Judith Gu

Managing Director
Head of Quantitative Strategies

Scotiabank

Judith Gu, MS, MBA, CPA is a Managing Director and Head of Statistical and Systematic trading at Scotiabank US Equities business. She is responsible for alpha signals, risk management, and electronic market making for the growing US equities trading business at the Canadian bank. Prior to joining Scotiabank, Judith was a “strat” at Goldman Sachs. She worked at fundamental strategy group, equities market making desk as well as GSAM Quantitative Investment Solution ( “QIS” ) group. Judith earned her MS in Data Mining from University of Central Connecticut and her MBA in finance from New York University.

In addition, Judith has amazingly passed all 4 Certified Public Accounting exams!