● Entrepreneurial: Structured complex business deals, generated new sales, developed novel products, services and technologies; a patent issued 6/16/2020; 225,000+ LinkedIn followers. ● Finance: 23+ years of experience in finance. ● Finance: Built Quantigic® Risk Model. ● Finance: ...more

● Entrepreneurial: Structured complex business deals, generated new sales, developed novel products, services and technologies; a patent issued 6/16/2020; 225,000+ LinkedIn followers. ● Finance: 23+ years of experience in finance. ● Finance: Built Quantigic® Risk Model. ● Finance: Oversaw/coordinated development of and built trade execution systems for high frequency Statistical Arbitrage and Index Arbitrage strategies. ● Finance: Built and traded high return/Sharpe ratio strategies. ● Finance: Ex-Series 3/7/24/55/63. ● Finance: Published 45 papers and the book "151 Trading Strategies" (English and Spanish editions). ● Academia: Ph.D. in physics; published 87 papers in string theory, elementary particle phenomenology, mathematical physics and other areas of theoretical physics; solved important longstanding problems. ● Academia: Taught advanced MS/MBA+ quant finance course "Mean-Reversion and Optimization"; advanced PhD courses "Phynance" (derivatives pricing), "Brane World" and "String Theory". ● Academia: Gave 100+ presentations at leading financial institutions, scientific conferences/workshops and universities in the U.S. and overseas. ● Academia: Full Professor, Business School & School of Physics, Free University of Tbilisi. ● Academia: 347,700+ SSRN downloads starting Apr 2014 (highest 12-mo rank #3, current all-time rank #15 out of 1,600,000+ authors across 70 disciplines over SSRN’s 30+ yrs), a paper with 107,000+ SSRN downloads; 4,000+ citations (1 paper with 300+ citations, 1 paper with 200+ citations, 7 papers with 100+ citations, 15 papers with 50+ citations, h-index 30+ per Publish or Perish using Google Scholar); 1 book in finance (English and Spanish editions); 141 papers (88 in theoretical physics, 45 in finance, 4 in cancer research/computational biology, 4 in other fields). Specialties: ● Structuring complex deals ● Contract negotiation, drafting and closing ● Business and product development ● Quantitative analyses ● Problem solvingless