Gareth Shepherd

Co-Head, Voya Machine Intelligence and Portfolio Manager Voya Investment Management

Gareth is co-head of Voya machine intelligence (VMI) and a portfolio manager at Voya Investment Management. Previously he was a managing partner and co-founder of predecessor firm G Squared Capital LLP, a pioneer in applying machine learning and data science to find persistent patterns in company and ESG data. Gareth is an engineer by training and before entering finance he developed knowledge acquisition software to tackle classification problems in epidemiology, earning his PhD at UNSW, Sydney. He was awarded a United Nations Assoc. triple-bottom line award and completed a World Economic Forum sponsored Executive Masters (INSEAD, London Business School, and Columbia University). He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation