Meet Our Leadership Team & Advisors

At Vise, we've done things that have shaped the financial markets

Our people have pioneered the custom indexing business at a $2T asset manager, built the first factor investing strategies, and helped save the world’s largest asset manager billions during the financial crisis. Our leadership and advisory team have over 250 years of combined experience and bring to the table some of the best that finance and technology have to offer.

Leadership Team

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Samir Vasavada

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

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Runik Mehrotra

Co-Founder & President

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Andy Waisburd

Co-Chief Investment Officer

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Travis Fairchild

Co-Chief Investment Officer

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Wei Zhong, PhD

Head of Quantitative Engineering

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Ross Znavor

President

Advisors

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Andrea Eisfeldt, PhD

Laurence D. & Lori W. Fink Endowed Chair in Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management

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Steven Grenadier, PhD

Professor of Financial Economics at Stanford GSB

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S.P. Kothari, PhD

Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management

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Troy Paredes

Founder of Paredes Strategies, LLC and former SEC Commissioner

Larry Raffone

Chairman & Former CEO/President of Edelman Financial Engines

Chip Roame

Founder and Managing Partner of Tiburon Strategic Advisors

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