People


Mark Spitznagel
President & CIO

Eric Spencer
CFO/Head of Investor Relations/CCO

Nassim Taleb
Distinguished Scientific Advisor


Mark Spitznagel’s almost 20-year investment career has spanned from Morgan Stanley proprietary trader (head of equity options in the Process Driven Trading group) to partner and President at Empirica Capital LLC to independent pit-trader at the Chicago Board of Trade (the youngest local in the bond pit). Mark received an M.S. in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and a B.A. from Kalamazoo College.