Ryan Preclaw

Ryan Preclaw is a highly experienced finance professional currently serving as Managing Director and Global Head of Investment Sciences at Barclays since January 2022, and has been with Barclays Investment Bank since January 2014 as Head of Investment Sciences. In this role, Ryan directs a global team that leverages alternative data and advanced empirical methods to produce investment research. Notable achievements include extracting equities signal value, developing factor optimization models, and successfully predicting CarMax's quarterly revenue using web-scraped data, yielding significant excess returns compared to the S&P 500. Previous roles include Director and Vice President in Credit Strategy at Barclays, and an Associate at both Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers. Ryan's educational credentials include an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a CFA from the CFA Institute, and degrees in Economics from Western University and the University of Alberta.