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Our team is comprised of ex portfolio managers, quantitative analysts, data scientists, software engineers and designers.
CEO
Kevin Becker
Kevin Becker serves as the co-founder and CEO of Kiski. Before founding Kiski, Kevin was CIO of Duff Capital Advisors after founding and managing Claiborne Capital Group, a long/short equity hedge fund, where he served as both CEO and CIO.
Before launching Claiborne, Kevin was a Managing Director at SAC Capital Management, where he managed a long/short equity portfolio and co-developed SAC’s European business.
He joined SAC from Tiger Management, where as Managing Director he was responsible for Tiger’s public equities portfolio in the industrials and cyclicals sectors. Kevin began his career at Morgan Stanley. He earned a BA from the University of Notre Dame, with majors in the Great Books Program and Computer Applications.
Committed to independent asset management as legitimate sources of alpha.
Justin Wunderlich is responsible for implementation of our risk and analytics suite of services. Prior to Kiski, Justin served as Managing Director in the Investment Strategy Group of Duff Capital Advisors.
Prior to Duff, he founded JCW Strategies LLC, a macro strategy firm advising investment managers with a combined $6 billion in assets under advisory. In conjunction with his clients, he developed fundamental and technical analytical tools that aided in the evaluation of a manager's investment process.
Previously, Justin worked as a Senior Analyst at Claiborne Capital Group, where he generated long and short ideas for the long/short equity hedge fund. Justin began his investment career at Gruntal & Co, where he served as an associate in the technical strategy group.
HEAD OF ANALYTICS
Ding Ding
Before joining Kiski, Ding worked at Taikang Life Insurance Company as part of the risk management and product design team. Prior to that, she was with Deutsche Boerse, where she served as an analyst on the IPO team.
In these roles, Ding has worked quantitatively with equities, fixed income, and insurance products. Ding has an M.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University. She earned both B.Com and M.Com in Actuarial Studies from Macquarie University in Australia. She is a candidate of the associate of the Society of Actuaries.
Boris Paucinac is responsible for conducting market research, identifying new market opportunities and for developing marketable software solutions from concept to distribution.Prior to joining Kiski, Boris was at BlackRock Investment Management.
During his 13-year tenure a BlackRock, Boris performed various functions within their fixed income department, from portfolio management, product strategy and business development to data science.
Boris earned a master’s degree in international economics from Columbia University and received a BA in Finance from Ramapo College of NJ.
Prior to joining Kiski, Kevin served as the Founder and CTO of Sidusa Systems, Inc a software architecture and consulting firm that helps both startups and enterprises build new and cutting-edge technology.
Through Sidusa, Kevin has served as Chief Architect on several notable platforms including Reuters Insider which is now part of Refinitiv Eikon, and the award winning HuffPost Live platform. Kevin also served as one of the founding team members of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp where he served as chief quantitative analyst.
Prior to his stint at Farmer Mac, Kevin worked as a quantitative analyst at both Prudential Investment Corp and PaineWebber (UBS). Kevin earned a BSE from Princeton University with a major in Engineering Management Systems / Information & Decision Sciences with a heavy focus on of Financial Markets and Trading Strategies.
Jon Orvik is the Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel. For three decades, Jon has worked in the areas of banking, operations, finance, accounting and legal in senior positions at hedge funds and major financial institutions including Apollo Management, Citigroup, and National Australia Bank.
He began his career in tax and accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Jon received his B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and holds a JD from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business.