Vinva Investment Team

Morry is the founding Principal of Vinva, having started Vinva Investment Management in 2010. He is the Managing Director (MD) and Head of Investments. Morry oversees the strategic direction of Vinva and, in particular, leading the investment agenda and investment process.

Morry is a proven and experienced leader in the investment management industry who has a long-term track record of research innovation and delivery of investment performance to clients and was inducted into the Fund Manager Hall of Fame in 2023.

Prior to founding Vinva, Morry spent over 12 distinguished years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which was the largest investment manager in the world. Morry was Global Head and Chief Investment Officer for BGI’s Global Active Equity Business with responsibility for the Portfolio Management and Research functions of $300 billion in actively managed global equities. During his time, Morry lead BGI to numerous awards including Fund Manager of the Year and Asia Hedge Fund of the Year. He joined BGI in 1997 as Head of Equity Investments and developed an active equity business across long-only and long-short strategies. Morry established a highly successful investment team and designed an investment process that delivered outperformance in 11 out of 12 years. Morry also held the dual role of CEO and Chief Investment Officer for BGI’s Australian and NZ business.

Prior to joining BGI, Morry was the Head of Quantitative Research at Rothschild Asset Management having started his career at Legal & General in the Actuarial Research Division after being awarded a University Scholarship.

Morry holds a Master’s Degree in Economics (majoring in Actuarial Science and Statistics) and a Bachelor of Economics, both from Macquarie University.

Nick is a Principal of Vinva having been with the firm since its inception in 2010 and is a member of the Vinva Board. Nick heads up the portfolio management team responsible for managing the investment strategies including optimising for factors such as diversification, liquidity and transaction costs.

Prior to Vinva, Nick was the Senior Portfolio Manager at Barclays Global Investors (BGI) in their highly successful active equities team responsible for managing long only and long-short portfolios. In addition to managing portfolios, he enhanced the trading and monitoring technology for BGI’s active equity products.

Nick has proven portfolio management capabilities, strong trading insights and a proven track record of delivering investment performance to clients. Prior to BGI, Nick spent ten years with J.P. Morgan, in roles including Head of Quantitative Research and Head of Centralised Execution.

Nick holds a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Finance (Honours) from the University of NSW.

Juliane joined Vinva in 2021 as a Research Manager, focusing on researching new equity security selection models as well as looking for ways to enhance aspects of the existing investment process.

Prior to joining Vinva, Juliane worked at the ASX where she was responsible for quantitative risk modelling and market microstructure research. Previously, she spent 4 years in Data Science at a technology firm focused on high volume, high velocity and unstructured data.

Juliane holds a Bachelor of Science as well as a Master of Science (majoring in Business Administration and Civil Engineering) graduating with High Distinction from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. She completed her Master’s thesis in Behavioural Finance and was published in the Journal of Banking and Finance. Juliane has also completed a PhD in Finance at UNSW and has been the recipient of multiple scholarships.

Steve joined Vinva in 2012 as a Portfolio Manager, responsible for managing various investment strategies including optimising for factors such as diversification, liquidity and transaction costs.

Prior to Vinva, Steve was Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Strategy for J.P. Morgan Equity Research based in Hong Kong. In this role he was responsible for 6 international research desks covering all the major equity markets, advising the client base on systematic investment strategies and portfolio construction techniques as well as providing regular and ad hoc research publications and bespoke analysis.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, he spent 4 years at Credit Suisse working in Australian equity research as a member of the quantitative data analytics team. Before entering the finance industry, Steve spent 6 years designing and developing software systems for a variety of blue-chip companies in London, Dublin and Sydney.

Steve holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bristol University, UK, a Post Graduate Diploma in Knowledge Engineering and a Post Graduate Certificate in Applied Finance and Investment

Trent joined Vinva in 2012 as a Portfolio Manager, responsible for managing various investment strategies including optimising for factors such as diversification, liquidity and transaction costs.

Prior to joining Vinva, Trent spent 11 years at Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and BlackRock. From 2001-2008, Trent was a senior trader and portfolio manager with BGI in London where he focused primarily on the European active equity strategies which totalled $50bn in assets. Beyond his responsibilities of enhancing the trading process and platforms, Trent was also involved in launching and managing the mid horizon long-short active strategy.

