Scott Evan Ladner

Mr. Scott E.
Ladner is a Chief Investment Officer at Horizon Investments LLC.
He is the Chair of the Investment Committee for Horizon.
In these capacities, he oversees all aspects of the Investment Management division for the firm.
He also provides the Investment Management division with Macro analysis and interpretation of global derivatives, credit, foreign exchange, equity, and funding markets.
His previous roles at Horizon included Head of Risk and Director of Quantitative & Alternative Strategies.
Prior to Horizon, Mr. Ladner was a founder of Charlotte Global Advisors and Principal Guard, LLC.
He helped to launch an equity index volatility and dispersion trading unit at PE?K6 Investments in Chicago, a proprietary listed option and volatility trading firm.
Previously at First Union/Wachovia, he founded and ran the equity swap and forwards portfolio while also managing equity option and volatility portfolios.
He also co-founded and managed the Risk Arbitrage and Special Situations portfolio.
He then managed the swaption and cap/floor portion of the bank’s interest rate derivatives portfolio.
Mr. Ladner received his BA in Economics and Russian Language & Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.