Passive Growth Has Redefined Who Moves the Market
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Leadership
Michael Green
Chief Executive Officer
& Chief Investment Officer
Michael Green has studied financial markets and market structure for over thirty years.
Investment career
Most recently, Green served as Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager at Simplify Asset Management, where he designed and managed multiple ETF products. Previously, he served as one of two portfolio managers at Thiel Macro and founded Ice Farm Capital, a discretionary global macro hedge fund seeded by Soros Fund Management.
From 2006 to 2014, Green founded and led the New York office of Canyon Capital Advisors, a multi-strategy hedge fund. He established the firm’s global macro strategies and managed exposure across equity, credit, foreign-exchange, and commodity markets. Earlier in his career, he managed mutual funds at Royce & Associates, ran small-cap value strategies at Moody Aldrich Partners, co-founded ValuAdd Software Solutions, and worked in M&A advisory at Bain & Company and The Parthenon Group.
Research and public service
Over the past decade, Green has developed a public research program examining the structural consequences of the shift from active to passive investment management. His research has been presented to central banks and international financial institutions and has been the subject of independent profiles, including Institutional Investor’s January 2025 feature, “Why Michael Green Is Known as the Cassandra of Passive Investing.” He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a CFA charterholder.
Craig Peterson
Head of Quantitative Research
Craig Peterson leads quantitative research at Tier1 Alpha Asset Management and serves as CEO of Tier1 Alpha Research, LLC. He brings more than 15 years of experience across quantitative finance, market structure, and financial technology.
His research on market structure is globally recognized and actively used by a wide range of prominent hedge funds and institutional organizations.
Before joining T1A, Craig served as a portfolio manager at Convex Asset Management, Tanius Technology, and QVR Advisors. Across those roles, he worked on derivatives, dispersion, algorithmic trading, portfolio construction, and dynamic asset allocation.
David Pegler
Head of Distribution
David is a co-founder of Tier1 Alpha Research, LLC, where he contributes to market analysis, institutional communication, and research distribution.
He brings extensive experience across global macro, equities, foreign exchange, and private capital. His work combines market-structure analysis with a top-down macroeconomic perspective and a disciplined approach to portfolio risk.
Before joining Tier1 Alpha, David served for 15 years as Head of FX Strategies at a large international family office. In that role, he managed currency exposure and developed foreign-exchange strategies across the firm’s global portfolio.
Michael Sekera
Financial Services Leadership
Michael brings over three decades of experience in wealth management and financial-services leadership.
He was Executive Director and owner of a retail RIA based in Columbus, Ohio, and spent 32 years affiliated with John Hancock Life Company.
A strong advocate for the integration of technology into financial services, Michael understands the evolving needs of financial professionals and product developers. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Ohio University and is a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC).