Primary Job Title Founder, CEO & CIO Primary Organization Atom
Location Greater New York Area, United States, North America Regions East Coast Gender Male
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Basil founded Novus in 2007 and serves as the company’s Chairman and CEO. Basil has spent his entire career investing both as an investment manager and as an investor. He started his career at Merrill Lynch where he was responsible for over $4 billion in allocated capital across the Chemicals, 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 was disappointed with the industry’s over-reliance on historical return analysis and manager conversations as a foundation for research and decided to start Novus in 2007. Basil graduated from the University of Virginia 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.
