Vladimir Zdorovtsov, Ph.D.

Vlad joined Acadian in 2019 and is Director of Global Equity Research. Previously, he was a managing director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), co-leading a quantitative equity research team within the firm’s fundamental equity and direct alternatives units. In this role, Vlad’s focus was on alpha capture and the integration of quantitative alpha, risk, and portfolio construction techniques. Prior to that, he was the head of research at Rosetta Analytics, Inc., a machine learning hedge fund. Vlad received a Ph.D. in finance from the University of South Carolina and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Arkansas as well as a B.A. in international economics from Sumy State University, Ukraine.