Primary Job Title Head of Research Primary Organization 
Axioma
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
Bill Morokoff will oversee a global team of experts, and is tasked with continued expansion of the firm’s multi-asset class and equity investment research leadership. He was previously Managing Director, Head of Quantitative Analytics at Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (“S&P”) since 2006, where he led the firm’s Global Quantitative
Analytics and Research Group.
Before S&P, Morokoff was with Moody’s KMV since 2000, most recently serving as Senior Director, Acting Head of Research. Prior to that he was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in the Firm-Wide Risk Department working on market risk in the Quantitative Modeling Group.
Morokoff holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Courant Institute at New York University, where he specialized in Monte Carlo methods and numerical analysis. As a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, he conducted research at UCLA, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the University of Arizona. He also pursued postdoctoral studies at Siemen’s AG and the University of Minnesota.
