Officers of the Operations and Finance Committee
Lydia Samuel
President
Yashkaran Sidhu
Vice President
Amir Murad
Vice President
Officers of the Investment Committee
Christopher Lindholm
President
Aarya Walvekar
Vice President
Reema Hammad
Vice President
Raheeg Joari Vice President
Officers of the Risk Committee
Katuta Kapinka
President
Matthew Rickard
Vice President
John Shaffer
Vice President
Fund Supervisors
Trevor Montano
Trevor Montano, a benefactor of the Montano Student Investment Fund, is a Mason alumnus who cofounded the Fund along with Dr. Derek Horstmeyer. Montano is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Founder and Managing Member of West Potomac Capital LLC.
Dr. Alexander Philipov
Office: Enterprise 227
Phone: 703-993-9762
Dr. Philipov completed his MS in Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and PhD in Finance at Boston College. His research focusing on asset pricing, risk management, and credit risk has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and other finance and economics journals.
Dr. Derek Horstmeyer
Office: Enterprise 107
Phone: 703-993-9761
Dr. Horstmeyer completed his MS in Financial Mathematics at Stanford University and PhD in Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on boards, ETF & mutual fund performance, and hedge fund activism. In addition to publications in the Quarterly Journal of Finance and Managerial Finance, Horstmeyer writes a monthly column for the Wall Street Journal, and his work has been cited in outlets such as Forbes, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune, and many others.
Former Officers of the Fund
Julianna Silinksy
Jaehee Lee
Manya Vij
Rudy Kessinger
Corey Brooks
Khalid Al-Masri
Nainoksha Kaushal
Cliff Louison
Taylor Smith
Karim Azero
Ana García
Elan Guzmán
Omar Shatt
Christian Gameos
Justin Boileau
Lu Wang
Ali Kahil
Khrista McWhorter
Alexis Jackson
Valerie Mayer
Ethan Ioannou
Ioana Baranga
Ano Glonti
Ashley Reichert
Myriam Cisse
Jianyong Shi
Baylee Deivert
Ryan Morris
Morgan Rink
Joshua O’Neil
Natalia Palacios
Elan Guzmán
Abdilkhaliq Halane
Dylan Peacock
Eleri Burnett
Sam Fadle
Troy Watson
Sufia Rauf
Maximilian Simkins
Daniel Arguedas-Cornejo
Eric Dzik
Polina Kapovska
Mike Brynda
Beau Fitzpatrick
Brian Peirce
Aidan Eccles
Stephanie Fincher
Amber Wilkins
Decker Barborek
David Carrillo
Tyler Harb