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Emmanuel Ferreira, Chief Investment Officer

Emmanuel Ferreira founded Convector Capital Management in November of 2011 and has overseen the firms evolution from a traditional investment manager to one empowered by the vanguard of technological innovation applied to the investment management industry.  The firm having started with an investment team of five seasoned professionals has evolved to generate analytical insight brought forth by innovative Artificial Intelligence solutions equivalent to thousands of traditional analysts.

Prior to Convector, Emmanuel brought investment innovation to OppenheimerFunds, Inc. pioneering the long/short mutual fund and Flexible Fund category as the portfolio manager of the Oppenheimer Quest Opportunity Value Fund. He simultaneously managed the Multiple Strategies Fund, the Panorama Total Return Fund, and the equity sleeve of the firms Balanced Funds.  He also managed the Merrill Lynch Opportunistic Long/Short fund, one of only two long/short equity portfolios approved on that platform, and was co-manager of the Select Value Fund.

Before starting his career in asset management, Emmanuel worked in the Financial Advisory Services group of Coopers & Lybrand LLP, where he specialized in international mergers, acquisitions, privatization and restructuring.

Emmanuel has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg and other programs. He has been profiled in Barron's, and interviewed in publications such as The New York Times, BusinessWeek, U.S. News and World Report and The Wall Street Journal.  He has been a member of several investment-related organizations.

Emmanuel served in the United States Navy as an anti-submarine warfare specialist.  He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Schiller International University with a B.B.A. in International Business, and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration.

wing chow, Senior analyst

Wing oversees macroeconomic data analysis and provides quantitative analytical support and performance evaluations. Prior to this he worked at Encima Global providing economic analysis to David Malpass, who had served in this function for Convector since its inception.  Previously, Wing was a Managing Director in the Equity Research department of Bear Stearns. During his 14 years at Bear he held a number of research and research management positions, including: investment strategy, writing Bear's technical and quantitative reports "from the Trading Floor"; was ranked in the Institutional Investor poll for Index Analysis in the Derivatives category; evaluated analyst performance as a member of the Analyst Oversight Committee; and was the liaison between equity analysts and the Director of Research for stock selection in the Equity Research Focus List

Wing studied Mathematics and Linguistics at Northeastern University.

Antoine Ferreira, Software Engineer

Antoine Ferreira is collaborating with the research and development of C.A.R.L. (Convector Algorithms Research Laboratory), providing computing solutions that have the goal of boosting the efficiency and productivity of the investment team by automating and improving the research process.  Previously, Antoine was a full stack developer for 4 years at Amadeus IT Group where he worked in both front-end e-retail applications used by over 100 airlines, and back-end applications that handle over 50 million transactions a day.  During his period at Amadeus he was trained as a scrum master, leading his team to successful deliveries of multiple projects and handling the development cycle end-to-end; as well as being a coach for accessible web development.

Antoine obtained his telecommunications engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, considered the best engineering university in Spain, and his masters degree from the Catholic University of Louvain, considered one of the best universities in Europe.  He obtained a distinction with honors on his master thesis for his work on augmented reality used in combination with Internet of Things.  His thesis was presented and published at the IEEE Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing in 2013.