Our People

At Vident, we bring together the right people to tackle our clients’ cutting-edge problems while bringing a mindset of fiduciary responsibility and passion to the innovative side of financial services.

Rafael Zayas

Rafael Zayas, CFA

SVP, Head of Portfolio Management
& Trading

Mr. Zayas has over 15 years of trading and portfolio management experience in global equity products and ETFs. He is Senior Vice President, Head of Portfolio Management and Trading. Previously, Mr. Zayas focused on international equities, specializing in managing and trading developed, emerging, and frontier market portfolios. Prior to joining Vident Investment Advisory, Mr. Zayas was a Portfolio Manager at Russell Investments for over $5 billion in quantitative strategies across global markets, including emerging, developed, and frontier markets and listed alternatives. Before that, he was an equity Portfolio Manager at BNY Mellon Asset Management, where he was responsible for $150 million in internationally listed global equity ETFs and assisted in managing $3 billion of global ETF assets. Mr. Zayas holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

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