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 A.
R. Arulpragasam
Mr.
Arulpragasam is the president and chief executive officer of
Archetype Risk Advisors, Inc. and its affiliates
("ARA ")
and is responsible for overall firm management, long-term business
strategy, firm-wide portfolio and risk management, and product
research and development.
Mr.
Arulpragasam has three decades of experience managing hedge fund companies and
developing quantitative trading strategies and risk models for alternative
investment funds. His areas of expertise include fixed income arbitrage,
systematic technical analysis modeling, long/short and multi-factor
market-neutral equity strategies, and volatility-based strategies.
Prior
to 2004, Mr. Arulpragasam also ran marketing at
ARA
and between 1993 and 2000 he raised in excess of $500 million in
client assets, primarily from large institutional
investors.
Prior
to founding ARA ,
Mr. Arulpragasam worked as head of research at Fairfield Financial
Corp., a boutique yield curve arbitrage firm.
Mr.
Arulpragasam earned his B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, followed by graduate studies at
Stanford
University
in the field of operations research. He has been a member of the NFA
since 1992 and is a member of PRMIA and of
SIAM.
Robert M.
Tolson
Mr. Tolson joined ARA in 2007 as Head of Managed Futures
Product Research and Trading. Mr. Tolson has over twenty five years
of diverse experience in the futures, currency and fixed income
trading and research.
In 2001, Mr. Tolson joined Georgica Capital as director of
research and trading, prior to which he served as a senior trader
and systems analyst, since 1997, at Dunn Capital Management. In
1994, he joined Credit Suisse as a prop trader, prior to which, in
1986, he joined Lloyds Bank Plc as a prop trader and later
managed their cap/floor portfolio. Earlier in his career, Mr.
Tolson was an institutional cash and futures broker at Discount
Corp. of New York and Carroll, McEntee & McGinley, both primary
dealers.
Mr. Tolson received a BS in finance from the University of
Colorado, Boulder in 1981.
Kaushik
J. Kapasi
Mr.
Kapasi is Head of Information Technology (IT) at ARA and has been with the firm
since 1998. Mr. Kapasi's primary responsibility is the overall management of
ARA's IT systems, but he is also a key member of the Research Committee, where
he oversees ARA's model building, testing and simulation platforms.
Mr.
Kapasi has more than 10 years of experience in quantitative finance and
associated software development. His strong skills in financial modeling,
statistics, programming and database management help ARA to research, test and
rapidly deploy new product ideas with fully-automated front-office and
back-office systems. As the head of Information Technology, he is also
responsible for providing IT support to the other departments. Prior to joining
ARA, he worked with People's Bank, as a Portfolio Analyst.
Mr.
Kapasi has a bachelor's degree in Production Engineering from Bombay University
and MBA from University of Connecticut.
Michael J. Boyd
Mr. Boyd began working with ARA in 2004 as a consultant in the area of new product development, research and trading. Mr. Boyd has three decades of experience in the capital markets arena.
In
Mr. Boyd has lectured on derivatives to United States Department of Justice, SEC and FBI attorneys and has served as a consultant to the United States Treasury Department on topics ranging from theoretical constant-maturity analysis (fitted yield curves) to the 2001 decision of the U.S. Treasury to cease new issuance of 30 year bonds.
In 1988, Mr. Boyd founded Wilkinson Boyd Asset Management, Inc. and Wilkinson Boyd Capital Markets, Inc. ("WBCM"), and served as CEO of both firms from 1988 to 2004. At WBCM, Mr. Boyd developed a highly quantitative, statistically-based, fixed income research product that resulted in more than $250 billion in annual trading volume for the company.
Prior to WBCM, Mr. Boyd held the following senior positions at a number of Wall Street firms: he was responsible for the formation and management of the municipal reinvestment department at Credit Suisse First Boston; he was National Sales and Product Manager for U.S. Treasury and Mortgage-backed securities at Citicorp Capital Markets; and, he was Global Head of Sales/Product Manager for the U.S. Treasury and Corporate Bond Departments at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, Inc.
Mr.
Boyd is a graduate of Fordham
University
,
and holds degrees in Economics and History.
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