Leadership

The Quarry’s leadership brings over 40 years of experience building and scaling multi-strategy investment firms. This experience informs our vision, as well as our approach to risk management, portfolio construction and creating strong alignment with exceptional investment talent.

Peter Bremberg
Founder & Chief Investment Officer

Peter Bremberg

Founder & Chief Investment Officer

Peter Bremberg is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of The Quarry. In his role as CIO, Peter is responsible for portfolio construction and capital allocations to The Quarry’s portfolio managers. Peter was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Boothbay Fund Management LLC, a global multi-manager hedge fund with over $5 billion of capital allocations to 100+ portfolio managers.

Prior to Boothbay, he was a Director in the Global Prime Solutions & Financing division of BNP Paribas from 2010-2016. Before BNP, he was the 8th employee and Treasury Manager at Northern Arc Capital in India, a structured credit and specialty finance company that has enabled financing for over 50 million underserved households and businesses in India. Peter began his career at Bear, Stearns & Co. in the Equities Division.

Peter has an M.B.A. in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Ian Tousignant

Principal & Head of Quantitative Strategies

Ian Tousignant is the Head of Quantitative Strategies at The Quarry.

Prior to The Quarry, he was the CIO and Co-Founder of Outremont Technologies, a market-neutral crypto-focused hedge fund. Prior to co-founding Outremont, he was a Portfolio Manager at Millennium Partners LP, from 2018 to 2020, and Hutchin Hill Capital, LP, from 2010 to 2018, focused on cross-asset volatility. Before that, he spent four years as a Quantitative Analyst & Proprietary Trader at Octavian Advisors LP and Lehman Brothers Inc. Ian began his career as an Analyst at Caxton Associates LLC and Barclays Global Investors.

Ian earned a B.S. in Actuarial Science with a Minor in Business Studies as well as a Minor in Finance from Concordia University and an M.S. in Financial Mathematics from Stanford University.

Tanvir Kirpalani

Principal, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

Tanvir Kirpalani is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer at The Quarry. In addition to his role as CFO/CCO, Tanvir is responsible for trade operations, treasury, and has oversight of HR, Legal, IT and Facilities.

Prior to joining The Quarry, he spent almost six years at Taconic Capital Advisors as Finance Director. He was COO/CCO at Kora Management, which he helped launch in 2013. Before that, he spent eight years at Taconic Capital Advisors in various functions such as operations, treasury / portfolio finance and as Operations Manager, Hong Kong. Tanvir was also an Operations Analyst at Sagamore Hill Capital Management and started his career at Goldman Sachs as a Settlements Analyst.

Tanvir is originally from India and has a B.S. in Computer Science, with Honors from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Rob Margolis

Principal & Head of Business Development

Rob Margolis is the Head of Business Development at The Quarry. In his role, Rob is responsible for sourcing manager investments and the firm’s investor relations function.

Prior to joining The Quarry, he was a Senior Director and led an institutional sales team at BlockFi. He previously headed institutional sales at LedgerX, which was the first CFTC-approved exchange and clearinghouse for physically delivered options on bitcoin. Rob began his career at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Management Division, primarily focused on equity derivative sales and fixed income portfolio management.

Rob graduated from Villanova University with a B.S. in Finance and Real Estate.

Tanvir Kirpalani
Principal, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

Ian Tousignant
Principal & Head of Quantitative Strategies

Rob Margolis
Principal & Head of Business Development