Nikolaos Kontakis

Dr Nikolaos Kontakis is President and CEO of NGSQ International, a New York-based consultancy specialising in the design and implementation of quantitative and algorithmic investment strategies in global financial markets. He is also the manager of two risk-weighted quantitative funds. From 2018 to date, he has been President, CEO and Chief Scientist of Mathisys Advisors LLC, based in New Jersey. He is also a Managing Director of Greenpost Trading Europe Ltd. based in Nicosia, where he is involved in proprietary algorithmic trading on equity and commodity exchanges in Europe.

He has 30 years' experience in equity, bond, currency and commodity markets around the world. The investment strategies he manages range from very short delay and high frequency to intermediate frequency and beyond. He has led several multi-member research and implementation teams, from senior positions to quantitatively weighted funds.

His interests include the design and implementation of algorithmic trading strategies using statistical modelling, artificial intelligence, methods from the natural sciences and the development of predictive models using very large databases.

Dr Kontakis holds a Ph.D. and M.S. degree from Columbia University in New York and is an honours graduate of the Physics Department of the University of Athens. He has held research positions at Princeton, Columbia and SUNY universities and has participated in experiments at Brookhaven, Fermilab and CERN.

Since 2005, he has been a Visiting Professor and External Research Associate at the Department of Economics and Management Engineering of the University of the Aegean, where he teaches the course on Financial Market Dynamics in the Finance and Economics Engineering track of the graduate programme.

Email Επικοινωνίας: kondakis@aegean.gr