Marc Maelk

Founder & Chief Investment Officer

Conquest Capital Partners

Marc Malek was born in Lebanon in 1969 and traveled to the US for his university education in 1987 after attending the French Lycee in Beirut. Marc graduated at the top of his class at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1992 with the Highest Honors. While at Caltech, Marc studied how Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks can be applied to Decision Support Systems to make decisions under uncertainty.

In his junior year at Caltech, Marc received a grant from the Pentagon through NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to determine the optimal placement of tanks in a battlefield to maximize the chance of winning, using some of the new mathematical techniques he was developing. That research was published at the University and had applications in trading various securities that prompted his recruitment by the Wall Street powerhouse, Solomon Brothers in 1992.

Marc spent the early part of his career on Wall Street, London and Tokyo creating and running very successful businesses for global banking institutions. Prior to starting his own firm in 1999, he held the post of Global Head of Exotic Derivatives at UBS in addition to heading the proprietary trading groups for UBS in Europe and the Americas.

Since the creation of his hedge fund in 1999, Marc has been very successful earning many awards and commendations from his peers. His research was widely lauded and changed the way investors view Hedge Funds.