Smart Alternatives is in start-up mode and looking forward to building a top-notch team.
Chief Executive Officer
We seek a dynamic CEO who can build a strong distribution platform for our investment management services and who can recruit and lead a team of partner-level relationship managers.
Chief Investment Officer
Rehan A. Syed, PhD, CAIA, a seasoned investment professional and former regional Head of Portfolio Management for a large European private bank, ABN AMRO, managed global investment portfolios for clients in the South Asia, Middle East, North Africa regions. He managed discretionary mandates with both relative- and absolute-return goals and advised non-discretionary clients on portfolio construction spanning all asset classes via ETFs, bonds, mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity, structured products and liquid real estate. Earlier, he was at Societe Generale's "SG Cowen" securities division (now Cowen and Company) in the San Francisco and Boston offices, where he was a Managing Director of Institutional Investment Research. He was twice ranked by the prestigious "Wall Street Journal" among the top five analysts in his sector winning the Best on Street and All-Star Analyst awards. He has been profiled in detail by the Wall Street Journal and his research has also been featured by CNBC, New York Times, Electronic Business, Smart Money and Institutional Investor.
His disciplined investment approach has strong roots. He earned a Ph.D. in Finance from the EDHEC Risk Institute (Grande Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales), one of Europe's largest business schools, where he researched on manager performance evaluation, inflation hedging with alternative assets and portfolio optimization. He is a Certified Alternative Investment Advisor (CAIA). He also holds a MBA from U.C. Berkeley and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ohio Wesleyan University, with highest honors of Phi Beta Kappa and Summa cum Laude. He started as an engineer and product line manager at Oracle Corporation in the late 1980s.
He has served as keynote speaker, moderator or panelist at many international investment conferences like Funds Forum International, Hedge Funds World, Alternative Investments, ETF and Indexing Investments, Real Estate Investment World, Millionaire Asia and others.
Senior Partner
We are looking for dynamic relationship management executives who have a successful history of serving high net worth investors, family offices and small institutions.
Senior Partner
We are looking for dynamic relationship management executives who have a successful history of serving high net worth investors, family offices and small institutions.
Senior Partner
We are looking for dynamic relationship management executives who have a successful history of serving high net worth investors, family offices and small institutions.