Michele Aghassi is a Principal at AQR Capital Management, where she serves as a portfolio manager for the firm's equity strategies. Throughout her tenure at AQR, she has been a leader in research and strategy development, contributing to the advancement of the stock selection investment process. She played a key role in launching the firm’s emerging equities strategy in 2008 and developed the proprietary robust optimization technology that AQR uses to build portfolios. In addition to her responsibilities at AQR, she serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of Portfolio Management. Earlier in her career, Michele worked as a quantitative analyst in the proprietary equities department of D.E. Shaw & Co. Michele graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a B.Sc. in applied mathematics and subsequently earned a Ph.D. in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and an MIT Presidential Graduate Fellow.

Ms. Yavuz is Managing Director and was the co-head of GSAM’s Emerging Markets Equity team and a portfolio manager for GSAM’s Emerging Markets Equity. Ms. Yavuz joined the Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P in September 2011 from HSBC Asset Management, where she spent three and half years as a portfolio manager for frontier markets. Prior to joining HSBC, she was a research analyst at AllianceBernstein in London from 2001 to 2008.

Brandon Pizzurro serves as Chief Investment Officer over all investment-related lines of business within GuideStone. In this capacity, he serves as President of both GuideStone Capital Management, LLC (“GSCM”), the investment adviser to GuideStone Funds, and GuideStone Investment Services (“GSIS”), which provides investment advisory services to nonprofit institutions. He is also an Interested Director of the Board of Directors of GuideStone Funds. Mr. Pizzurro is a member of the executive leadership team for the parent company, GuideStone, and chairs both the organization’s Committee on Faith-Based Investing, which directs GuideStone’s faith-based research efforts, as well as the Investment Committees of GSIS and GSCM, which approve all new investments for use on the GuideStone platform. Mr. Pizzurro joined GuideStone in 2017 and most recently served as Director of Public Investments, where he led the public markets complex in overseeing all aspects of the management of the GuideStone Funds lineup of registered mutual funds. Prior to assuming his responsibilities at GuideStone, Mr. Pizzurro spent 13 years in roles of increasing investment responsibility and scope at First Command Financial Services, 1st Global and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Pizzurro holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance and Real Estate from Baylor University. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certificant and a member of both the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Dallas/Fort Worth.

Philippe is a Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Emerging Markets Equities at RBC GAM UK. He has worked in the investment industry since 1992 and joined the firm in 2009 to establish and lead the team that manages the emerging markets equity strategies. Prior to RBC, Philippe was Head of Global Emerging Markets with a large asset management firm Philippe holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Manchester and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Dr. Asness is a Founder, Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer at AQR Capital Management. He is an research notable for its relevance and enduring value to investment professionals. Prior to co-founding AQR Capital Management, he was a Managing Director and Director of Quantitative Research for the Asset Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Dr. Asness is on the editorial board of The Journal of Portfolio Management, the governing board of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Finance at NYU, the Board of Directors of the Q-Group.

John J. Huss, Principal, rejoined AQR in 2013 and oversees multi-asset class strategies as a researcher and portfolio manager. Mr. Huss rejoined the AQR Capital Management in 2013 and is a portfolio manager for the firm’s World Allocation strategy where he focuses on macroeconomic and portfolio construction research for risk parity and other asset allocation strategies. Prior to rejoining the firm, where he first worked from 2004 to 2008, Mr. Huss was a vice president in RBC’s Global Arbitrage and Trading division and a systematic portfolio manager for Tudor Investment Corp. Mr. Huss earned a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jennifer is responsible for providing oversight to the Centralized Portfolio Management (CPM), Global Equity, Institutional CPM and Large Case Custom Core Portfolio Management teams. Prior to her current role, she was responsible for leading the CPM Portfolio Management team. Before joining Parametric in 2005, she was an investment associate at Merrill Lynch.

Gordon is primarily responsible for overseeing portfolio management for the Custom Core Equity product. Prior to joining Parametric in 2004, he led the investment manager due diligence effort for an institutional investment consulting group within UBS Financial Services.