Neil A. Chriss

Neil Chriss is responsible for strategy selection, capital allocation and risk management as well as the growth of the business and infrastructure of Hutchin Hill Capital. Prior to founding Hutchin Hill in October 2007, Neil was a Managing Director and Operating Committee Member at S.A.C. Capital Management (2003-2007), where he established and headed the firm’s Quantitative Strategies Division and was in charge of SAC’s Multi-Quant Fund. The fund, which he grew from zero assets under management to several billions, became a strategic part of SAC’s investment offering and offered a global portfolio of systematic, process-driven strategies in multiple asset classes. Previously, Neil was a portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (1998-2000), where he developed and managed a global volatility arbitrage strategy for the Global Alpha Fund. Neil also founded and was president of ICor Brokerage Inc. (2000-2003), a global electronic trading platform which Reuters Plc. acquired in 2004. Neil holds PhD and BS degrees in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, and an MS in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology. Neil serves on the Board of Trustees for the Institute for Advance Study (IAS) in Princeton, N.J. and is a member of the Finance Committee, which oversees the management of the Institute’s endowment. Neil is a Trustee at Harvey Mudd College, serving on its Advancement Committee and Budget and Finance Committees, a founding board member of Math for America, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, MSRI. Neil holds a patent for his invention, “Method and System for Portfolio Optimization from Ordering Information.” A frequent keynote speaker at financial conferences, Neil has written numerous books and articles and has held academic positions at Harvard, IAS and the University of Toronto. Neil was named a “2010 Rising Star of Hedge Funds” by Institutional Investor and one of “Tomorrow’s Titans: Blue Chip Managers for the Next Decade” by Hedge Fund Journal. Hutchin Hill Capital was named the 2011 Emerging Hedge Fund of the Year by Institutional Investor.