Raffi Valijan

Raffi Valijan has extensive work experience in the finance industry. Raffi started their career in 2005 as an Associate at Morgan Stanley, where they worked as a Quantitative Developer in Fixed Income Technology until 2010. Raffi then joined Barclays Investment Bank as a Trader in Rates Exotics, specializing in Rates Structured Notes and Exotic Interest Rate Swaps. Afterward, they moved to AQR Capital Management in 2014, serving as a Portfolio Manager for Global Stock Selection until 2016. At Morgan Stanley, they worked as a Vice President in Quantitative Investment Strategies, focusing on alpha signal research, factor and portfolio construction, and optimization in global equities, rates, and FX markets from 2016 to 2018. Following that, Raffi worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch as a Vice President in Quantitative Investment Strategies within Equities Sales & Trading. In 2019, they joined Third Point LLC as a Vice President in Data Science, and later was promoted to the role of Director of Quantitative Analysis/Risk, where they led R&D efforts in factor/macro models for equities and cross-asset portfolio risk modeling. Currently, they hold the position of Director at Central Risk in Walleye Capital since 2023.

Raffi Valijan received their high school education at Horace Greeley High School from 1997 to 2001. Raffi then attended Cornell University from 2001 to 2005, where they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the College of Engineering. After working for several years, Raffi Valijan enrolled at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth from 2010 to 2012 for a full-time MBA degree.