Dr. Zura Kakushadze

Dr. Zura Kakushadze

Dr. Zura Kakushadze Quantigic® Solutions LLC USA  

Biography
Vynance® Technologies, LLC d/b/a Quantigic® Solutions LLC is a Tennessee limited liability company.Dr. Zura Kakushadze built Quantigic® Risk Model based on many years of experience in academia and quantitative trading and is a Co-Founder of Quantigic® Solutions LLC. Zura earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University, was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, and an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University. After a successful academic career, Zura ventured into quantitative finance first as a consultant at Automated Trading Desk (intraday strategies), and then as Associate/VP/Director at RBC Capital Markets Corporation (statistical arbitrage, index arbitrage, executions) and Managing Director at WorldQuant, LLC (high frequency trading system for statistical arbitrage). In early 2008, Zura ventured into the entrepreneurial realm, was Executive Vice President and member of Revere Data, LLC and currently is President and member of Quantigic® Solutions LLC. Zura has over 11 years of experience in quantitative finance, has published 78 scientific papers (string theory, phenomenology and other areas of theoretical physics), supervised Ph.D. students and received various honors/awards, including Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (2001).
Research Interest
Theoretical Physics, Quantitative finance, Capital Markets Corporation, Trading system