The Quinnipiac Global Asset Management Education (GAME) Forum is the world’s largest student-run financial conference. It provides students a platform from which to explore a variety of financial topics and practices, both among themselves and with the support of global industry leaders.
Bobby Barnes is one of several prominent 2023 Quinnipiac GAME Forum keynote speakers. The head of Quantitative Index Solutions at Fidelity Investments, Mr. Barnes has extensive experience in areas of retirement planning, portfolio advising, benefits outsourcing, and an array of financial products and services. Under his leadership, QIS designs and manages a variety of investment vehicles, ranging from fixed income to multi-asset class. He previously worked as an alpha research quantitative analyst.
Jiam Bianco, the president of Bianco Research, LLC, is another 2023 keynote speaker. An accomplished macro strategist, Mr. Bianco has over three decades of experience as a global economist known for eschewing typical Wall Street research tactics. He is also known as an insightful commentator who has spoken on topics such as the government’s role in the national economy and the interaction between politics and various markets.
Chartered Financial Analyst Jimmy C. Chang has served as the chief investment officer of the Rockefeller Global Family Office since 2020, having initially joined the company in 2004 and held roles such as chief investment strategist and senior portfolio manager. He gained experience leading technology-driven equity research as a senior tech analyst, and later chief technology strategist, with the US Trust Company of New York.
Aroop Chatterjee, meanwhile, brings a global macro perspective to his keynote speaker role. Mr. Chatterjee has spent over 15 years as a global macro strategist focusing on emerging markets and matters of foreign exchange. During his time as the managing director of FX EM Macro Strategy, Americas for Barclays, he helped shape the bank’s view on the US dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the overriding global foreign exchange landscape. He further served the organization by creating a number of foreign exchange analysis frameworks and models.
Keynote speaker Celia Dallas joined Cambridge Associates in 1996, and is now tasked with the development of the company’s global investment strategy in her position as chief investment strategist. She possesses a breadth of capital market and investment planning knowledge, which she has contributed to numerous Cambridge Associates research projects and publications. She gained insight into competitive intelligence consulting as a consultant with the firm Harlan Brown & Co.
As a speaker, Anupam Damani brings portfolio management experience that eclipses fixed income topics and includes matters of foreign currency, sovereign credit, and global rates. She manages a diversity of responsibilities in her dual role as the head of international and emerging markets debt strategy and co-head of global fixed income portfolio management for Nuveen, a TIAA company.
Finally, certified financial advisor David Duong is the head of institutional research at Coinbase Institutional, a position that involves leading all cryptocurrency research at the company. He has nearly 20 years of experience in areas of macroeconomics and quantitative modeling, and has particular experience with foreign exchange rates in Latin America.
Additional 2023 Quinnipiac GAME Forum keynote speakers include Fidelity Investments managing director of research Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly and Michael Gapen, managing director and head of US economics with Bank of America Global Research. For more information about the forum, please visit qgame.qu.edu.
