As head of risk management, Roy focuses on ensuring appropriate and adequate risk controls and operational efficiency at Samara Alpha. Formerly COO and CRO of Securitize Capital, he brings more than 20 years of experience in the finance industry. Previously, Roy was COO and CRO at Enigma Securities, a cryptocurrency liquidity provider, where he was responsible for front to back operations and risk. Prior to that, Roy was a managing director at Waterfall Asset Management, a premier structured credit hedge fund, where he implemented risk frameworks to monitor investments across more than 40 asset classes, including residential and commercial mortgages, student loans, and aircraft leases, among others. He began his career at Lehman Brothers, focusing on US Equities. Roy earned a BS in Finance from Babson College.
Samara Alpha Management, LLC, a Samara Asset Group (formerly Cryptology) company, is an institutional digital asset manager. The company offers sophisticated investors access to alternative sources of alpha through its crypto-focused multi-strategy fund-of-funds, hedge fund seeding and technology platforms. Fostering growth within an otherwise inefficient and fragmented market, the Samara Alpha team combines decades of operational expertise in traditional finance and risk management with its passion for crypto to curate distinct portfolios of risk-controlled strategies.