Dr. Jeremy Evnine is the Research Team Lead at Manifold Partners. He founded Evnine & Associates in 1991, a quantitative asset management company. Previously, he was a founding partner at Iris Financial Engineering & Systems. From 1984 to 1990, he was a Senior Vice President in charge of research at Barclays Global Investors. Prior to BGI, Dr. Evnine was a Consultant at BARRA, where he developed the firm's option products. He has taught courses in Finance at UC Berkeley, is widely published, and has lectured worldwide. Dr. Evnine holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Manchester University in England, an M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Finance from the UC Berkeley.