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About Quantal
Board
Lawrence Tint (Chairman)
joined Quantal International, Inc. from Barclays Global Investors (BGI), where he served as Vice-Chairman, US CEO and member of the Global Management Committee. Before joining BGI, Larry served as President of Sharpe-Tint, Inc. an investment management and consulting company specializing in asset allocation for large institutional investors, which he started together with William F. Sharpe. Larry's industry experience includes a variety of senior research and development roles at Cantor Fitzgerald, Trust Company of the West, Wilshire Associates and Merrill Lynch. Larry received his AB in economics from Haverford College, and his MBA in finance and operations research from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Larry is a member of the Haverford College Board of Managers, and chairs the Haverford College Committee. Larry is also a member of the Claremont Graduate University Drucher School Board of Visitors.
Terry Marsh (Executive Director)
received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. Terry served on the finance faculty at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley until 2005, and is a former chairman of the Haas Finance Group. He is presently an Emeritus Professor of Finance at Haas. Before joining Berkeley, Terry was an Associate Professor of Finance at MIT. He is a recipient of the Batterymarch Fellowship, was a National Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and is a CPA Fellow of the Australian Society of Accountants. He has consulted for the New York Stock Exchange, the Options Clearing Corporation, the Industrial Bank of Japan, New Japan Securities, and Banamex, and was a member of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms which investigated the 1987 stock market crash. Terry was a Yamaichi Fellow and Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo in 1993.
Paul Pfleiderer (Executive Director)
has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. He is the C.O.G. Miller Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Co-Director of the Financial Management Program, and served as Head of the finance group from 1995 to 2002. Paul’s research interests are in market microstructure and the design of financial markets, disclosure regulation, corporate finance and venture capital, and portfolio theory and portfolio optimization. He was awarded a Batterymarch Fellowship in 1987. Paul teaches in Stanford's Executive Program, and has consulted for a number of financial institutions.
Edward Baker (Director)
is Chairman of The Cambridge Strategy (Asset Management) Limited in London. Until April of 2007 Ed was the Chief Investment Officer of Emerging Markets Growth Equities at Alliance Bernstein. Ed joined Alliance Capital in 1995 and served in various roles during his tenure, including CEO of Alliance Capital Limited, Alliance's London based subsidiary. Ed assumed responsibility for the Emerging Markets Growth business in early 1998 and built this into a $10 billion AUM business before his departure. Prior to joining Alliance in 1995, Mr. Baker worked for Barra, Inc., an investment technology firm which he joined in 1978. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of The Investment Management Consultants Association and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Investment Consulting. He is also the Chairman of the Equity Advisory Group of the Institute of International Finance, and a Trustee for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Mr. Baker earned a B.A. from the University of South Florida and an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Regents Fellow. He has also completed work towards a Ph.D. in both mathematics and finance. Ed joined The Cambridge Strategy in April 2007.
Philippe Chambadal (Director)
is President and CEO of Metamatrix. Prior to co-founding Metamatrix, he was Vice President, Sales & Marketing with FAME Software, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company. Before that, he was co-founder of Reuters New Media, and was in charge of Reuters Money Network, an information service targeted at private investors. Mr. Chambadal holds a Master’s degree from HEC, Paris.
Stephen Compagni-Portis (Director)
served as President of Leveraged Equity Management, an investment banking firm based in San Francisco, from 1990 through 1999,. From 1995-1998, he was also Chairman and CEO of Kettle Restaurants, a 100-unit restaurant chain based in Houston, Texas. Prior to Leveraged Equity Management, Mr. Compagni-Portis was a principal with First San Francisco Holdings, where he originated and raised financing for leveraged buyouts. He was an equity investor in the buyouts of California Water Holdings, a West Coast water purification company, and Westward Ho Markets, a grocery store chain based in Los Angeles. He received an M.B.A. from Stanford in 1984, and a B.S. in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1980.
Inder-Jeet (I-J) Gujral (Director)
joins Quantal International from WebMD where he supervised technology, product development and elements of operations. Over the years, I-J has been founder and CEO of several technology-related companies (healthcare software, drug-delivery devices, automation of financial services, wireless sensor networks) that were sold, went public or are currently operating. He serves on public as well as private company boards, and is an advisor to a German venture fund. I-J holds an MBA from Stanford University. He also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Solid State Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and an MS in Computer Science/Mathematics from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
Andrew Rudd (Director)
is Chairman and CEO of Advisor Software Inc. Andrew was a Co-founder and Chairman of Barra, Inc., where he served as CEO from 1984 to 1999. He is the co-author of two industry-leading books on institutional investing: "Modern Portfolio Theory: The Principles of Investment Management" and "Option Pricing". Mr. Rudd was also Professor of Finance and Operations Research at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In addition, he has written numerous journal articles and research papers on a wide range of domestic and international investment practices and theories. Mr. Rudd received his Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Mathematics and Physics from Sussex University in England, and earned a M.Sc. in Operations Research, an M.B.A in Finance and International Business, and a Ph.D. in Finance and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley.
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