CEO

With over 30 years of investment experience, John founded Quan Capital Advisors in 2024 after retiring from the Wellington Management, where he was a portfolio manager and a senior member of Wellington’s Global Fixed Income and Hedge Fund business. As part of this role, he was a long serving member of the Global Risk Committee, which is responsible for leading and allocating capital to the investment team and managing risk across the entire Global Fixed Income business.

He is an experienced leader and investor with a proven track record of developing/implementing macro and quantitative hedge fund strategies, and has a long history of generating alpha, even during the most tumultuous market episodes eg. 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2022. He served on various Committees/Groups/Programs at the firm including the Hedge Fund Review Group, New Product Review Group, Global Trading & Risk Committee and the Investor Development Program, where he served as its first “Dean”.

In 2006, John was specifically recruited to add a new dimension to its investment team and also be a catalyst to restructure the group, develop its alternatives platform and ultimately grow the firm’s global fixed income enterprise. Fast forward to the present and the business has transitioned from a modest, traditional, long-only platform to a dynamic, multi-product, multi-strategy investment team, which also includes a thriving hedge fund effort.

Prior to joining Wellington John was co-founder and managing partner at Fairlane Asset Management, where he was responsible for the firm’s hedge fund business (2003 – 2006); he was a Portfolio Manager focusing on quantitative macro strategies at West End Capital (2002 – 2003); Head of Canadian Fixed Income Trading at Deutsche Bank Securities (1997 – 2002), and Senior Economist at RBC Capital Markets (1994 – 1997) where he ranked #1 globally in the Greenwich Survey for valued-added Canadian investment research.

CTO

Prior to starting Quan Capital Advisors, Chris was a managing director at the Wellington Management Company in Boston, where he worked for over 12 years. He helped manage a global fixed income systematic portfolio and was especially focused on model development.

Before Wellington he worked at: Autonomy Capital Research, an emerging markets hedge fund in London, for 4 years where he managed quantitative development/and systems; West End Capital in Bermuda, a fixed income hedge fund; Peregrine Fixed Income in Hong Kong and Lehman Brothers in London.

Chris received his BSc, first class with honours, from Nottingham University in Mathematical Physics and the Graduate Certificate in Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics from Cambridge University.

CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST

Raffaele Ghigliazza has 20 years of experience in quantitative finance with a comprehensive background in all aspects of the investment process: data handling, forecasting, signal generation, portfolio construction, and risk management.

With a proven record of bringing unconventional insights and challenging the status quo, he worked at JPMorgan, Duality Group, and Wellington Management. He has engaged with both discretionary and systematic processes. This diverse exposure has enabled him to build models and systematic strategies that prioritize not only performance but also the longevity of the investment process.

With a foundation in dynamical systems, he also served as a teaching assistant to John Hopfield and has applied fundamental machine learning models across diverse fields since the early 2000’s, from biology to finance.