Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Numeus Group
Nobel is the Chairman and CEO of the Numeus Group, a global investment firm focused on Digital Assets. Over the past three decades, Nobel has proven to be an entrepreneurial executive with a demonstrated history of building and managing investment and trading businesses, leveraging the power of data science and technology. He spent twelve years at Two Sigma where he led the growth of the company across various dimensions, including the expansion into new geographies, asset classes, as well as adjacent businesses such as market making and insurance. Most significantly, Gulati was responsible for scaling the investment management business, as CEO of Two Sigma Advisers, LP, which encompasses Two Sigma’s asset management division that provides solutions for institutional investors. Under his leadership the company’s assets grew from $3.7B in 2007 to $60B in 2019.
Prior to Two Sigma, Nobel worked at Citigroup as managing director in the global equities division and as head of ADR research and strategy in the global research division. He helped build Citigroup’s program, electronic and algorithmic trading businesses and was responsible for strategy and business development across global equities. Previously, he worked in equity research at ABN Amro and NatWest Markets. Nobel began his career with Raymond James, where he established the firm’s first Asian office. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, as a Joseph Wharton Scholar, with a bachelor’s degree in international finance.
Nobel is a non-executive director on the board of Pictet Asset Management. Nobel is a guest lecturer at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and also serves on the Executive Board of the Undergraduate Wharton School, as well as the Executive Board of Analytics@Wharton, a leading academic research center focusing on the development and application of data science and analytics methods across industries.