The Obex Team
ALLAN ZAVARRO, Senior Advisor
Mr. Zavarro is an active Senior Advisor to Prime Capital (Bermuda) Limited and an investor in OBEX Group LLC.
Mr. Zavarro was Chief Executive Officer of the Global Futures business at ABN AMRO for nine years. He was responsible for running the day to day operations of the business. Allan orchestrated the sale of the ABN Global Futures business to Union Bank of Switzerland in 2006 for more than 30 times its purchase price from Citibank. Prior to ABN, Allan was President and CEO of Citicorp Futures.
Prior to Citicorp, Allan was Marketing Manager and Chief Executive of Merrill Lynch’s wholesale securities business; Broadcourt Capital Corporation and earlier Chief Executive Officer of Merrill Lynch Futures Inc.
Mr. Zavarro majored in English at Southern Illinois University. He resides with his wife in Princeton, NJ and Palm Beach, Florida.
NAN JIANG, PHD, Senior Quantitative Analyst
Nan has been working at OBEX since 2017.
For several years, Nan taught Economics at Fordham University (Bronx, NY). He holds a B.S. in Finance from Shanghai University and an M.S. in International Economics and Finance from Valparaiso University. In May 2023 he completed his Ph.D. in financial economics under the supervision of D. Frank Hsu.
Most recently, Nan has been active in Econometrics and Microeconomics. He has published several working papers including "Equity Ranking with Stochastic Dominance and Combinatorial Fusion Analysis."
With more than 11 years of complementary work experience, Nan is a proficient data analyst with a strong finance background. He possesses numeracy and programming skills including Python, MATLAB, Stata, SPSS, and MINITAB.
FRANK HSU, PHD, Chief Research Advisor
Dr. Frank Hsu is the Clavius Distinguished Professor of Science, a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, and the Director of Fordham Laboratory of Informatics and Data Mining at Fordham University.
He received a B.A. from Cheng Kung University, an M.A. from the University of Texas at El Paso, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Hsu co-organized several university workshops and forums in partnership with IBM and delivered over 400 speeches at conferences and institutions around the world. He co-founded the International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS) in 2009. Dr. Hsu has authored 40 books and published over 200 technical papers. With Dr. Paul Erdos, one of the foremost mathematicians of the 20th century, he co-authored "Distributed Loop Network with Minimum Transmission Delay" (1992). He was elected Fellow by the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications in 1990, the New York Academy of Sciences in 1999, and the International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing in 2012, and is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Dr. Hsu and Mr. Katzenstein have been collaborating for over thirty years.
AVITAL PILPEL, PHD, Senior Research Advisor
Dr. Avital Pilpel holds a B.Sc. in mathematics and humanities from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University (New York), under the supervision of Prof. Isaac Levi, holder of the John Dewey Chair in Philosophy.
His experience includes more than 17 years teaching philosophy courses at major U.S. and Israeli universities in history, communications, education, and critical thinking. He has published many papers in philosophy, particularly in the field of rational choice. He is also a reserve officer in the IDF's historical research department, writing research papers in military history.
Dr. Pilpel's expertise across philosophical traditions and theories has provided a valued contribution to OVPS' development.
REGGIE HENDERSON, Quantitative Analyst
Reggie began his career in systemized commodity trading in the US and Japan at Mitsui & Co. He then moved into software development for financial derivatives risk management at Citibank, followed by 20 years at The Kamakura Corporation, which has since been acquired by SAS Institute.
Reggie is involved in developing, operating, and evaluating the systemized trading of OVPS. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University and an M.S. in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology.
REY JIMENEZ, Head of Information Technology
With over forty years of experience and more than twenty years with OBEX, Rey is responsible for the continual process of upgrading systems, applications, and technologies on a global basis, as well as for the integrity and security of all proprietary and non-proprietary data.
He oversees the assessment, design, and implementation of the firm's Disaster Recovery site, including total replication and redundancy of applications, real-time data, market data services, email, and telephony.