Shanta Puchtler is President of Man Group and a member of the Man Group Senior Executive Committee. He also leads Man Group’s Data Science group as well as the firm’s Quantitative Alpha Research Lab in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Previously, Shanta was CEO of Man Numeric and prior to that, co-CIO and Head of Research, directing research efforts focused on new alpha sources, product design and risk modelling. Prior to joining Man Numeric in 1999 as a research analyst, Shanta was an electronic commerce technology analyst at Forrester Research, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based market research firm. He also co-founded an electronic commerce company, which focused on the analysis of on-line buying behavior.

Shanta received a Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science from Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude, and is a CFA® charterholder.