Pennapa is a senior quantitative research analyst for the Portfolio Solutions Group at MSIM. She has 14 years of industry experience. In her current role, Pennapa is responsible for quantitative investment research and manager selection in public markets. In addition, she focuses on asset allocation, portfolio optimization, rebalancing, and after-tax optimization. Prior to joining the firm in 2010, Pennapa was a hedge fund research analyst at Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company, responsible for fund selection and rating as well as publishing comprehensive hedge fund research reports. Previously, she was at ING Fund of Hedge Funds where she served as a quantitative analyst. Before that, she was a business consultant with IBM, serving clients within the financial sectors. Pennapa received her B.S. in Statistics, summa cum laude and class valedictorian, from Chulalongkorn University. She also received an M.S. in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago. She holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation.