Milind Sharma

CEO QuantZ / QMIT

Milind Sharma’s 27 years of market experience span running prop desks at Deutsche Bank (Saba unit) & RBC as well as hedge funds (QuantZ) & mutual funds (MLIM). His funds have won many awards over the years including those from Morningstar, Lipper, WSJ, Battle of the Quants & BattleFin. He was also a founding member of Quant Strategies at Merrill on the buyside (now BlackRock) and Manager of the Risk Analytics and Research Group at Ernst & Young where he was co-architect of Raven TM. His QMIT entity has been a pioneer in applying ML to factor investing. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Investment Management, Risk, Elsevier, World Scientific, Wiley etc. His educational background includes Oxford, Vassar, Carnegie Mellon & Wharton. He has guest-lectured and/ or taught Capstone courses at Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, UCLA, UCSD etc. He is founder & President of the quant society.