Troy Cates

Troy Cates has over 25 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 at NEOS Investments as well as a portfolio manager of the firm’s ETFs. Mr. Cates 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. Prior to Harvest, he 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. Mr. Cates started his career working as a market maker at Spencer Trask, a NYC-based venture capital firm. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from SUNY Albany.