Dr. Mendel Fygenson, Portfolio Manager at Vericimetry. Dr. Fygenson is also the Co-Chief Investment Officer and an Elected Manager of Vericimetry.Dr. Fygenson has been Chief Investment Officer and an Elected Manager of Vericimetry since 2014, and he has been Chief Executive Officer of Vericimetry since April 2016. Dr. Fygenson is a Data Scientist specializing in advanced analytical methods and complex datasets. He has more than 25 years of experience creating targeting/trading strategies, predictive models and data structure algorithms for the digital media and investment industries. Since 1996 he has been a tenured faculty member of the department of Data Sciences and Operations at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Dr. Fygenson’s research has been published in leading scientific journals; he has given numerous invited talks around the world and has served multiple times as an expert panelist for the National Science Foundation in the Mathematics and the Social Sciences divisions. Dr. Fygenson holds a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan and a M.A. in Statistics from SUNY Buffalo. He earned his B.S. summa cum laude in Statistics and B.A. summa cum laude in Philosophy from Haifa University, Israel.

Dr. Plat holds a Ph.D. in International Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz, an MBA from the Olin School at Washington University in St. Louis, and a BS in Earth Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz. From May 2010 to March 2016, he served as Vice President for Morgan Stanley, managing business unit risk for Morgan Stanley’s Private Banking Group. He has worked extensively with investment strategies as a portfolio manager for large bank portfolios across various asset classes, and has served as a fixed income and credit trader. His academic research has focused on informational economics related to asset valuation and on market trading strategies.