Team

Executive Team

Jay Sivadas

Co-President

Jay Sivadas is a fourth-year computer science student. Apart from serving as Co-President of PNG, he is a member of the Blue Chips Investment Club, the Quantitative Trading focused Financial Markets Program, and was a catcher on the baseball team at UChicago. He has earned internships in Software Engineering at Microsoft, Growth Equity at Golub Capital, Distressed and Special Situations Investments at Arena Investors, and will be joining Morgan Stanley full time in Investment Banking in New York.

Erin Ku

Co-President

Erin is a fourth-year majoring in Business Economics with a minor in Data Science. This past summer, she interned at RBC Capital Markets within their Mergers and Acquisitions group in New York, NY. Previously, Erin worked for Guggenheim Partners as a Summer 2022 Investment Analyst through the Girls Who Invest program as well as a Financial Analyst at Manifest. Apart from serving as Co-President of PNG, Erin is also the President/Founder of UChicago Out For Business and is a former Executive Officer in Delta Sigma Pi.

Anna Bansal

Senior Vice President

Anna is a junior at the College, pursuing a major in Economics and a minor in Statistics. Outside of PNG, Anna is involved with many on campus extracurriculars including The Blue Chips, Midway Ventures, and the Trott Business program. This summer, Anna participated in the Girls Who Invest Summer Intensive Program and interned at Sixth Street in credit investing. Anna enjoys playing tennis, pilates, and trying new restaurants in Chicago! Anna will be joining Goldman Sachs next summer.

Raphael Jimenez

Head of DEI

Raphael is a fourth-year studying Business Economics and Public Policy, minoring in astrophysics. He has worked at J.P. Morgan Chase for the past two summers and has experience in both domestic and Latin American asset management. Outside of PNG, he is involved in The Blue Chips investment club, the Trott Business Program, Comer Tutors, Moneythink, and has aided in the creation of a number of diversity RSOs on campus for Latinos and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Isabella Trainor

Head of Outreach

Isabella is a second-year double majoring in Economics and Psychology. In addition to serving as the VP of Outreach for Paragon National Group, Isabella is the Treasurer for the Business Organization for Latino Development. She is also a member of the Undergraduate Investment Banking Group, Women in Business, and the Trott Business Program. In her free time, she enjoys running, cooking, and traveling. Over the summer, Isabella worked in Wellington Management.

Souptik De

Co-Head of Recruitment

Soupy is a 3rd-year from Austin, Texas, studying Statistics and Economics. He is interested in quant trading, probability models, and game theory. On campus, he is also the Director of Finance for MoneyThink. In his free time, he enjoys lifting, watching football, buying and selling sneakers, and practicing mental math. He is currently a Quant Researcher for Kershner Trading, developing equity trading performance metric tools for the trading team.

Leena Tantawy

Co-Head of Recruitment

Leena is a second-year from San Jose, California, studying Computer Science and Economics. Outside of PNG, she is a consultant for Eckhart Consulting, a member of the business and tech sector of UChicago's International Leadership Council, and a member of the Booth tech entrepreneurship program Prototype for Success. In her free time, she loves to play soccer, go on runs, and explore restaurants in Chicago. This past summer, Leena returned to the Bay Area to intern for IBM with their Quantum and Machine Learning Research teams as a Software Engineer. She hopes to continue building a career in Machine Learning and Finance.

Committee Members

Advay Mohindra

Chair of the Investment Committee

Advay Mohindra is a fourth-year Economics student at the University of Chicago. Outside of PNG, he is a member of The Blue Chips Investment Club, the Alpha Kappa Psi Beta Epsilon business fraternity, and the Trott Business Program at UChicago. Advay has worked at Accel-KKR--a 14-billion dollar technology private equity firm--, in investment banking at Credit Suisse, and will be joining Citadel in their Long / Short equities team full-time as an investment associate.

Bradley Yu

Head of Quantitative Research

Bradley is a fourth-year mathematics student. On-campus, he was a member of Maroon Capital and the Financial Markets Program and is also on the UChicago Men's Tennis Team. Bradley enjoys playing chess, poker, and various board games as well as creating questionable food concoctions in his free time. Previously, he interned as a Quantitative Research and Trading Intern at Quantedge which is a systematic global macro hedge fund based in Singapore. This past summer he worked as a Trading Intern at Citadel Securities.