In 2008 Trent moved to Sydney with BGI where he was Head of Asia Pacific Equity Trading. He was responsible for establishing and managing the Asia Pacific equity trading desk, enhancing BGI’s trading capabilities in the region, and responsible for the trading and implementation of all active Asian long-short equity strategies. In 2010, Trent was promoted to Managing Director and appointed Head of Trading across Asia Pacific for BlackRock, this involved all assets classes and investment products in the region. He was also a member of the Global Executive Trading Group and the Leadership Group.

Prior to joining BGI, Trent spent 5 years with BNP Paribas in the portfolio management and trading group.

Trent holds a Bachelor of Business from Newcastle University plus a Master of Finance and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance from the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia).

Abirami joined Vinva in 2021 while she was completing her PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of NSW (UNSW). Abirami is involved in researching new ideas and helping advance our proprietary optimisation processes.

Prior to joining Vinva, Abirami has previously worked in the data and analytics team at Ernst & Young and the quantitative solutions and risk team at HESTA.

She holds a Bachelor of Actuarial Studies and Bachelor of Advanced Mathematics (Honours) from UNSW graduating with First Class Honours and the University Medal. She also completed her PhD in Applied Mathematics in 2024. In addition, while at UNSW, Abirami was the recipient of the Paradice Honours Award in Mathematics and Statistics as well as The Faculty of Science Dean’s List Award. She also won the prize for Women in Mathematics and Statistics.

Danny joined Vinva in 2011 and as Research Director, is responsible for driving innovation in equity security selection models, risk and transaction cost modelling, portfolio construction, ESG integration, and other aspects of the investment process.

Before joining Vinva, Danny spent two years in London working as a portfolio manager in the fixed income team, managing Macquarie’s global sovereign fixed income funds. Prior to this, Danny worked as a quantitative research analyst at Macquarie, responsible for all facets of research, including the development of alpha generation strategies, risk models, and portfolio analytics across a suite of products.

Danny holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Actuarial Studies, graduating with distinction, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, where he graduated with First Class Honours and the University Medal, both from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He also holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Technology Sydney, where his research focused on market microstructure and investor trading behaviour in Australian equities.

TK joined Vinva in 2017 and is a Research Director, responsible for researching new equity security selection models and advancing our next generation of proprietary optimisation algorithms.

Prior to joining Vinva, he spent 11 years with BlackRock. TK is a senior investment professional with extensive global equity research experience focusing on global security selection models. He has also successfully applied machine learning algorithms on a global basis to equity strategies.

At BlackRock, he was a senior researcher in the Scientific Active Equity (SAE) team, where he worked on equity research projects across both quantitative & fundamental teams. He was awarded the best global equity research award in 2011 and 2012. TK was also a member of the Global Equity Research Approval Board, which had global responsibility for all equity research within BlackRock. On the portfolio management side, he helped build the research systems and portfolio management and optimisation tools.

TK holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Cape Town University where he graduated with First Class Honours and was on the Dean’s Merit List for 3 years running. He was also awarded Best Electrical Engineering Student in South Africa. He is a CFA charterholder, along with having a PhD from Monash University, where he was a Scholarship holder, majoring in Statistical Machine Learning and High Dimensional Data Analysis.

Rob joined Vinva in 2020 as a Research Manager, focusing on researching new equity security selection models as well as looking for ways to enhance aspects of our existing investment process. Rob has extensive experience developing quantitative models, having built and used machine learning methods in financial markets, as well as for computer vision and NLP problems.

Prior to joining Vinva, Rob worked for 57degrees, an AI robotics company in the UK, where he was a Lead Scientist, researching and developing classification and semantic segmentation neural networks for computer vision that integrated into the robot’s 3D environment mapping framework. Prior to that, Rob worked in London for Aberdeen Standard Investments for over 10 years, most recently a quantitative investment manager, Macro Systematic Strategies, in the Multi-Asset group. After completing University, Rob was selected in the Credit Suisse Asset Management Graduate program in Sydney.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Science (Advanced) majoring in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Sydney University where he was the recipient of the Tim Brown Prize (1st place overall for final year statistics). He also completed an Honours year in Statistics, where he graduated with First Class Honours.

