Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Bryan Novak joined Astor in 2002 and currently serves as CEO. Mr. Novak has been involved in the research and development of the trading and investment strategies at the firm. He was instrumental in the launch of the firm’s mutual fund family in 2009 and has served as part of the portfolio management team since 2004. Prior to Astor, Mr. Novak was an equity options trader for Second City Trading, LLC at the CBOE in Chicago. Mr. Novak appears regularly in numerous financial media outlets and is often a panelist at ETF industry events. Bryan earned his B.S. in Financial Management from the Ohio State University. Mr. Novak is a CAIA charterholder.