Russell Shtern is a portfolio manager with the Voya Machine Intelligence (VMI) team at Voya Investment Management. Prior to joining Voya, he was a senior portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton, managing smart beta and active multi-factor equity strategies. Prior to that, Russell worked at QS Investors (a Legg Mason affiliate) as head of equity portfolio management and trading. Previously, he was a lead portfolio manager with the diversification based investing equity and tax managed equity strategies at Deutsche AM Quantitative Strategies group. Russell earned a BBA with honors in finance and a minor in economics from Pace University. He is a CFA® Charterholder

Mr. de Boer, Portfolio Manager, managing director and head of systematic equities at Voya UK, joined Voya UK in 2019 and is responsible for overseeing the firm’s quantitative equity research agenda. Previously at Voya IM (2019-2023), he was director of quantitative equity. Prior to joining Voya IM, he was a senior research analyst for quantitative strategies for Invesco (2017-2019). Prior to that, he was a research analyst for global quantitative equities at QS and before that he was with ING Investment Management, Voya’s predecessor firm.

Kai Yee Wong is a portfolio manager on the quantitative equity team at Voya Investment Management responsible for the index, research enhanced index and smart beta strategies. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a senior equity portfolio manager at Northern Trust responsible for managing various global indices including developed, emerging, real estate. Prior to that, Kai Yee was a portfolio manager with Deutsche Bank. Previously, she held roles with Bankers Trust and Bank of Tokyo. Kai Yee earned a BS from New York University Stern School of Business.