Varoon Govil

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India18 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

17+ years in quantitative finance and risk management.
Expert in systematic global equity strategies.
Senior leader in portfolio management and trading.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert specializing in quantitative finance and systematic trading strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quantitative FinancePortfolio ManagementEquity Research

Other Skills

AdaptationAlgorithmic TradingApplication Programming Interfaces (API)Asset AllocationAsset ManagementCapital MarketsChatGPTCoachingCommunicationCustom GPTsDue DiligenceEnglishEquitiesEquity TradingEvent Driven

About

17+ years experience focusing on quantitative factor research and systematic global equity market neutral strategies with strong emphasis on risk control / portfolio construction. Senior member of portfolio team managing prop and client assets in Global equities.

Experience

Msci inc.

Executive Director

Jul 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Versor investments

Partner

Jul 2011 – Jul 2025 · 14 yrs · Mumbai · Hybrid

Focused on quantitative equity research, fundamental factor research and design of global equity market neutral systematic strategies. Researched and backtested alpha factors, developed tradable portfolio construction rules with real life constraints. Developed strong post trading risk management matrix, performance and risk attribution tools.
Customized trading algorithms for global equities, commodities, bonds, FX with an objective to have minimal market impact.

quantitative equity researchfundamental factor researchsystematic strategiesalpha factorsportfolio constructionrisk management+3

Crisil

Manager, Quant Research

May 2007 – Jul 2011 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai

Strong Quant research background. Expert in researching and developing Equity trading strategies from scratch to execution using mathematical / statistical models and programming languages (VBA), and Stat packages (Matlab, R)

quantitative researchequity trading strategiesmathematical modelsprogramming languagesVBAStat packages+4