Dr. Ajay Dravid is the Managing Director of Portfolio Strategy for the Adviser and joined the Adviser in 2011. As a co-portfolio manager of Equinox Fund Management’s mutual funds,

Dr. Dravid is involved in day-to-day portfolio and risk management, as well as in developing and structuring new products.

Prior to joining Equinox, he was a consultant and a member of the Executive Committee of The Frontier Fund. Dr. Dravid has more than 30 years of experience in industry, academia, and financial services.

From 2004 to 2006, he was President of Saranac Capital Management, a separate entity spun out from Citigroup to manage more than $3 billion in hedge fund assets.

From 1996 to 2004, he was a Director and then a Managing Director at Salomon Brothers and Citigroup, where he helped to build and manage the hedge fund business and platforms.

He was a co-portfolio manager for the Multi-Strategy Arbitrage funds, a quantitative analyst for the Equity Long-Short funds, and the head of the Risk Committee. He was also involved in the structuring and marketing of funds and in client service.

From 1993 to 1996, Dr. Dravid was a Vice President in the Asset Allocation Research Group of Salomon Brothers. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Wharton School.

Dr. Dravid has published numerous papers in leading academic and practitioner journals including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Derivatives.

Dr. Dravid received a BSc in Physics from the University of Poona (India), an MA in Physics from SUNY at Stony Brook, an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Rochester, and a PhD in Finance from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He holds a CFTC/NFA Series 3 registration.