Director — Quantitative Research & Analytics

Paul Kauders

I build investment data platforms and lead the teams behind them. Eighteen years across Northwestern Mutual, SWIB, and T. Rowe Price — shipping analytics infrastructure, ML decision-support, and data governance for multi-billion-dollar portfolios.

CFA CharterholderMS Computational FinanceBBA Finance, UW-Madison18 years in investment analytics

Director, Quantitative Research & Analytics

Northwestern Mutual

2021 -- present

Built the $130B analytics platform, hired the team, sit on AI committees

Risk & Analytics IT Development Manager

State of Wisconsin Investment Board

2012 -- 2021

Modernized $100B+ fund risk model, pioneered quant strategies, $50M automation win

Associate Analyst, Equity Research

T. Rowe Price

2007 -- 2010

Technology sector equity research, firm-wide tooling