LEADERSHIP

prof. MARCOS LÓPEZ DE prADO, OMC

Marcos López de Prado is a hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, inventor, and Cornell professor. Over the past 25 years, he has helped modernize finance by pioneering machine learning and statistical inference methods that are now widely adopted at some of the largest investment corporations. The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) ranks him among the 10 most-read authors in Economics, and the U.S. Congress has invited him to testify on AI policy. His contributions have earned him several scientific, state, and industry awards, including the National Award for Academic Excellence (1999) from the Kingdom of Spain, the Quant Researcher of the Year Award (2019) from Portfolio Management Research, the Buy-Side Quant of the Year Award (2021) from Risk.net, and the Bernstein Fabozzi / Jacobs Levy Award (2024) from The Journal of Portfolio Management. In 2024, His Majesty King Felipe VI and the Government of Spain appointed him Knight Officer of the Royal Order of Civil Merit (OMC), "for distinguished services to science and the global investment industry."

Prof. López de Prado currently serves as Global Head of Quantitative R&D at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), one of the largest sovereign wealth funds, and is a founding board member of ADIA Lab, Abu Dhabi's center for research in data and computational sciences. Before ADIA, he founded True Positive Technologies LP (TPT), a firm that researches and develops investment IP. TPT has advised clients with a combined AUM in excess of $1 trillion, and has licensed and sold several patents to some of the largest investment funds in 8-figure dollar deals. Before TPT, he was a Partner and the first Head of Machine Learning at AQR Capital Management. As a Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners, he also founded and led its Quantitative Investment Strategies business, where he managed $13 billion in assets, and delivered an audited risk-adjusted return (information ratio) of 2.3.

Concurrently with the management of multibillion-dollar funds, since 2011 Prof. López de Prado has been a research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science). He has published approximately 100 scientific articles on financial machine learning and statistical inference in the leading academic journals, is a founding co-editor of The Journal of Financial Data Science, and the author of several influential graduate textbooks, including Advances in Financial Machine Learning (Wiley, 2018), Machine Learning for Asset Managers (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Causal Factor Investing (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He earned a PhD in financial econometrics (2003), and a second PhD in mathematical finance (2011) from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He completed his post-doctoral research at Harvard University and Cornell University, where he has been a professor since 2015. He has an Erdős #2 (via Neil Calkin) and an Einstein #4 according to the American Mathematical Society.

KRISTIN BOGGIANO

Kristin Boggiano is a member of TPT’s executive team, and an adviser to the firm’s board.  Prior to TPT, Kristin was a Managing Director with Guggenheim Partners, where she built the operational and legal platforms for Quantitative Investment Strategies. Kristin also produced regulatory reports for Guggenheim’s Executive Committee on regulations that would have a material impact on Guggenheim’s asset management, insurance and broker-dealer arms, coordinating with regulators in Washington DC. Kristin has been actively involved in the rule making process domestically and internationally throughout her career.  Kristin is a regular lecturer at universities, trade organizations, and other forums and writes articles about a variety of financial and regulatory law topics. She is an investor and advisor to multiple start-up entities. 

Kristin was also Special Counsel at Schulte Roth & Zabel, where she structured complex financial products, launched private businesses, and provided regulatory advice (from the start-up managers to managers with a trillion plus in assets). She also worked at Merrill Lynch on the derivatives desk structuring credit and equity products, beginning her career with roles at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).

Kristin is also the founder of Women in Derivatives, Inc. (WIND), a global non-profit with more than 6,000 members and a mission to educate and develop women leaders. She earned her law degree and M.B.A. from Northeastern University and her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.