Simone Villa is the Director of Quantitative Engineering on the Quantitative Investment Strategies team at One River Switzerland. Prior to joining One River, Mr. Villa was an Executive Director on the Quantitative Investment Strategies team at LGT Capital Partners, where he led the team's quantitative infrastructure and technology platform from 2015. Before LGT, Mr. Villa oversaw quantitative analysis and risk management at Saint George Capital Management (Unipol Group) in Lugano, Switzerland, where he joined as a Quantitative Analyst in 2010. Prior to this, he was a Risk Analyst at Polaris Investment Italia SGR (Fondazione Cariplo) in Milan from 2008 to 2010, and a trainee in risk management at Pioneer Investments (UniCredit Group) in Milan. Mr. Villa holds an Executive MBA from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland. He also holds a PhD, MSc, and BSc in Computer Science from the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He has authored scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Mr. Villa also holds the Financial Risk Manager (FRM), Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management (ARPM), and Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designations. He is fluent in Italian and English.