Valer Zetocha

Founder at Quosentia AG

Speaker

Valer Zetocha is the founder of Quosentia AG, a Zurich-based company working at the intersection of quantitative finance and artificial intelligence. He has held senior quantitative roles at Julius Baer, Banco Santander, JPMorgan and Bear Stearns. At Banco Santander, he served as a senior trader, managing the equity correlation book.

His research interests focus on equity derivatives, particularly correlation modelling, gap risk pricing and market data dynamics. More recently, his work has expanded into the development of AI harnesses and agentic systems for quantitative research and trading environments, with a focus on bringing artificial intelligence into the workflows of trading floors.

He holds an M.Sc. in Physics from Comenius University in Bratislava and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.