The Blushing Quants Podcast

Gilad Bar-Ilan is the CEO and co-founder of Crowd Wisdom Trading, with extensive experience across proprietary trading, equities, options, futures, foreign exchange, product management, software development, and financial technology.

Gilad began his career as a day trader with remote U.S. proprietary trading firms before joining an Israeli proprietary trading firm and becoming deeply invol...

Paul MacGregor is a financial markets executive with nearly 30 years of experience across exchanges, derivatives, electronic trading, commodities, technology, and international business development.

In this episode, Paul traces his journey from strategic planning at BP to the open-outcry trading floors of LIFFE, where he witnessed the rapid transition from human execution to fully electronic markets. He explains how real-time data,...

Roger McIntosh is a Chief Investment Officer with an actuarial and quantitative background and extensive experience managing equities, fixed income, multi-asset portfolios, pension assets, index funds, and systematic investment strategies.

Roger helped establish Vanguard’s investment team in Australia, built several of its index funds, led its equity and bond teams, and developed mul...

Nam Nguyen is a career quantitative finance professional with experience across both the sell side and buy side. Based in Toronto and working across North America and Asia, Nam began his career during the global financial crisis, building models for complex financial derivatives before moving into model validation, risk management, and eventually buy-side quantitative research.

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Antonio Marrazzo is a quantitative researcher with a background in economics and actuarial science, focused on factor investing, portfolio construction, market regimes, data analysis, and machine learning in financial markets.

Originally from Argentina, Antonio began applying quantitative methods to investing before formally discovering the quant profession. He translated concepts such as ...

Vincent Randazzo, CMT, is a portfolio manager and technical market strategist with more than 25 years of experience across firms including Morgan Stanley, UBS, ICAP, CFRA Research, and Lowry Research.

After observing that investors have access to more market data than ever but often lack clarity on how to use it, Vincent developed Defender, a quantitative, rules-based framework designed to...

Jerome Busca is a quantitative trader with more than 25 years of experience across mathematics, quantitative research, portfolio management, global futures, foreign exchange, and crypto markets.

After beginning his career in academic mathematics and applied research in France, Jerome moved into quantitative finance and later joined Citadel’s hedge fund business. Working on the mortga...

Paul Chalmers, CEO of UK Trading Academy, for a raw and practical conversation about what most traders misunderstand about the markets.

Paul breaks down why trading education often fails, why theory alone is not enough, and how real market experience, risk management, psychology, and disciplined execution separate serious traders from the crowd.

We discuss how markets have changed, the role of AI and algorithms in modern trading, a...

Jonathan Davies is an economist with over 30 years of experience in financial services.

Jonathan has worked across several areas of the investment world, including fixed-income research, portfolio strategy, and portfolio management. His career has focused mainly on the macroeconomic side of markets, examining areas such as interest rates, bond yields, currency movements, equity-versus-bond allocation, regional market pref...

Eren Biri is the founder of OneEye Capital, a volatility-focused investment firm built around a strong mix of quantitative research, discretionary overlays, and deeply engineered infrastructure. With a background in computer engineering, experience at Goldman Sachs and multiple hedge funds, and a career that moved from quant research into trading and portfolio management, he brings a highly practical perspective on what it really t...

Nikolai Nowaczyk is a mathematician, published researcher, and quantitative risk professional with a background spanning academia, consulting, and banking. With deep experience in counterparty credit risk, model development, and validation, he brings a rare perspective on how highly technical mathematical ideas are actually implemented inside major financial institutions.

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Ufuk Tasdan is a quantitative researcher with an unconventional background spanning physics, philosophy of physics, cryptocurrency trading, and energy market analytics. After studying physics and completing a PhD in philosophy of physics, he moved into applied quantitative work, first in crypto and later in European energy markets, where he focuses on price forecasting, market analysis, and model building for traders and market par...

Oded Shimoni is the CEO of AlphaBeta, a quantitative R&D company focused on systematic, low-correlation investment strategies across products such as mutual funds, alternative ETFs, hedge funds, and tracking funds. His work sits at the intersection of quantitative research, portfolio construction, factor investing, and the growing world of liquid alternative investment vehicles.

In this episode, we get into what it actually tak...

Ben Charoenwong is a finance professor, researcher, and fund manager working at the intersection of academia, quantitative investing, and applied market practice. As an associate professor at INSEAD and co-founder of Chicago Global, he brings a rare perspective shaped by both rigorous academic training and the real constraints of building and managing investment strategies in live markets.

In this episode, we talk about what it act...

Garret Brennan is the co-founder and CEO of Epoch, an AI-native quantitative research startup building tools for institutional investors who want to integrate AI into their workflows without sacrificing rigor, determinism, or trust. With a background on the fixed income desk at Bank of Montreal in New York, Garret brings both market experience and startup urgency to the problem of making quantitative research faster, more accessibl...

Roman Isachenko is a quantitative researcher with a background in applied mathematics and rocket science who moved from engineering into finance, derivatives, and systematic trading. His experience spans risk management, derivative pricing, asset management, and small hedge fund environments, giving him a grounded view of how quant research actually works when capital, time, and market reality put every idea under pressure.

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Zach Marx is the Chief Investment Officer of Vineyard Quant Capital, where he works at the intersection of systematic equity investing, institutional flow, and data-driven portfolio construction.

In this episode, we get into what it actually takes to build a quantitative investment process around how institutions and retail investors make decisions, and how that can be turned into a systematic equity strategy.

We talk about Zach&rs...

Mark Aron Szulyovszky is a crypto quant and an entrepreneur focused on cross-sectional alpha factors in digital assets. He works to surface crypto-native factors, build market-neutral portfolios, and turn research on derivatives, microstructure, and token-specific behavior into tradable products for both internal use and external clients.

In this episode, we get into what it actually takes to build and trade crypto-native alpha fac...

Manuel Ritsch is the founder of Alpha Rho Technologies, where he is building AI-native investment infrastructure for asset management. After seeing how much of the industry still relied on outdated tools and manual processes, he set out to replicate the work of human analysts with AI and turn that into a real operating model for funds.

In this episode, we step slightly outside pure quant research to explore what it actually takes t...