George Bonne, PhD, PRM, joined MSCI in 2016 as Executive Director of Equity Factor Research, where he and his team work to create new and innovative factors to be used in MSCI’s analytics and index products. Current projects involve creating new Sentiment factors derived from options, short interest, and estimates data, creating an integrated crowding model, as well as exploring alternative big data sources and algorithms.

Prior to MSCI George was Director of Quantitative Research at Thomson Reuters StarMine where he worked for ten years to create novel alpha signals and other quantitative models for investment managers and received two US patents on quantitative models. Previous to StarMine George worked at Applied Materials and KLA-Tencor to create predictive models of the performance of semiconductor equipment.

George received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from UC Irvine. George is also a certified Professional Risk Manager (PRM).