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.

Travis Cooke, CFA, Managing Director, is Head of North American strategies within BlackRock’s Systematic investment team. In his current role, Mr. Cooke is responsible for US and Canadian long-only and long-short strategies for retail and institutional clients. Mr. Cooke's service with the firm dates back to 1999, including his years with Barclays Global Investors, where he managed US strategies within the Alpha Strategies Group.

Mr. Cooke holds undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an MSc in finance from London Business School, and has been a CFA charter holder since 2001.

Richard Mathieson, CFA, 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.