Jacob Pozharny

Jacob Pozharny, PhD, is a partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer at Bridgeway Capital Management, LLC, where he leads the firm's international and alternative equity investing efforts. He is responsible for developing quantitative international and global equity strategies, including alternative strategies such as long-short portfolios, and also contributes to the US equity team. His key focus areas are international equities, global markets, and alternative asset classes, with a strong emphasis on quantitative methods and research into intangible assets.

Before joining Bridgeway in 2018, Jacob held senior roles as head of international equity research and portfolio management at QMA (a PGIM company) and as head of international quantitative equity at TIAA-CREF (now TIAA). He began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, consulted for BCA Research in Montreal, and managed institutional equity portfolios at Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management.

Jacob holds a PhD and MS in Applied Statistics from the University of California, Riverside, an MS in Applied Economics and Finance, and a BA in Economics from UC Santa Cruz. Highly regarded for his quantitative expertise, he has published research in leading journals such as the Financial Analysts Journal and Journal of Portfolio Management, and contributed to frontier topics including intangible asset valuation in equity investing.