Alex Gerasev

Alex Gerasev EXPERIENCE QUANTERRA ADVISORS, Chicago, IL 02/2010 - present Managing Director • Responsible for ongoing hedge fund operations, trading, and risk management • Oversee a group of traders and quants working on delivery of highly quantitative profitable trading models BUTTONWOOD GROUP TRADING, Chicago, IL 05/2011 - 12/2012 Senior Trader (account managed by Quanterra Advisors) • Successfully implemented and executed quantitative trading models that delivered annualized return in excess of 45% • Responsible for all aspects of day-to-day trading and risk management on a long/short equities book of up to $50 million exposure THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, New York, NY 01/2007 - 12/2010 Senior Project Manager • As part of the Global Banking & Markets unit, oversaw implementation of complex business and technology solutions in many of the bank's mission-critical areas including liquidity management system with over $400 billion in daily volume • Successfully executed four major projects 100% on time and within budget ABN AMRO, Chicago, United States 2002-2007 Team Lead • Worked in some of the bank's most mission-critical business areas and applications including ABN AMRO Trade Desk Risk Mana ement Group, ABN AMRO GlobalTrade trade finance system, and retail and commercial banking platforms, ABN AMRO MTS funds transfer system. • Collaborated with Senior Vice President and Executive Vice President level managers; supervised teams of up to 30 people. MOTOROLA, Munchen, Germany 2001-2002 Software Developer • Designed and developed high-performance, low-latency software application to streamline Motorola's internal information flows in 16 Technical Information Centers worldwide. EDUCATION THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 2010 Master of Science in Financial Mathematics NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY, Novosibirsk, Russia 2001 Bachelor of Science in Physics & Information Technologies EFTA00590200