Brianna Liu

Investment Committee Representative

Bri is a senior from Omaha, Nebraska studying Business Economics. She is a member of the varsity women's tennis team, Midway Ventures, and The Blue Chips and a board member of UIBG. This past summer, Bri worked as a summer analyst at Qatalyst. Previously, she was a Girls Who Invest scholar and worked as a summer analyst in growth and private equity. In her free time, she loves to lift, paint, try new restaurants, listen to podcasts, and journal.

Silvia Aydinyan

Investment Committee Representative

Silvia Aydinyan is a junior studying Economics and Political Science. Last summer, she worked at Baird through the Girls Who Invest program. This past summer, she worked in Investment Banking Summer Analyst at a Boutique Investment Bank in New York. Apart from being a Founding Board Member of PNG, Silvia is also involved in Alpha Omicron Pi, WiB, SWS, and Trott Business Program. In her free time, she coaches a top-ranking high school debate team and also enjoys baking, chess, and exploring new restaurants with friends.

John Hahn

Quantitative Research Committee Representative

John is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Chicago with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Data Science. Last summer, John interned for Edovo, a Chicago-based startup, as an application developer, using ReactJS and Javalite. His favorite language to code in is Python. Aside from coding-related experience, John also has held the position of the social chair of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, and has worked as a MATH130s TA and a VCA at Ratner/Crown. Last summer, John worked at Amazon as a software development engineer intern.

Robert Liu

Quantitative Research Committee Representative

Robert Liu is a rising third year studying computer science and astrophysics. He has worked on instrumentation and data science for MAROON-X, UChicago's EPRV spectrograph designed to detect exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs, and has coauthored a SPIE paper on the instrument's findings. Outside of PNG, Robert is involved with the Phoenix Development Fund, the Financial Markets Program, and Algo Group. He has interned in ML/AI product development at FlightAware, Flexport, Palantir Technologies, and SpaceX Starlink.

Portfolio Managers

Willem Vroom

Portfolio Manager

Willem is a rising third-year studying economics from Brooklyn, New York. In addition to PNG, he leads the TMT sector for The Blue Chips and is a board member of the Undergraduate Investment Banking Group. This summer, Willem will work at the multi-strategy hedge fund Arena Investors in New York City and the following summer at Qatalyst Partners in San Francisco.

Clara Ee

Portfolio Manager

Clara is a junior at UChicago studying Economics and Political Science. She is a portfolio manager at PNG and her areas of interest include software, semiconductors, credit and event-driven strategies. Apart from investing, she is also enjoys baking, painting and running in her free time. This past summer, she interned on the buyouts team at Accel-KKR and will be working at a multi-strategy hedge fund in the coming summer.

Ronak Datta

Portfolio Manager

Ronak Datta is a third-year studying Economics and Statistics. On campus he is involved with the Impact Investing Group, the Phoenix Sustainability Initiative, the Financial Markets Program, and the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. He is currently interning at an early-stage tech VC fund and working at a startup focused on high-performance computing and synthetic data and has previously interned in LMM private equity roles. This coming summer, he will be doing tech growth investing at Volition Capital. In his free time, Ronak enjoys playing golf, coaching AAU basketball, and trying new restaurants.

Isha Sharma

Portfolio Manager

Isha Sharma is a second-year studying Economics and Computer Science. In addition to PNG, she is also a member of Phoenix Funds, TAMID Group, and the Trott Business Program. In her free time, she can be found playing soccer, at a cafe, or on the quad. She has pursued her interests in investing, finance, and machine learning through work at the Griffin Applied Economics Incubator and interning at micro-private equity funds. Isha will be joining GTCR as a private equity summer analyst next summer.

Tony Yu

Portfolio Manager

Tony Yu is a third-year molecular engineering and economics student. He can often be found skipping his 8:30am classes and working at Ex Libris Cafe. Besides PNG, he is also involved with Alpha Kappa Psi, Maroon Capital, and the Financial Markets Program. Last summer, he interned at Blackthorne Capital Management, a quantitative hedge fund.

Jason Wang

Portfolio Manager

Jason Wang is a first-year Economics and Statistics major from Houston, Texas. He is interested in investina. On campus, he is a member of The Blue Chips Investment Club, and spends his free time playing chess, spikeball, and piano. This summer, he will be working in energy asset structuring at Constellation.

Marcos Rodriguez

Portfolio Manager

Marcos is a second-year Business Economics and Data Science major interested in Asset/Wealth management and Private Equity. Last summer, he worked as a Private Equity intern at Nickel Capital partners. He also writes equity analysis articles on Seeking Alpha. Outside of PNG, Marcos is involved with ILC: Finance, the Financial Markets program, and is a research assistant with the Economics department.