Damian Handzy

Damian heads Confluence’s Analytics Division, responsible for the strategy and execution of its performance, risk and analytics product offerings. He brings 26 years of experience in FinTech analytics, having worked with hundreds of Wall Street’s most successful investment managers in risk management, performance attribution and factor analysis. Previously, Damian has held product and commercial executive roles with Investment Metrics, Style Analytics and StatPro. He co-founded Investor Analytics in 1999 as Wall Street’s first cloud-based, multi-asset risk provider and served as that company’s CEO until he sold it to StatPro in 2016 and became their Global Head of Risk.

Damian received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Math and Physics, and his Ph.D. in nuclear astrophysics while working on correlation functions at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University.