Our Story

Mr. Parker is the President of EMQQ Global. Previously, Mr. Parker worked at Progress Investment Management Co., the San Francisco based firm focused on minority and womenowned emerging managers. He previously worked at AlphaShares, an investment firm founded by Mr. Carter and Dr. Malkiel, offering Emerging Markets and China focused ETFs in partnership with Guggenheim Investments. Mr. Parker holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ms. Benson is the Director of Business Development at EMQQ Global. Previously, Kira led business development at MARS SalesFocus Solutions, a provider of distribution intelligence for the asset management industry. Kira spent 7 years in London working in relationship management at both BlueBay Asset Management and BlackRock. Preceding her move to London Kira worked in securities lending at BlackRock’s San Francisco office. Kira began her career at Morgan Stanley’s Graystone Consulting after graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Erica Allaby is the Chief Marketing Officer at EMQQ Global. Over the the last decade, Erica developed the art of investor-centric storytelling with a focus on disruptive technology and the companies on the forefront of innovation while overseeing ROBO Global’s content & product marketing until its successful acquisition by VettaFi in 2023. Erica graduated from High Point University as a Presidential Scholar with a B.A. in Communications.

Mr. Bailey is the Director of Research for EMQQ Global. Previously, Akeem worked at Rondure Global Advisors, where he helped oversee research and due diligence on emerging market equities and at Arisaig Partners, a Singaporebased hedge fund focused exclusively on consumer and internet companies in emerging markets. Akeem began his career living and working in India as a strategy consultant for the Mahindra Group. Akeem holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Burton G. Malkiel has served as an advisor to the EMQQ Global Index Committee since inception. Dr. Malkiel is a longtime Professor of Economics at Princeton University and is best known for his seminal book A Random Walk Down Wall Street. In 1999 he served as an advisor to eInvesting, a fractional share brokerage acquired by ETRADE in 2000. In 2002 he was a co-Founder and CIO of Active Index Advisors. He is widely considered one of the pioneers of index investing and ETFs. He has served on the Board of Directors of Vanguard, as Dean of the Yale School of Management and as Chairman of the Princeton University Economics Department. Dr. Malkiel holds BA and MBA from Harvard and a PhD from Princeton University.

Dr. Zhang is an Advisor to the EMQQ Global Index Committee. She is the CEO of New York based Purview Investments, a firm specializing in active ETF managed solutions and ETF innovation. Her career spans from quantitative analysis at Baring Asset Management, multi-asset portfolio management at Blackrock and MFS, to leading the investment team at Windhaven. She is a recipient of Top Women in Asset Management 2015 by Money Management Executive and a co-founder of Women in ETFs. She holds a B.A. from University of Regina, Canada, M.S. and Ph.D. in Finance from University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Mr. Venuto is an Advisor to the EMQQ Global Index Committee. He is an ETF industry veteran with two decades of experience in the design and implementation of ETF-based investment strategies. Michael is currently Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Toroso Investments, LLC. Michael is also a Director of Tidal ETF Services, which helps investors launch and grow ETFs. Previously, he was Head of Investments at Global X Funds. Before that, he was Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manger at Horizon Kinetics.

Mr. Kang is an Advisor to the EMQQ Global Index Committee. He has the experience of over 25 NYSE listed ETF launches and was previously the Chief Investment Officer of EGShares and Portfolio Manager of the Columbia Emerging Markets Consumer ETF (NYSE: ECON). Over his 20 years of buy-side experience, Richard has had senior roles at a hedge fund, fund-of-hedge fund, investment counseling firm, index provider and ETF issuer/managers. He sits on FTSE’s Country Classification Indexing Committee as well as the editorial board of Institutional Investors’ The Journal of Index Investing, the only academic journal for the indexing and ETF industry.