Leslie Baccini brings a wealth of knowledge from a career in hedge fund strategy communication and equity research sales into her new role. With more than 120k members, she believes that the ability to find hidden quant talent globally is fundamentally changing the HF landscape.
“Leslie has a proven track record of success with investors,” says John Fawcett, founder and CEO of Quantopian. “As we prepare to manage external capital later this year, her skills will be critical in communicating with those investors who choose Quantopian to manage their money with the best of our crowd-sourced investment algorithms.” Baccini joins Quantopian from The Boston Company, where she was responsible for communicating the firm’s hedge fund strategies to clients and prospective clients.
http://www.hedgeweek.com/2017/03/16/249664/quantopian-hires-director-investor-relations