Wayne Himelsein

A founding partner of Logica Capital Advisers, Wayne Himelsein serves as the firm's President and Chief Investment Officer. Launched in 2012, the company is a registered investment adviser that is owned and operated by investment professionals who have worked together since 2007 and who manage the business on a full time basis. The firm advises a multi-strategy portfolio allocated across a carefully selected group of equity and options strategies which take a quantitative and/or systematic approach to extracting alpha out of the capital markets. Himelsein's innovative methods examine multiple parameters and make dynamic shifts according to market cycles or economic environments, thus taking advantage of inherent inefficiencies.

Acting as Chief Investment Officer, Wayne Himelsein leads the firm's research and development efforts, engaging investors internationally through interest in his agile investment strategies and inventive approach to hedge funds. Extensively experienced in fund management, Himelsein honed his skills in analysis and trading as a founding partner of HM Fund Management, which he launched in 1999. Due to its dedication to taking advantage of inefficiencies in actuarial pricing, the firm had AUM over $300 million at its peak.

An experienced investment professional with a strong quantitative background in trading, Wayne Himelsein has served as a Managing Partner of Omni Capital Management and the General Partner of Omni Group Fund. This limited partnership utilized his analytical models and algorithmic trading system to invest in securities. A well organized and critical thinker, Himelsein originated technical quantitative models that were utilized for equity selection and evaluation, while further developing skills in management, research, and analysis. Previously, Himelsein acted as an equity trader at the Carlin Group, where he created several proprietary trading strategies and risk-management tools.

Wayne Himelsein received a Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Berkley. He currently resides with his family in Los Angeles and continues to evolve his quantitative trading systems.