Dallas-based private investment firm Arctos announced three key hires to expand its Arctos Insights team.
Arctos said Barry E. Griffiths, Ph.D., CFA, joins as senior advisor, alongside the addition of Om Kanwar as senior data scientist and Deep Patel as software engineer.
“We are thrilled to welcome Barry to the team,” Ian Charles, co-founder and co-managing partner of Arctos, said in a statement. “His contributions to, and intellectual innovations within, private markets are well known, and his expertise will enhance our ability to deliver differentiated research and risk analysis for our partners and clients. But just as important, Barry is a great friend, teacher and mentor who will benefit everyone here for years to come.”
Arctos provides bespoke growth capital and liquidity solutions, differentiated thought partnership and value creation services to sports franchises (Arctos Sports) and alternative asset managers (Arctos Keystone).
Griffiths brings over 25 years of leadership in the innovation and application of quantitative analysis within private markets. He has pioneered methodologies that link private equity performance with public markets, including the development of the widely recognized “Direct Alpha Method” for benchmarking private equity, Arctos said.
Griffiths’ experience includes roles at Ares Management, Landmark Partners, and Goldman Sachs, coupled with an active involvement in the Private Equity Research Consortium (PERC). In this new role, Griffiths will support Arctos’ research, data science, and risk management initiatives across Arctos Insights.
Arctos said it has expanded its data science and technology capabilities with the hiring of Kanwar and Patel.
Before Arctos, Kanwar was a part of the financial services technology team at Palantir Technologies, leading projects between Palantir and its financial services clients. Patel also joins Arctos from Palantir where he was an engineering lead developing solutions for mission-critical operations across the government sector. Before Palantir, Patel was a software engineer at The Blackstone Group.
“Om and Deep’s experience applying machine learning across complex organizations will help augment our existing capabilities,” Zach Baran, director at Arctos, said in a statement. “Adding additional resources to Arctos Insights further underscores the firm’s commitment to data-informed research and innovative technologies, both of which are integral to our investment strategy and value creation processes.”
Founded in 2019, Arctos said it is a catalyst for innovation and business transformation for its portfolio companies and its markets.
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