Professor Mila Getmansky Sherman is Professor of Finance at the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst. She specializes in empirical asset pricing, hedge funds, performance of investment trading strategies, financial institutions, systemic risk, and system dynamics. She received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and Minor in Economics from MIT and a Ph.D. degree in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She was also a post-doctoral fellow at the MIT Lab for Financial Engineering. Professor Getmansky Sherman is an active faculty member of the Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets (CISDM) at UMass Amherst. Her work has been published in several journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Financial Analysts Journal, and the Journal of Investment Management. She has participated in numerous conference organizing committees including the American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, Financial Management Association, and the European Financial Association. Professor Getmansky Sherman is an associate editor of the Journal of Alternative Investments. She is a recipient of numerous awards and grants from the Q-Group, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inquire-Europe, and National Science Foundation, and a recipient of the College Outstanding Research Award. Professor Getmansky Sherman worked in the quantitative research group at the Deutsche Asset Management in New York. She teaches courses in corporate finance, financial modeling, and alternative investments in MBA and undergraduate programs. She has had numerous government appointments and affiliations being a Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She was a contractor at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and an Interdepartmental Government Fellow at FRB, SEC, CFC, IMF, OFR, and OCC.