Tanya R.
Investments
The move
MoveAD Ports Group → Boolean Algorithmic Trading
TitleManager - Corporate Funding - CFO Office → Chief Investment Officer
LocationAbu Dhabi → Dubai
Career arcRooted in UAE★
Cross-border moveNo — same country
Years in UAE18.3
Total experience13.5 years
Career arc
- MentorOct 2022 — Jan 2024DDubai Business Women Council (DBWC)· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Part-time
- Manager - Corporate Funding - CFO OfficeSep 2022 — Jan 2024
AD Ports Group· Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates· Full-time
- Chief Investment OfficerMar 2022 — PresentBBoolean Algorithmic Trading· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Full-time
- Consultant - Business Transformation OfficeMar 2022 — Aug 2022
- Economics and Finance ContributorJun 2020 — Dec 2021
Forbes Middle East· Part-time
- Multi-asset Quantitative Portfolio ManagerJun 2019 — Jan 2022
Daman Investments· Dubai· Full-time
- Board MemberSep 2018 — May 2019
Skoot Mobility (MaaS)· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Full-time
- Quantitative Portfolio ManagerSep 2016 — Jun 2018SSwiss Hedge Fund (confidential)· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Full-time
- Quantitative Hedge Fund and Buy-side Consultant (Abu Dhabi and South Africa)Jul 2015 — Aug 2016
Bloomberg LP· United Arab Emirates· Full-time
- Economics and Finance ContributorFeb 2014 — Dec 2015
Global Risk Insights· Dubai· Part-time
- Quantitative Portfolio ManagerApr 2012 — Jun 2015
Arqaam Capital· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Full-time
Education
- Alliance Manchester Business SchoolMSc · Finance2007 — 2008
- CFA InstituteCFA Level I passed June 20172017 — Sep 2026
- The Indian High School, Dubai· CBSE, Secondary Education1993 — 2003
- The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)BSc · Banking and Finance2003 — 2007
Top skills
Portfolio ManagementTradingBloombergEquitiesRCDD
About
Over 15 years experience in asset allocation and managing investments over $1 bn in a multi-asset setting for hedge funds, single family offices (SFO) and multi-family offices. Tanya founded and spearheaded the Middle East region’s first statistical arbitrage (market and dollar neutral) equity hedge fund using machine learning for advanced econometric analysis (R language and MATLAB) at Arqaam Capital and a Swiss single family office. She advises multi-asset investment portfolios of HNWIs, UHNWIs, SFOs and multi-family offices on asset allocation and optimal portfolio construction and comments frequently on Reuters, Bloomberg and Forbes Middle East as a Finance and Economics expert.