Basil Qunibi

Basil is the Founder, Chief Investment Officer, and Chief Executive Officer of Atom Investors, a global, multi-manager, market-neutral hedge fund. Previously, he founded Novus in 2007 and served as the company’s Chairman and CEO, where he built the company into a firm with over 100 employees and hundreds of clients, managing more than $3.5 trillion in AUM. Basil has spent his entire career investing, both as an investment manager and investor. He started at Merrill Lynch, where he was responsible for over $4 billion in allocated capital across the chemical, energy, metals & mining, and tobacco industries. In 2004, Basil joined Ivy Asset Management to help build out Ivy’s credit focus and, after two years, joined the long/short equity team, responsible for over $6 billion in capital. Basil graduated from the University of Virginia (UVA) with a degree in Economics. While at UVA, he founded Callscribe, the first company to transcribe quarterly earnings calls, and was part of the McIntire Investment Institute, a student-run long/short fund.