Raffaele Savi, Senior Managing Director, is Global Head of BlackRock Systematic (BSYS). He is also Co-Chief Investment Officer and Co-Head of Systematic Active Equities. He is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee and its Investment Sub Committee.

As head of BSYS, Mr. Savi leads the firm’s quantitative investing teams, including fixed income, equity and factor strategies.

In 2006, Mr. Savi joined Barclay's Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. At BGI, Mr. Savi was global head of portfolio management for active equities and also served as its head of investments for European active equities.

Mr. Savi joined BGI from Capitalia where he held several executive roles in its asset management division between 1998 and 2005. His industry experience includes serving as board member and advisor to several pension funds and investment companies.

He was Adjunct Professor of Quantitative Finance at the University of Rome from 2002 to 2006, and since 2022, he has been a lecturer for the Master of Financial Engineering Program at Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. Savi earned a degree in electronic engineering from the University of Rome in 1997.

Kevin Franklin, Managing Director, is a portfolio manager within BlackRock’s Systematic investment team. He is responsible for BlackRock's Global Equity Strategies.

Mr. Franklin rejoined the firm in 2010, building on five prior years of service with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. He joined BlackRock after a year as head of Automated Trading at Marble Bar Asset Management in London, where he was responsible for MBAM's European systematic equity long-short product. At BGI, his previous roles include head of Portfolio Management for The 32 Capital Fund equity long-short strategy, as well as head of Market Neutral, Europe Active Equities. Prior to joining BGI, Mr. Franklin was a portfolio manager and trader at Horizon Asset Limited.

Mr. Franklin earned a BS degree in applied physics and history from the California Institute of Technology in 2000.

Richard Mathieson, CA, Managing Director, is a portfolio manager for global equity strategies within BlackRock’s Systematic investment team. Mr. Mathieson is a portfolio manager for several funds in the systematic equities team and leads the management of our Global Equity Market Neutral strategy.

Prior to this, he led the Investment Strategy team in EMEA for systematic equities. Mr. Mathieson's service with the firm dates back to 2002, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. Prior to rejoining BGI in 2008, Mr. Mathieson was an equity analyst for a specialist investment company focused on European financial stocks. Previously he was with BGI as a senior portfolio manager, where he was responsible for managing both long only and market neutral strategies.

Mr. Mathieson qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2000 and holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of Glasgow.