Ryan is a director in the Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management Group. He is responsible for overseeing model development, signal research, and alpha generation processes for NISA’s quantitative equity strategies.
Prior to joining NISA in 2025, Ryan was a member of the Multi-Asset Strategies Group at Teacher Retirement System (TRS) of Texas and was the head of research for quantitative equity efforts and served as a member of the Investment Committee for the Multi-Asset Strategies Group. During his tenure, he co-led the efforts to launch the first internally managed Equity Market Neutral strategy in 2015, which evolved into an equity extension program surpassing $25 billion in AUM by his exit in 2025. He has more than ten years of experience managing beta-one and market neutral strategies.
Ryan earned an MBA from Rice University, MS in Geotechnical Engineering, and BS in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a Chartered Financial Analyst® charterholder.