Marina Lutova Meyers
Portfolio Manager, Partner, BlueMountain
Marina Lutova Meyers is a Portfolio Manager responsible for BlueMountain’s Long/Short Credit North America and Index Arbitrage strategies. Ms. Meyers also oversees global trade execution, and is a member of the Firm’s Management, Investment and Hiring Committees. Ms. Meyers joined BlueMountain in 2007 from Bridgewater Associates, where she started as a Senior Investment Associate in the Portfolio Analytics Group, and later worked with the CEO in a management capacity in the Technology Group. Prior to Bridgewater, Ms. Meyers worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company, focusing on the financial services industry (insurance and asset management).
Ms. Meyers earned an M.B.A from Harvard Business School and an M.P.A in International Development from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She received her B.A. in Economics and Government, summa cum laude, from Franklin and Marshall College.
Melissa M. Reilly
Chief Investment Officer, Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR Co.)
Melissa Reilly is a chief investment officer at Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR Co.), the investment advisor for Fidelity’s family of mutual funds. Fidelity Investments is a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals, institutions and financial intermediaries.
In this role, Ms. Reilly acts as chief investment officer for a number of teams, including the Large Cap Core, Growth, and Capital Appreciation teams. Additionally, she serves as leader of the Equity Capital Markets and Institutional Portfolio Management teams.
Prior to assuming her current responsibilities, Ms. Reilly held various other roles with Fidelity, including that of portfolio manager of Fidelity Europe Capital Appreciation Fund, Fidelity Advisor Europe Capital Appreciation Fund, and the Europe portion of Fidelity Global Balanced Fund from 2007 to 2013, portfolio manager of Fidelity Nordic Fund from 2009 to 2011 and Fidelity Europe Fund from 2008 to 2012, and research analyst in the Global Research Group from 2004 to 2007.
Before joining Fidelity in 2004, she worked as a senior vice president, portfolio manager, and International Core research analyst at Putnam Investments from 1999 to 2004, an associate in Equity Research at Morgan Stanley & Co., and as a staff consultant at Anderson Consulting, where she began her career in 1993. She has been in the investments industry since 1993.
Ms. Reilly earned her bachelor of arts degree in economics from Columbia University and her master of business administration degree from the University of Chicago.
Torsten Slok, Ph.D.
Chief International Economist, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Securities
Torsten Slok joined Deutsche Bank Securities in the fall of 2005. Mr. Slok’s Economics team has been top-ranked by Institutional Investor in fixed income and equities for the past five years. Slok currently serves as a member of the Economic Club of New York
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Slok worked at the OECD in Paris in the Money and Finance Division and the Structural Policy Analysis Division. Before joining the OECD he worked for four years at the IMF in the Division responsible for writing the World Economic Outlook and the Division responsible for China, Hong Kong, and Mongolia.
Mr. Slok studied at University of Copenhagen and Princeton University. He has published numerous journal articles and reviews on economics and policy analysis, including in Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, and The Econometric Journal.
Mark D. Wiseman
Global Head of Active Equities and Chairman BlackRock Alternative Investors, BlackRock
Mark is Global Head of Active Equities for BlackRock and Chairman of BlackRock Alternative Investors. A Senior Managing Director, he also serves as Chairman of the firm’s Global Investment Committee and on its Global Executive Committee.
Mark joined BlackRock in 2016 from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) where he served as its President and CEO since 2012. Before becoming CEO, Mark was Executive Vice-President, Investments, for CPPIB and was responsible for managing all of the organization’s investment activities. He joined CPPIB in June 2005 as Senior Vice-President, Private Investments.
Prior to joining CPPIB, Mark was responsible for the private equity fund and co-investment program at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. He has worked as an officer with Harrowston Inc., a publicly traded Canadian merchant bank, and as a lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell, where he practiced in New York and Paris. He also served as a law clerk to Madam Justice Beverley McLachlin at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Mark earned a bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University as well as a law degree and an MBA from the University of Toronto. He also was a Fulbright Scholar at Yale University, where he obtained a Master of Laws degree. Mark is a regular lecturer at the Harvard Business School and an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University.
Mark is a member of the Advisory Council on Economic Growth, which advises the Canadian Finance Minister on economic policies to achieve long-term, sustainable growth. He is also the Chairman of the Focusing Capital on the Long Term initiative, which he co-founded.
Mark serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including Sinai Health Services in Toronto, the Capital Markets Institute and the Dean’s Advisory Board at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Mark is a certified member of the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors.
Heidi Fischer
Managing Director and the Head of Equity Electronic Trading, Americas, Deutsche Bank Securities
Heidi manages a team spanning sales, sales trading, and execution consulting for electronic equities cash and listed options. Heidi is a member of the Americas Regional Management Forum, the Global
Electronic Trading Operating Committee, the North American Cash Management Forum, and a voting member of the North American Best Execution Council. In addition to her day to day responsibilities, Heidi sits on the Women’s Network Steering committee, manages the promotion process for Americas Equities, and sits on the Markets Graduate Advisory Board. Outside of Deutsche Bank, Heidi is a member of the National Organization of Investment Professionals (NOIP), sits on the STA Women in Finance Steering Committee, was awarded the Markets Media Women in Finance Award for “Excellence in Equities” in 2016, and was named the 2015 Mentor of the Year by Traders Magazine in their annual Women in Trading awards.
Heidi earned a MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University with an emphasis on Finance and Management as well as a BS in Finance from Indiana University. Prior to business school, Heidi worked as a litigation consultant for a niche firm providing expert financial witnesses for large commercial law suits.
