Kharen Musaelian

Dr. Kharen Musaelian is the President / CIO and Co-Founder of Duality Group. Beginning in 1995, Kharen served in various portfolio management and investment research roles in the Proprietary Positioning Business of JP Morgan; managed multi-billion dollar investment portfolios and headed businesses at Merrill Lynch and BlueCrest Capital Management. By the age of 15, Kharen won a Gold Medal and two Bronze Medals at the Math and Physics Olympiads of the Soviet Union as well as Gold Medals for both Math and Physics National Olympiads of Armenia for three years in a row. In 2016, Kharen shared the Risk.net Buy-Side Quant of the Year Award. Kharen holds a PhD in theoretical physics from University of Rhode Island and MS / BS degrees in theoretical physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (PhysTech).