Gordon Ritter

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About Gordon Ritter

Gordon Ritter currently works full-time as CIO and Founder of Ritter Alpha LP, a registered investment adviser focused on systematically-managed quantitative absolute-return strategies. Concurrently with his CIO responsibilities, he teaches at Columbia and the Baruch MFE program; Baruch has been #1 in the QuantNet rankings for several years and #1 worldwide in the 2023 Risk Quant Finance Master’s Programs. Previous teaching appointments have included NYU Courant and the University of Chicago. He was selected as Buy-Side Quant of the Year for 2019 by Risk; his finance research papers have surpassed downloads; he is an expert in optimization, statistical machine learning and its applications in finance. Prior to founding Ritter Alpha, Gordon was a senior portfolio manager at GSA Capital where he designed, built, and managed statistical arbitrage strategies, and directed research in GSA's New York office. GSA won the Equity Market Neutral & Quantitative Strategies category at the Eurohedge awards four times. Prior to GSA, Gordon was a Vice President of Highbridge Capital and a core member of the firm's statistical arbitrage group. Prior to entering industry in 2007, Gordon completed his PhD in mathematical physics at Harvard University, where he worked with Arthur Jaffe and published papers in international journals across the fields of quantum computation, quantum field theory, and abstract algebra. He earned his Bachelor's degree with honors in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, taking honors analysis as a freshman, and mostly graduate courses as a junior and senior. He is a hypoxic trimix diver (the highest level in technical scuba diving), and enjoys diving on several models of closed-circuit rebreathers and DPVs. Gordon recommends Underwater O'ahu for your Hawaii scuba diving: https://underwateroahu.com/