Harish Neelakandan

With 3 decades of experience in foreign exchange, global managed futures, and options, Harish Neelakandan is Co-Chief Investment Officer at AlpheEngine Global Investment Solutions, a quantitative investment firm which serves pension funds, endowments, insurance and OCIO clients. Prior to joining AlphaEngine, Harish was Portfolio Manager & Head of Options at Campbell & Co., where he established the firm’s systematic volatility business and helped run a quantitative global macro portfolio of FX, fixed income, equity and commodity indices. Harish started as an FX options trader at Merrill Lynch before moving over to the buy-side to work at hedge funds Caxton and FX Concepts. In his current role, Harish oversees investment research, day-to-day portfolio management, trade execution, risk management and client interfacing. He is also a Part-time Adjunct Faculty at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business where he teaches a Graduate Financial Engineering course. He has an undergraduate degree in Engineering and graduate degrees in Computer Science and Finance.