Sumali Sanyal is Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Systematic Global Equities Platform. She is the Lead Portfolio Manager for Xponance’s systematic active and passive equity products. She also co-leads the firm’s Quantitative Working Group, which is a collaborative forum for quantitative research at the firm. She is a co-founder of Piedmont Investment Advisors, an investment firm acquired by FIS Group, the predecessor company to Xponance. At Piedmont, Sumali led the Quantitative Equity team and launched both active and passive products at the firm. She served as the Chief Operating Officer of Piedmont for several years and at the time of its acquisition by FIS Group sh