Joe Mezrich has been Managing Director, Head of Quantitative Research, at Nomura Securities International since January 2006. He was previously Managing Director, Head of US Quantitative & Derivatives Research at UBS, in that role since 2002. At UBS he was ranked #1 by Institutional Investor for global quant. From 1998 to 2002 he was Head of Quantitative Strategies/Quantitative Strategist at Morgan Stanley. He was a member of Morgan’s Macro Strategy team. From 1987 to 1998 he was deputy head of the Equity Portfolio Analytics group at Salomon Brothers. Joe received the Ph.D. in Mathematical Psychology and MA in Statistics from the University of Michigan, and received the EE and the SM degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.