Susanna Jacob
quantitative strategist, Voya Investment Management
Susanna Jacob is a quantitative strategist in the multi-asset strategies and solutions (MASS) group at Voya Investment Management. She is responsible for research and design of systematic strategies within Voya Enhanced Risk Premia Portfolio (VERA), portable alpha and other quantitative solutions. Prior to joining the firm, Susanna was part of the startup investment team at Quadratic Capital founded as a multi-asset absolute return global macro strategy. Before joining Quadratic Capital, Susanna worked at BlackRock as a director where her responsibilities included systematic trading processes, leveraging high frequency insights and contributing to innovative quantitative research. Prior to that, she worked at Citadel developing and enhancing research and implementation of derivatives trading strategies and at Goldman Sachs where she helped transform the quantitative efforts in Goldman Sachs’ algorithmic trading for institutional investors.
Susanna holds an MBA in finance from New York University. She also holds a Bachelor of Engineering in instrumentation technology from the University of Mysore (India), where she passed with honors and was ranked 2nd in the University.