Ashar Mahboob

Mr. Mahboob is a co-founder and the Chief Investment Officer of Quantbot technologies, LP. Before co-founding Quantbot, he was co-head of Merrill Lynch's statistical arbitrage proprietary trading group (QSA), as an original founding member of QSA, he was responsible for creating a new global business from scratch. Before joining Merrill, Ashar was a senior member of Morgan Stanley's Equity Trading Lab (ETL) proprietary trading group, responsible for developing statistical arbitrage black box automated trading strategies. Prior to ETL, Ashar worked in quantitative developer roles at Bank of America Securities and Fuji Capital Markets in New York. Ashar holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and MS degree in Computational Finance.