

Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan’s 2022 Future Of Finance Conference Speaker Profile: Javed Ashraf Co-Lead Portfolio Manager Blackbox Alpha Management
Mr. Ashraf’s extensive 25 year market experience spans heading research in quantitative credit relative value, heading research & trading in systematic equities and the Managing Director of trading quants in FICC & equities for the Americas at UBS. His research focus is alpha capture in periods of opaque price discovery and synthesis of market drivers in both US & International markets.
Javed’s quantitative trading career highlights include navigating the London “Whale Trade” & the Flat Crash of 2010 & 2015. He earned a BEng. In Computer Engineering from Salford University, an MBA Finance, from City University & an M.Sc. Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago. Javed is Co-Lead Portfolio Manager of BlackBox Unlimited Alpha Fund.