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Keith Black has over twenty-five years of financial market experience, serving approximately half of that time as an academic and half as a trader and consultant to institutional investors. He currently serves as Managing Director of Curriculum and Exams for the CAIA Association. During his most recent role at Ennis Knupp + Associates, Keith advised foundations, endowments and pension funds on their asset allocation and manager selection strategies in hedge funds, commodities, and managed futures. Prior experience includes commodities derivatives trading, stock options research and CBOE floor trading, and building quantitative stock selection models for mutual funds and hedge funds. Dr. Black previously served as an assistant professor and senior lecturer at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He contributes regularly to The CFA Digest, and has published in The Journal of Wealth Management, The Journal of Trading, The Journal of Investing, and The Journal of Alternatives Investments, among others. He is the author of the book “Managing a Hedge Fund,” as well as co-author of the 2012 and 2015/2016 second and third editions of the CAIA Level I and Level II textbooks. Dr. Black was named to the Institutional Investor magazine’s list of “Rising Stars of Hedge Funds” in 2010. Dr. Black earned a BA from Whittier College, an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and was a member of the inaugural class of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) candidates. Dr. Black is available to speak on the following topics. Most presentations are less technical talks for a general audience, while those on VIX, smoothing, and hedge fund replication are advanced talks for more technical audiences

Simon Savage is Portfolio Manager of Man Group’s Risk Premia product range, based in London, and a member of the Man Solutions (‘MSL’) Portfolio Committee. Previously, Simon worked within the Man GLG (‘GLG’) business unit. In 2004, Simon joined GLG Partners to focus on active risk management in the Equity Long-Short business, blending his technical skills with the subjective decision making processes of human alpha generation and rising to be Co-Manager of the European Long Short strategy in 2010. Prior to this, Simon was at Morgan Stanley from 1997 heading up their European risk program trading operation, coming from Bear Stearns where he worked from 1994 to start their European portfolio trading business. Simon graduated from Oxford University in 1990 with a BA in Physics and started his career in finance in the equity derivatives team of Nomura focusing on the quantitative aspects of equity trading and risk management.