David Marra

Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer

David is the Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Markin Asset Management where he oversees the firm’s investment and research activities. David has been an invited speaker on quantitative asset management at numerous family offices, hedge funds, conferences, and organizations including ALTSLA, NAPFA, and the Financial Planning Association (FPA). He has been quoted in or appeared on: Bloomberg TV, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, TheStreet.com and Japan’s Nikkei Shimbun, to name a few. David previously founded a quantitative research firm serving institutional asset managers and funds. His three decades of experience include advising C-level executives at some of the world’s leading asset management and pharmaceutical firms as a Principal with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). At BCG he led the development of a quantitative-fundamental method to evaluate stage-2 and stage-3 therapies across the biotech pipeline. Earlier in his career he was Founder & CEO of a search engine technology firm overseeing over 70 researchers and technologists. David received an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business where he was a Fellowship recipient.