Roni Israelov

chief investment officer and president, NDVR

Roni serves as chief investment officer and president at NDVR. He is responsible for managing the quantitative research team and overall corporate strategy. Previously, Roni served as principal at AQR Capital Management, a global quantitative investment management firm serving both institutional and retail clients. Over 11 years at AQR, Roni’s responsibilities included building and overseeing AQR’s options-oriented strategies and overseeing the portfolio implementation research of AQR’s equity strategies. His research has been published in leading journals, including the Financial Analysts Journal and the Journal of Portfolio Management. He is a member of the editorial board for The Journal of Alternative Investments. Roni has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Mathematical Risk Management from Georgia State University, and a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Carnegie Mellon University.