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Nigol Koulajian is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Quest. Mr. Koulajian founded Quest in March 2001 to pursue his passion for quantitative investment research and strategy development, which he has focused on from the beginning of his career in the early 1990's. After lengthy research, Mr. Koulajian identified specific strategies using proprietary techniques that have been continuously enhanced over the past twenty-four years and became the basis for the growth of Quest. The firm, based in New York, manages $2.3 billion in assets and employs forty-three people as of August 2024.
In 2002, Mr. Koulajian started the NOK Foundation, which is committed to promoting the study and practice of yoga and meditation globally. Mr. Koulajian has acted as a board member of the Omega Institute and David Lynch Foundation. Mr. Koulajian earned an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School and a BS in electrical engineering from Notre Dame.
Robert Toth is Head of Trading at Quest. From 2010 until 2014, Mr. Toth was Head of Trading for Vegasoul Capital Management, a high frequency, systematic hedge fund. He was responsible for global trading, technology and quantitative research with a specific focus on transaction cost analysis and portfolio optimization. Prior to joining Vegasoul, Mr. Toth worked at Quest beginning in 2005. His responsibilities included quantitative development and trading. Mr. Toth holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and an MBA from Columbia Business School (Honors with Distinction).
Paul Czkwianianc is a Partner and advisor to Quest. Mr. Czkwianianc has collaborated with Quest’s Founder and CIO, Nigol Koulajian, for over two decades in conceptualizing, designing and implementing Quest’s unique Alpha-generating strategies. As a founding principal of Quest in 2001, Mr. Czkwianianc has driven the development of the firm’s investment platform and innovation of new models and strategies. Mr. Czkwianianc started his career in 1999 as a Research Analyst at Enterprise Asset Management, a Firm co-founded by Mr. Koulajian. Mr. Czkwianianc holds a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University and an M.S. degree in Mathematics from New York University. At NYU, he was enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Mathematics, where he worked on mathematical modeling in neuroscience.