R. Scott Morris
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| Born | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Residence | Chicago, Illinois |
| Alma mater | B.A. University of Chicago; M.B.A. University of Chicago |
| Occupation | Financial Services |
| Website |
PolishedU.com RScottMorrisConsulting.com |
R. Scott Morris is an American author, financial engineer and quantitative consultant. He is president of Morris Consulting, LLC, and served as CEO of the Boston Options Exchange from 2006-08. He has also served as Managing Director of Goldman Sachs and Partner at Hull Trading Company.
Morris was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and attended Pike High School. After completing a degree in Economics at the University of Chicago in 1986, he entered a rapidly changing futures industry as the NYSE and NASDAQ began trading equity options contracts. As an associate for GNP commodities, Morris developed strategies for risk hedging and management and began his lifelong research into algorithmic trading.
After joining a team of mathematicians and scientists working under Blair Hull at Hull Trading Company, he obtained an M.B.A from the University of Chicago, where he specialized in both finance and statistics. During his tenure with Hull Trading, Morris engineered electronic option pricing systems and developed option pricing and volatility models, eventually becoming a Partner and the Director of Financial Engineering.
After becoming one of the world's premier market-making firms, Hull Trading Company was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 1999 for $531 million. Morris joined Goldman Sachs, where he managed the equity trading financial engineering groups and continued his work on trading systems and statistical modeling. After two years, he became a Managing Director and led the firm's algorithmic trading division at the Automated Execution Strategies desk.
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