Rohit Kumar Jha

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Youngest portfolio manager at Tower Research Capital.
Built intraday trading vertical from scratch at WorldQuant.
Expert in quantitative strategies and risk management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong quantitative and trading strategy capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Risk ManagementQuantitative InvestingTeam Leadership

Other Skills

Algorithmic TradingAlgorithmsAlternate dataApplications Software DevelopmentArtificial IntelligenceAsset ManagementCC++Data AnalysisData MiningData StructuresElectronic TradingEquity ResearchEquity TradingFinancial Modeling

About

Techie by education, trader by profession, and entrepreneur at heart Previously, built and scaled an entire trading vertical from scratch One of the youngest portfolio managers at Tower Research Capital Actively advise and consult on quantitative strategies and risk management systems Jack of all trades, master of few!

Experience

Indian institute of management bangalore

Guest Lecturer

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Arthalpha

Co-Founder

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Various companies

Advisor / Consultant

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Advise and consult family offices and prop trading firms on:
Alternate data
Risk management
New strategy launches
Research framework
ML in trading

Alternate dataRisk managementNew strategy launchesResearch frameworkML in tradingRisk Management+1

Tower research capital

Senior Portfolio Manager

Feb 2021 – Dec 2021 · 10 mos · Mumbai, Singapore

Tower Research Capital is one of the biggest high-frequency trading (HFT) firms in the world
Joined as one of the youngest portfolio managers
Helped set up the infrastructure, data pipeline, risk management framework, execution, and core strategies for mid-frequency equities trading
APAC L/S equity market neutral

Arrax capital

Founder and CIO

May 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Managed capital for family offices using ML-based strategies using both structured and unstructured data sources

Worldquant

Vice President and Head of Intraday

Jan 2015 – Apr 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai, New York

Worldquant LLC is the quantitative arm of Millennium Management (one of the biggest hedge funds in the world)
Built the entire intraday trading vertical from scratch, growing it to a team of 25+ researchers, technologists, and traders across 10+ offices
L/S equity and Intraday Equities/ETFs