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QuantZ Capital hires consultants Fred Kautz and Prof Uwe Wystup

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

QuantZ Capital Management, the New York based firm founded by Wall Street veteran Milind Sharma and currently in the process of prepping its first fund has added 2 senior advisors to its team. Opalesque has learned that Fred Kautz and Prof Uwe Wystup will work with QuantZ in consultant roles.

Kautz is Managing Partner and co-founder of Risk Networks LLC. He has more than 27 years of quantitative, technology, and project experience from Deutsche Bank, Deloitte & Touche, Capco, Kedestra and Charles River Associates. He holds Nuc.E. and M.S. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from MIT as well as an M.S. in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business. Fred held a number of leadership positions as a staff scientist at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory for 10 years and at the CIA for 9 years.

Prof Wystup is Founder & MD of MathFinance AG. He is also a Professor of Quantitative Finance at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and was a visiting professor (Fulbright) at Carnegie Mellon University. He was one of the first to ever receive a PhD in financial engineering from the pioneering PhD program at Carnegie Mellon. His 18 years of experience in the financial industry include stints at Commerzbank, Deutsche, Citibank, Sal Oppenheim & UBS across structured products and derivatives. He has several dozen publications in the top industry & academic journals in addition to four books and over 50 conference talks. Corporate website:......................

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