covering Stable Value Hedge Fund managers and overseeing the Emerging Manager Program. With over a decade of experience in quantitative finance, he previously worked as a Senior Investment Analyst at the Employees Retirement System of Texas, developing machine learning models and options-based strategies. Before that, Joy was a Software Engineer at Microsoft. He holds an MS in Computational Finance and Risk Management from the University of Washington and a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.</p>

Nick Smith — Head of Index Options Sales, Nasdaq. <p>Nick Smith leads Nasdaq-100 Index Options (NDX®) Sales at Nasdaq working with banks, funds, brokers, platforms and allocators to develop Nasdaq’s proprietary index options business.</p> <p>Originally from the Yorkshire Dales in England, Nick graduated from Aston Business School in Birmingham, England with Economics first class honors. Nick was active Royal Navy Reservist for 7 years, deployed at sea to the English Channel, Bay of Biscay, Irish Sea, Baltic Sea and Gibraltar. Nick also led his college unit of 50 sailors through military rifle, seamanship, and navigation training.</p> <p>Initially an analyst and latterly associate at Deutsche Boerse Group in London, Nick relocated to the USA in 2018 joining FIS (Sungard) before returning to Eurex (the derivatives exchange of Deutsche Boerse Group) as VP Sales. Now an American citizen and based in Miami FL, Nick enjoys boat days and plenty of golf.</p>

Dan Stone — Principal and Portfolio Manager, Ionic Capital Management. <p>Dan Stone is a co-founder of Ionic Capital Management LLC, where he manages the firm’s interest rate, currency, and credit strategies. He has over 25 years of experience in managing relative value arbitrage and long volatility strategies across multiple asset classes. Stone was previously a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager in the US and European Volatility and Credit Arbitrage Group at Highbridge Capital Management. He earned an AB in Economics magna cum laude from Harvard College.</p>

Boaz Weinstein — Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Saba Capital Management. <p>Boaz Weinstein is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Saba Capital Management, L.P. (“Saba”), a $5.9 billion hedge fund manager focused on credit relative value strategies, based in New York City.  Saba was founded in 2009 as a lift-out of the Deutsche Bank (“DB”) proprietary credit trading group. At Saba, Mr. Weinstein leads a team of 75 professionals.</p> <p>In 2021, Risk.net named Saba as Hedge Fund of the Year. Saba’s closed-end fund activism strategy also earned it recognition as the Activist Hedge Fund Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor in 2023 and 2024.</p> <p>Previously, Mr. Weinstein worked at DB for eleven years, the last eight years as Managing Director (a title he achieved at age 27). Throughout his career, Mr. Weinstein had responsibility for proprietary trading and market making. In 2008, he became Co-Head of Global Credit Trading, overseeing 650 investment professionals.</p> <p>Mr. Weinstein graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a BA in Philosophy. He achieved the title of National Master in chess at age 16.</p>