About Cordatius |
What's Unique
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Cordatius helps long-term investors deal with their investment office digital transformation projects across both quantitative and qualitative fields.
We analyze your problems and resolve them with forward looking systems and processes. Our goal is to equip your investment office for the years to come, not for the years-past. 100% of our clients have tried it on their own first, and failed. “Intelligence is the ability to learn from your mistakes. Wisdom is the ability to learn from the mistakes of others.” – Anonymous. |
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Ken Akoundi - PhD
Influenced by the lack of expertise available to Long-term Investors, Ken founded Cordatius, an agency-based management consulting company focusing on the investment offices of the long-term investors, across policies, technology, processes, and operations. Since 2016, Cordatius has placed itself on the forefront of investment office digital transformation.
Ken was the President of ASPN Solutions (a spin-off of Protégé Partners), Head of Capital Markets business for EletrifAI (a spin-off of McKinsey), Head ofPension Strategies and Solutions group at Deutsche Bank, and Head of Risk Management at Optima Fund Management. In 1998, he co-founded RiskMetrics Group (acquired by MSCI) where he held the position of Chief Knowledge Officer. Ken began his career at J.P. Morgan after completing a Doctorate in Civil Engineering at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. |
Kartik Uchil, MBA
Kartik has worked as a consultant with Cordatius since 2019, before he was brought on board full-time in 2020. Prior, he was engaged in completing an MBA in Investment Management and Information Systems at Pace University, where he was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma honor society.
Kartik worked as an investment analyst for the hedge fund team at Eastmore Group, and an analyst/intern at Context Summits. He has completed financial certifications, including NSE India, BSE India, and Bloomberg Market Concepts. |
Consortia Maximus
Frederick (Rick) Funston
Rick is the Chief Executive Officer of Funston Advisory Services LLC (FAS). Since 2010, Funston Advisory Services has performed numerous reviews of public retirement systems' governance, strategy, risk, operations, compliance and control. FAS also provides related fiduciary consulting services and board and executive education. Since founding Funston Advisory Services in 2010, Rick has led a series of assignments....
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Brett Friedman
Mr. Friedman is a managing partner of Winhall Analytics. He has managed risk for over 30 years and has broad experience working with financial institutions in risk management and operations. He has built and managed three risk management organizations from scratch, two trading startups, and has selected and installed several risk management systems. He brings a vast amount of first-hand management, operations, and valuation experience.
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Karyn Williams
Karyn Williams is Regional Investment Manager, North America, for Zurich Global Investment Management, Zurich. Before Zurich, Karyn founded Hightree Advisors, LLC an independent financial technology firm that provides investment intelligence and easy to understand risk information to CIOs and asset and wealth managers securely and scalably.
Karyn has 20-year history of success in designing and implementing effective investment programs for a wide variety of organizations in senior roles at leading investment consulting, insurance, and asset management firms. Over her career, she gained a deep understanding of the benefits that can be achieved through understanding and managing risk, and sustaining real dollar value improvements in investment performance. More on linkedin |