Garrett Paolella
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
Garrett Paolella
Garrett Paolella is an experienced financial services executive with an established track record of launching and managing asset management companies. He is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at NEOS Investments, as well as portfolio manager to all NEOS ETFs. Throughout his career Mr. Paolella has been a pioneer in the options-based ETF space, creating and launching numerous ETFs that have amassed great success. Prior to NEOS Investments, he held C-level roles at Harvest Volatility Management, Horizons ETFs Management, and Recon Capital – a firm which he started and later sold to Mirae Asset Global Investments. Prior to those roles, Garrett was an Executive Director at MKM Partners, a Research, Sales and Trading Firm based in Stamford, CT. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, Magna Cum Laude, from the Gabelli School of Business at Roger Williams University.
Troy Cates
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
Troy Cates
Troy Cates has over 23 years of trading and portfolio management experience, with a vast knowledge of both the equity and options markets. He is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of NEOS Investments. Troy has been a pioneer in the options-based ETF space having helped create, launch, and manage numerous successful ETFs throughout his career. He served as a Managing Director at Harvest Volatility Management, where he helped manage and trade the firm’s institutional portfolios and ETFs, along with guiding the development of the firm’s exchange-traded products. Before Harvest, Troy served as Managing Director, Head of Trading, and Portfolio Manager at Horizons ETF Management U.S. and has enjoyed roles as Partner and Head of Trading at Recon Capital, where he oversaw portfolio management and trading for all of the firm’s investment funds. Previously, he was an Executive Director at MKM Partners, where he was an institutional execution trader and helped launch the firm’s equity derivatives desk. Troy started his career working as a market maker at Spencer Trask, an NYC-based venture capital firm. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from SUNY Albany.
Robert Shea
Chief Operating Officer
Robert Shea
Robert Shea is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of NEOS Investments LLC. Prior to NEOS, Mr. Shea spent nearly 12 years with Mirae Asset Global Investments (USA) LLC where he held several positions including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Finance and Operations. During his time with Mirae Asset Mr. Shea served as Chief Financial Officer of Horizons ETF Management (Canada) Inc for approximately two and a half years. Prior Mr. Shea was the Chief Financial Officer of Gradient Partners LP, Controller of P. Schoenfeld Asset Management and Controller of Josephthal and Company. He started his career in public accounting. Mr. Shea holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the State University of New York at Geneseo.
Curtis Flippen
Chief Compliance Officer
Curtis Flippen
Curtis Flippen serves as the Chief Compliance Officer at NEOS Investments. Curtis is an experienced compliance professional that provides advice and guidance in all aspects of fiduciary and regulatory issues to investment advisers managing private and/or public funds (e.g., ETFs, mutual funds, SMAs, public pension funds). This includes serving as CCO, drafting, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of firm’s compliance policies, procedures and code of ethics, annual review of the firm’s compliance program, and compliance training (annual and targeted). Mr. Flippen has more than 20 years of experience in investment and securities legal and regulatory matters. Prior to joining NEOS Investments, he held various compliance and legal roles including 5th Level Capital, NovaBlock, QMA/Prudential, Metlife Advisors, Bear Stearns Asset Management, Deloitte, and E&Y. Mr. Flippen holds a JD from Rutgers Law School.
Zachary Csillag
Managing Director, Head of Marketing
Zachary Csillag
Currently Mr. Csillag is a Managing Director and Head of Marketing at NEOS Investments where he is responsible for the firm’s marketing efforts using both digital and traditional media channels, as well as handling the firm’s data analytics and CRM operations.Previously he was an Executive Director at Harvest Volatility Management where he focused on marketing the firms exchange-traded products as well as offered support to all cross functional teams at Harvest. Prior to Harvest Volatility Managememt, he was Associate on the marketing team at Global X ETFs where he focused on the seamless integration of Horizons ETFs (US) into the Global X brand, following the 2018 merger. During that time period Mr. Csillag lead the transition of all Horizons ETFs marketing activities, helping increase AUM by 50% during the changeover period. Prior to Horizons ETFs (US) merging with Global X, he served as Marketing Associate at Horizons ETFs (US), where he created their digital marketing infrastructure across owned, paid, and earned media, helping to grow their flagship fund by almost 300% in one year. He holds a certificate in Digital Marketing from Cornell University, as well as certificates in both Google AdWords and Google Analytics. Mr. Csillag has his Series 7 license and completed his undergraduate studies at Elon university where he earned a bachelor’s of science degree.
Keith Fletcher
Managing Director, Strategy & Development
Keith Fletcher
Keith Fletcher is an experienced Financial Services marketing and product management professional who serves as Managing Director of Strategy & Development at NEOS Investments. Keith has also held roles as Managing Director of Corporate Strategy at Harvest Volatility Management while also founding his own consulting firm (JAHFT Solutions). Prior to serving in these roles at Harvest and JAHFT, Keith was the Chief Distribution Officer at Riskx Investments where he was responsible for all aspects of the firm’s marketing, sales, and product management efforts. Before Riskx, Keith spent four years as Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Product Management for Security Global Investments/Rydex Investments (later Guggenheim Investments) where he was responsible for their Exchange Traded Funds, Mutual Funds and other related products. Prior to that he was Managing Director responsible for marketing funds of hedge funds at Lyster Watson and Company. Keith spent twelve years as Executive Vice President/Chief Marketing Officer for Van Eck Global, where he helped the firm grow from a small boutique into a major manager of portfolios of commodity- and emerging market-related securities. Keith attended St. Peters University.