Ethan Hansen joined Vinva in June 2024 as a portfolio analyst responsible for enhancing Vinva’s portfolio management and trading systems. Prior to joining Vinva, he worked at high frequency trading firm IMC, where he developed proprietary execution technology for the Asia region. In this role he developed ultra-low latency order and feed management systems. He also served as a C++ educator and was involved in helping run IMC’s internship program.

Ethan’s career so far has spanned a range of technical roles across various sectors. At the Macquarie-owned Paraway Pastoral, he developed technology that integrated satellite imagery to analyse and report on soil quality (NDVI) of their expansive network of agricultural properties. He was involved in designing and developing automated systems for monitoring and controlling vertical farming environments. He has also worked in other roles where he focused on engineering and developing solutions dealing with large-scale and time-sensitive data.

Ethan graduated with a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of New South Wales, where he earned a full Scholarship for Computer Science, and was recognised on the Dean’s Honours List for every eligible year. Whilst at University, he led a team to build an AI note-taking platform, partnering with the Faculty of Medicine, that ended up being used extensively within the university and garnering thousands of users more broadly.

Jenny joined Vinva in 2013 and is responsible for the development, implementation and management of applications and data feeds for the business. In addition to this she maintains Vinva’s proprietary investment data and assists with the advancement of Vinva’s proprietary investment technology platform.

Prior to joining Vinva, Jenny spent 8 years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and BlackRock. Jenny is a technology professional who has extensive experience working closely with business units implementing key software solutions in addition to a variety of end-to-end process automation. Jenny is a specialist across detailed business analysis, proprietary software development and solution implementation through to investment process support.

Before joining BGI, Jenny worked with Logica as a software developer in several Government initiatives including the Gas Retail Market Business System, NSW Greenhouse Gas Registry System and Department of Commerce eBusiness procurement project. She started her IT career with Westpac as part of their graduate program while undertaking her bachelor degree.

Jenny holds a Bachelor of Computing Science from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Master of Information Technology from Charles Sturt University.

Duncan has been with Vinva since the business’ inception in 2010. He is an Investment Technology professional with over 25 years’ experience developing systems for the funds management industry. He has proven ability with design, coding and implementation of industry leading investment management infrastructure and software systems.

Prior to joining Vinva, Duncan spent 12 years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and BlackRock in key roles leading the design and implementation of the investment technology platforms and proprietary portfolio management systems. He was also responsible for establishing and managing proprietary data feeds with internal and external data suppliers.

Duncan commenced his career with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Sydney responsible for all in-house risk management and portfolio attribution systems.

Gangeyan has been with Vinva since 2010 and is responsible for the development, implementation and management of applications and data feeds for the business. In addition to this, he maintains Vinva’s proprietary investment data and assists with the advancement of Vinva’s proprietary investment technology platform.

Prior to joining Vinva, Gangeyan spent 6 years at Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and BlackRock.  At BGI, he held several roles including Senior Design and Development Engineer, responsible for developing and implementing an Australian ETF platform, and Equities Systems Analyst in the Australian Equities Team developing investment signals. Before joining BGI, he was Senior Development Engineer at British Aerospace Engineering where he received the Chairman’s Award for Innovation for designing and developing an Objective Management System.

Gangeyan holds a Masters of Science degree from the University of Westminster, UK.

John joined Vinva in 2016 and is responsible for the development, implementation and management of applications and data feeds for the business. In addition to this, he maintains Vinva’s proprietary investment data and assists with the advancement of Vinva’s proprietary investment technology platform.

Prior to joining Vinva, John spent 14 years at Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and BlackRock where he held several roles including leading the Development Team. He was responsible for the development, implementation and management of applications and data feeds, primarily for the back and middle office and for the consolidation of a large portfolio of applications from across the business, and integrating local and global systems.

Prior to joining BGI, John’s experience includes 7 years at Dresdner Bank AG working as a Senior Software Engineer for both the front and back office across the areas of Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income, Compliance and Operations. This followed an earlier IT role at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).

John holds a Bachelor of Applied Science, majoring in Mathematics and Computing from the University of Technology, Sydney.