Senior Director, Head of Investment Data at Russell Investments
📍 Seattle, Washington, United States
Pradeep Velvadapu serves as the Senior Director and Head of Investment Data at Russell Investments in Seattle. He leads the research, development, and data infrastructure for multi-asset quantitative strategies. He holds an MBA from Western Washington University and has a specialization in Python.
There is no publicly available information regarding Pradeeps personal life, hobbies, or interests outside of his professional work in quantitative finance and investment strategy.
He has co-authored multiple research papers on investment strategies, including innovative approaches to decarbonizing equity portfolios and enhancing equal-weighting index methodologies.
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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Senior Director, Head of Investment Data
Job Level
Senior
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
Personality Overview
How Pradeep shows up
Critic
Information Seeker
ROI Driven
They prefer to analyze logically and value objective facts over emotions. They don’t appreciate bells and whistles unless backed by data. They are quite likely to negotiate on pricing or other key terms.
Priorities
Topics Pradeep cares about
Quantitative Investing
Oversees the research and development of multi-asset quantitative strategies and has created systematic, rules-based strategies that have attracted significant assets under management.
Investment Data & Infrastructure
His current role focuses on managing the data and technical infrastructure required to support a large-scale, quantitative investment research team.
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Career
Work history
3-2025
Senior Director, Head of Investment Data
Russell Investments
5-2021 - 2-2025
Director, Quantitative Investing and Infrastructure
Russell Investments
3-2019 - 5-2021
Associate Director
Russell Investments
10-2013 - 5-2021
Senior Quantitative Research Analyst
Russell Investments
4-2010 - 9-2013
Sr. Research Analyst
Russell Investments
In the press
Media appearances
Pradeep Velvadapu - Russell Investments. Featured in Russell Investments
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