I am Founder and Chief Investment Officer of LongTail Alpha, LLC, an investment management firm that focuses exclusively on extracting value from the "tails", or the end portions of distribution curves represented by bell-shaped lines in a graph. As a portfolio manager and trader at some of the largest and most successful investment managers for over two decades, I have realized that simplifying the apparent complexity in financial markets requires an incredible amount of patience and skill, an ability to think outside the box, and to explore in places where others have not ventured. I combine a top-down macro approach with quantitative skills that I developed in receiving my Ph.D. In theoretical physics, along with persistence from running many 100-mile ultramarathons, and execution discipline I obtained in receiving my Airline Transport Pilot certificate.