Q: What motivated you to found the company?

During the unfolding financial crisis in 2008, we realized we had developed a significant edge: Having collectively worked for a combined 80 years on quantitative trading strategies and on the technology necessary to implement them successfully, we were fully equipped to create our own, custom-made setup to serve clients.

- Michael Botlo, Co-Founder




Q: Just how global are you, is it just the offices?

One of the first things you learn managing investments is that diversification is critically important to success. We knew from day one that we needed to design, develop and deploy models across the global markets. To ensure we could effectively manage this global trading, we set up offices in New York, London and Hong Kong, each run by experienced locals. Collectively, these local teams work as one global team to ensure a quant based anywhere in the world can have her strategy trade 24 hours a day while she works on new research. For us, being global is more than just operational excellence, our collegial model means we actually talk to each other and share ideas (while open communications may seem obvious to most people, in the quant trading world we’ve found it to be pretty unusual). Having a diverse, global team of quantitative thinkers means the quality of the ideas we discuss is substantially better than if we were all just sitting together on Wall Street.

- Paul White, Co-Founder




Q: How does Quantbot keep itself competitive in a market increasingly saturated with ‘quant shops’ and investment advisors?

Our founding partners have been running quant businesses together for almost 20 years. In order to survive and prosper over such a long period of time, we have developed a very strong business process that we use to drive our investment program. The process allows us to rapidly evaluate new ideas and move the good ones into successful strategies whilst controlling operational and investment risk. So, while ideas and techniques may, and indeed do, change over time, our overall approach does not, which ensures we can stay competitive with new market participants.

- Paul White, Co-Founder




Q: What vision do you have for Quantbot moving forward?

Our constant goal is to heavily invest in research and infrastructure. For instance, when we started Quantbot, we had nobody to focus on using machine learning for alpha generation. It took us a few years to find the right talent to join us. Once we did, we guided them through our methods and set-up and slowly had them contribute to this new innovation that is needed to be competitive. Same holds true for our focus on sourcing new and potentially interesting but unproven datasets or our increased focus on computing-on-demand capabilities. We are, after all, at heart, a research and technology company.

- Michael Botlo, Co-Founder

Paul White

Paul White

Co-founder and CEO
Quantbot Technologies, LP

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Ashar Mahboob

Ashar Mahboob

Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer
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Michael Lisak

Michael Lisak

Co-founder and Managing Partner
Quantbot Technologies, LP

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Paul White

Rohit Thakare

Chief Trading Officer
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Ashar Mahboob

Ben Cilia

Chief Data Officer
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Michael Lisak

Thomas Crimi

Chief Technology Officer
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Thuong Lam

Thuong Lam

Partner and Managing Director, London Office
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Johnson Wu

Johnson Wu

Partner and Managing Director, Hong Kong Office
Quantbot Technologies (HK), Limited

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Debra Wisdom Spielfogel

Debra Wisdom-Spielfogel, Esq.

General Counsel and CCO
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Advisory Board

Michael Botlo

Dr. Michael Botlo

Co-founder and Former CEO
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