Hitesh is a member of Allegiant’s Leadership Team and directs Allegiant’s Structured Equity team which focuses on Small Cap Core, Small Cap Growth and 130/30 strategies. He also manages the firm's equity trading desk. He previously served as Director of Quantitative Research at Harris Investment Management and has over 20 years of quantitative research and portfolio management experience. Hitesh received his B.S. in Pharmacy from University of Gujarat, M.S. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Bombay University and his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from University of Illinois at Chicago.

Rita is an Analyst on the Structured Equity team with responsibility for the firm’s equity index styles. In addition, she also provides performance attribution and fundamental characteristics for all the firm’s equity styles. Before joining the Structured Equity team, she served on Allegiant’s RFP team and performance measurement unit. Previously, she held positions in account administration and mutual fund operations with the predecessor firm. Rita holds a B.S.B.A. from the University of Akron.

Chen is a Senior Analyst on the Structured Equity team in Chicago. Prior to joining Allegiant, Chen was a Research Assistant with the Department of Information and Decision Sciences of the University of Illinois at Chicago. At Chicago, her work included microstructure market model estimation utilizing Sequential Monte Carlo method and index portfolio construction with statistically smoothed capitalization weights. Chen holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Nanjing University, an M.S. in Econometrics from Fudan University, and a Ph.D. in Business Statistics from the University of Illinois in Chicago.