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Samuel Vazquez

Vega Edge LLC

Samuel Vazquez, Ph.D. began his career as a postdoctoral researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2007. Following that, Dr. Vazquez joined Capital Fund Management (CFM), a leading quantitative hedge fund in France. At CFM he served as a Senior Research Manager, developing alpha strategies across asset classes, and was a key member of the team managing and developing the directional volatility program. He went on to found Vega Edge LLC in 2014, a boutique asset management firm specializing in systematic volatility-driven strategies. Dr. Vazquez joined Capstone in 2015 where he developed a systematic futures trading program which is currently trading VIX futures and all liquid contracts on the CME/GLOBEX exchange. Dr. Vazquez holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. During his academic years, he co-authored more than 20 publications on topics such as String Theory, Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Quantitative Methods in Finance.

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