Sharath Sury |
| Founder, Executive Director, and Chairman |
| Sury Initiative for Financial Innovation and Risk Management (SIFIRM) |
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United States |
About Sharath Sury
A financial professional and renowned economics scholar with years of experience, Sharath Sury brings an unusual level of expertise and wisdom to his work. Since 2006, Sharath Sury has served as Adjunct Professor of Finance at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, where he instructs students at the College of Commerce. In addition to his duties as Adjunct Professor, Sharath Sury has contributed to DePaul University as a member of its President’s Club, providing valuable resources for scholarships and to help them launch their computational finance program.
Sharath Sury also holds teaching positions at the University of California and Santa Clara University. Since 2008, Sharath Sury has been Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of California and Dean’s Executive Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University, where he founded the Initiative for Financial Innovation & Risk Management. Sharath Sury established the forum for finance professionals and experts in risk management to gather and discuss some of the most challenging topics facing the global economic climate. Sharath Sury’s research efforts include R&D on portfolio optimization under shortfall constraints; alternative investments and hedge fund replication; strategic asset allocation and active risk budgeting; and the investigation of investor preferences using behavioral finance principles.
Sharath Sury came to his current positions after a long and successful career in asset management and financial analysis. As the founder and the original CEO of S4 Capital, Sharath Sury handled the complex investment portfolios of some of the wealthiest families and individuals in the United States, earning recognition from Financial Advisor magazine, Wealth Manager Magazine, and the Bloomberg Wealth Manager Survey as one of the top professionals in his field. Prior to S4 Capital, Sharath Sury worked for Goldman Sachs in as a Vice President in its elite wealth management division. Sharath Sury holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California and an M.B.A. in Finance and Statistics from the University of Chicago.
