Vaibhav Kapoor
Chief Data Scientist & Chief Product Officer – Risk & Performance Management
Vaibhav serves as Chief Data Scientist at EDS, where he leads the firm's risk and performance attribution methodology and sets the product direction for the Risk & Performance Management platform, which integrates third-party factor models and portfolio data into analytics that investment teams rely on throughout the trading day. He brings more than two decades in quantitative risk and portfolio analytics at leading hedge funds and asset managers. Most recently he was Vice President of Investment Risk, Multi-Asset at AllianceBernstein, leading PM-facing risk and analytics across 50+ portfolios spanning equities, rates, credit, volatility, and commodities. Earlier he built risk and factor analytics for over 100 equity portfolios at Point72, with prior roles at Millennium, Commonfund, and UBS. Vaibhav holds an M.S. in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT (BHU), Varanasi, and is a certified FRM and CQF charterholder.