Marcos Elias

Marcos Eduardo Elias, born 16 May 1971 in São Paulo, Brazil, is a financier, coder, philanthropist and robotics engineer. He gained notoriety as a stock analyst, and thereafter, as a fund manager.

Marcos Elias

In 2006, he has solely founded Galleas Asset Management, a midcap dedicated asset management firm, and, by 2009, Empiricus Research, first Brazilian equity research house independent of financial institutions.

He is a Professor at the Economics School of Fundação Getúlio Vargas, lecturing on Non-Gaussian Finance for the Masters of Economics program and at Ibmec/SP, where he taught corporate valuation techniques.

Personal life[edit]

Marcos Eduardo Elias is the only male child of Wilson Elias (Brazilian, Syrian descendant, belonging to Al-Akhras family, Homs) and Lúcia Thereza Falanga (Brazilian, Italian descendant, whose parents are from Torre del Greco and Lauria). He holds dual citizenship (Brazilian and Italian) and he has two sisters: Ana Paula, economist from PUCSP, and Fernanda Elias, who is a veterinarian doctor, having earned advanced degrees at Universidade de São Paulo.

Marcos is married to Joelma Garcia de Andrade (since April 15, 2000), a computer analyst, from PUCSP, born in Penápolis, São Paulo on April 11, 1973. Together, they have three children, Enzo de Andrade Elias, born in November 13, 2007, Aldo de Andrade Elias, born in November, 19th, 2009, and Raul de Andrade Elias, born in June, 14th, 2013.

Education[edit]

His early education occurred at a Catholic school in São Paulo named Colégio Pio XII and Colégio Etapa.

At the age of 15, he succeeded to pass the exams qualifying for the Chemical Institute [1] at The University of São Paulo, but he was unable to formally register for the course due to legal restrictions of age.^{[verification needed]}

He joined the Mechatronics Engineering course at The Polytechnical School of The University of São Paulo [2] in 1989, where he was chosen to participate in special training (PET-1992) Programa Especial de Treinamento for outperforming students. He participated under the supervision of Giorgio Eugenio Oscare Giacaglia (1), former consultant of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). As final project of the course,he has implemented a complex prototype of an electric myofunctional machine to support assisted walking for paraplegics.

He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from University of Pittsburgh, at Pennsylvania.

Professional Life[edit]

Before entering the financial market industry, Marcos was a business analyst at Ernst & Young, and at Monitor Group, where he firstly met Tom Copeland. Thereafter, they developed consultancy services for Latam clients.

After 10 years working as an equity analyst for local and international banks, such as BNP Paribas and Banco Brascan Brascan, in the early 2002 he co-founded GAS Investimentos, thereafter acquired by Vinci Partners today one of the largest independent equity houses in Brazil. Two years later, he left GAS/Vinci to become partner at Link Investimentos.

In 2006, he started his own asset management house, Galleas. His management style calls for concentration and long-period long positions in small and mid-cap companies. He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of Medial Saúde. Later on, Galleas was absorbed by Gradual Investimentos, and renamed as Gradius.

Since 2007 Marcos Elias has been developing a C Sharp based high frequency trading system, along with reputed coders such as Dr. Prandini, Fernando Lima (IME-USP) and Telmo Corrêa (MIT). The 220,000 lines of codes were capitalized in a company named Turing (Asset Management and Technology Development).

In 2009 he has founded Empiricus Research House, thereafter selling his founding stake to remaining partners, as to fully concentrate on algorithmic trading. Recently he acquired a stake at Gradual Investimentos, Brazilian second largest independent brokerage house. He has published a novel entitled JUS SANGUINIS

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