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David Dredge

Chief Investment Officer
Convex Strategies Pte Ltd

Convex Strategies is an alternative investment manager, headquartered and licensed in Singapore, that specializes in superior risk mitigating solutions. Our investment philosophy centres around providing our investors with value and efficiency in their defensive allocations, with expectations of positive compounded returns across a complete investment cycle.

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Euan Sinclair
Portfolio Manager
Hull Tactical Asset Allocation

Euan Sinclair is the senior financial engineer at Hull Tactical Asset Allocation responsible for the research and implementation of volatility strategies.

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Scott Maidel
Head of Hedge Funds Business
QVR Advisors

Scott Maidel is a Cboe RMC veteran and 15-year derivatives research and trading veteran overseeing all business aspects and research content at QVR.

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Dave Mazza
Chief Executive Officer
Roundhill Investments

Dave is the Chief Executive Officer at Roundhill Investments. A well-known thought leader within the ETF industry, Dave frequently appears in the financial media, including CNBC and Bloomberg.

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Chris Hausman
Senior Portfolio Manager
Swan Global Investments

Swan Global Investments offers diversified, hedged equity solutions to help institutional investors and high net worth individuals address market challenges and meet long-term goals.

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Cem Karsan
Founder, CIO & Managing Principal
Kai Volatility Advisors

Cem Karsan is an esteemed volatility trader, derivatives expert and founder of Kai Volatility Advisors.

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Ken Kwalik
Managing Partner
Carrick Lane

Ken is a seasoned equity derivative portfolio manager and Managing Partner at Carrick Lane, which offers actively managed options overlays.

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Megan Miller
Head of Options
Allspring Global Investments

Megan Miller is Head of Options for Allspring’s Systematic Edge team and lead Portfolio Manager for all of Allspring’s options strategies.

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Devin Anderson
CEO & Co-Founder
Convexitas

Convexitas was founded to empower advisors, families, and institutions with hedge fund quality discretionary options strategies with accessible account minimums.

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Jon Havice
Chief Investment Officer
DGV Solutions

DGV develops and optimizes unique strategies in liquid markets and executes them systematically. We focus on improving returns, while reducing volatility and correlation to traditional asset classes.

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Grant Jaffarian
Portfolio Manager
Crabel Capital Management

Portfolio Manager to Crabel’s Advanced Trend Portfolio with additional research and leadership responsibilities across all other firm offerings.

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Nicholas Leeper
Managing Principal
RJA Asset Management LLC

Nick is the lead portfolio manager and trader for RJA funds and overlay solutions.

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Zachary Bouck
Managing Principal & CIO
Denver Wealth Management, Inc.

Zachary has a passion for providing specialized plans for clients. Whether through financial planning, retirement planning or portfolio management, he brings an authentic and well-rounded mindset.

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David Dredge
Chief Investment Officer
Convex Strategies Pte Ltd

Provision of superior risk mitigating solutions via long volatility portfolios.

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Yannis Couletsis
Principal
Credence Capital Management

Hedge fund manager with a strong focus on equity volatility.

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Patrick Kazley
Solutions Portfolio Manager
One River Asset Management

One River Asset Management is an innovative investment manager dedicated to providing global allocators with diversifying strategies, with a focus on liquid risk mitigation and alpha strategies.

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Noel Smith
Chief Investment Officer
Convex Asset Management

Institutional Investor. Founder of Chicago-based Options Market-Making, Prop Trading and HFT firms at the CBOE and CME.

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Eren Biri
Founder & CIO
OneEye Capital

Eren is specialized in volatility and relative value trading with a focus on equity derivatives.

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Joseph Cusick
SVP, Portfolio Manager/Specialist
Calamos Investments

Joe is responsible for executing and communicating our investment process, positioning, and risk attribution to clients.

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Eric Metz
President, Chief Investment Officer
SpiderRock Advisors

Asset Manager, exclusively providing customized listed derivatives strategies and solutions for Financial Advisors, Consultants and Institutions.

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Keith Decarlucci
CIO of Macro Strategies
Melqart Asset Management (UK) Ltd

The Melqart KEAL Macro strategy is a discretionary macro product that expresses macro views with asymmetric payoffs to target absolute returns with controlled volatility.

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Nate Newlin
Portfolio Manager
Gladius Capital Management

A PM at Gladius Capital Management, Nate has over 20 years of global derivative trading and risk management experience across asset classes, drawn from top-tier institutions across the industry.

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