Julia Bonafede

Co-Founder, Rosetta Analytics

Julia has spent the past six years with the Rosetta Analytics’ AI team focused on managing investment strategies developed on the firm’s advanced AI investment platform. Rosetta Analytics uses leading-edge proprietary deep reinforcement learning models to manage investment strategies with an objective to provide institutional and other qualified investors with a high quality systematic investment strategy. Rosetta’s investment strategies have won numerous industry awards, including its most recent for “Best Machine Learning Fund – 2021.” Rosetta is currently nominated for Institutional Investor’s Most Innovative Hedge Fund of the Year award.

Prior to co-founding Rosetta Analytics, Julia spent 24 years serving clients and building teams and offices at Wilshire Associates. She served as President of Wilshire Consulting, advisor to $1 trillion in AUA, and was a member of Wilshire’s Board of Directors. She has served as strategic consultant to large state and corporate pension funds, and endowment and foundation clients. She was recognized in May 2021 as one of four women named by The Hedge Fund Journal in its “Tomorrow's Titans 2021 List of 50 Managers” and also listed as a top Knowledge Broker in Chief Investment Officer magazine’s annual list of the world’s most influential investment consultants in 2015.

She currently co-Chairs the Standards of Practice Council for the CFA Institute. She is also a member of the Financial Data Professional Institute Advisory Board