Ivan is co-founder of Chicago Global and Head of Portfolio Management. He has over 20 years of experience in asset management. His career began on Wall Street in 1999 and took him to Europe and Asia in various portfolio management and research capacities, spanning equities, bonds, and their derivatives. He helped start the hedge fund research group at Morgan Stanley, which led to the creation of indices and portfolios that stimulated the acceptance of alternative investments in institutional portfolios. He conducted due diligence and quantitative analysis on hundreds of hedge funds. He was one of the principal authors of MSCI’s Hedge Fund Index Methodology. A highlight of his tenure was spearheading a joint venture with Société Générale, where he helped develop tradeable hedge fund instruments. He evaluated and directed investments in relative value hedge funds while at Financial Risk Management LLC, ultimately helping to manage over US$700 million. As a portfolio manager with LGT Capital Partners, he ran top-down sector allocation and investment selection for a US$1.2 billion hedge fund portfolio. After the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008 he launched a private investment partnership that made direct investments across three dimensions: equity, credit, and volatility. Ivan earned two master's degrees from the University of Chicago with a concentration in finance. He also holds a bachelor's degree (Summa Cum Laude) from Oklahoma City University.