There’s a Better Way to Invest

Investment Advisor Thomas Wynn. CEO

In 2003 Thomas founded Wynn Capital Management with a vision of offering the advanced trading strategies normally reserved for institutions and hedge funds to individual investors—at a fraction of the cost.

Thomas worked on the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco from 1981 to 1996. Starting as a “runner” Thomas eventually became an equity and options market maker in 1985.

On July 1, 1987 with starting capital of $25,000 Thomas formed his own trading company, Wynn Options. Four months later on Oct 19th Thomas was on the floor of the exchange trading for his own account during “Black Monday” the –23% single day decline that shook global markets. Thomas survived an event that wiped out many professional traders and went on to have a successful nine year career as a floor trader. Thomas bought a seat on the exchange in 1989 and trained and financed other traders.

Thomas is active in the Santa Cruz community and is currently:

Jason Draut Jason Draut, Ph.D., Senior Portfolio Manager

Jason has worked in the financial services industry for over 10 years. After graduating with a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard in 2004 he decided to combine his extensive analytical skills and passion for financial markets to pursue a career in finance.

Prior to joining WCM in 2014, Jason was employed at BlackRock in San Francisco as a portfolio manager for fixed income and multi–asset model portfolios. From 2007 until 2012 he worked as a risk manager in BlackRock’s Risk and Quantitative Analysis group, covering several global macro and fixed income hedge funds. He began his career in finance as a Derivatives Specialist at MSCI Barra in Berkeley, CA.

After working many years for a large asset manager, Jason wanted to be more involved in the whole investment process with a specific interest in helping individuals understand their financial situation and meet their financial goals. Along with working with individual clients, Jason incorporates all the skills he has gained to develop and manage the WCM model portfolios using both strategic and tactical asset allocation to enhance outcomes.

Jason graduated from Tufts University with high honors earning a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and a B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Physics.

John Conti, COO

John joined WCM in August 2015. John will assume the role of Chief Operations Officer.

Prior to joining Wynn Capital Management, Mr. Conti spent 13 years as an Executive Director at MSCI, Inc. and was responsible for running the Americas’ business for the MSCI’s FEA brand, which specialized in the valuation of physical assets as “Real Options” and Multi–Asset Class Enterprise Risk Management solutions for some of the world’s largest commodity and energy firms.

Prior to his time with MSCI, Mr. Conti spent 13 years in the trading pits at the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco as a successful independent Equity Options Market Maker. During his time in the pits, Mr. Conti focused on constructing profitable, multi–million dollar portfolios of derivatives and equities and managing the risk of those portfolios via volatility arbitrage and risk budgeting.

Mr. Conti earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

Jacob Mandel, Client Relations

Jacob joined WCM in May of 2015. He currently provides operational and administrative support to the firm.

Jacob earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Chris Sheehy, Investment Advisor

Chris joined WCM in September 2015. In addition to his role as advisor he supports compliance and business development for the firm. Prior to WCM, Chris worked at High Tech Ventures, an early stage venture–capital startup incubator. Previous to HTV Chris was an options broker on the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco.