Gregory B. Woods
Vice President, Lightstone Capital
Gregory Woods joined Lightstone Capital in 1999. He works closely with John Lightstone in the development new portfolio strategies. Gregory also oversees the daily maintenance and tracking of the live portfolios, while having overall responsibility for quality control on the multiple databases and data sources. He is also in charge of the implementation and trading of the live strategies.
He worked on a number of research papers and books, including The Fourth Mega-Market (Acampora: Hyperion, 2000) where his research was focused on the economic conditions, and stock market movements of late 19th century America. He also coauthored the papers: “Using Quantitative Methods of Stock Selection to Offer Shariah Compliant Strategies Across All Equity Styles”, presented at Islamic Finance World, Toronto, Canada. May, 2007; and “Searching for Alpha”, presented at Islamic Finance World, New York. May, 2008. These papers focused on creating equity strategies that comply with Shariah Law but are also benchmarked to conventional style indexes so that they give investors the possibility of asset allocation.
Mr. Woods holds a B.S. degree from Fordham University’s College of Business Administration, majoring in Finance and Economics. He holds a Series 65 License. . Mr. Woods is treasurer of several community organizations. He is married, with four daughters.
