Michael Abata serves as Director of Research for the Invesco Quantitative Strategies team. He was promoted to this role in 2016 after joining the team in 2011 as a research analyst.

Mr. Abata has more than 20 years of quantitative equity experience. He was previously with State Street Global Markets. Prior to joining State Street, he consulted for Hermes Fund Managers on its quantitative global equitystrategy.

He spent 11 years at Putnam Investment Management where he was a senior vice president and portfolio manager with responsibilities for developing multi-factor models and managing large-cap portfolios.

Prior to joining Putnam, Mr. Abata spent three years at Alliance Capital as a quantitative analyst focused on domestic, international and global equity portfolios. He joined Alliance from I/B/E/S International where he was a quantitative analyst.

Mr. Abata earned a BA degree in economics from Binghamton University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.