Ron Santella

Senior Advisor – Millennium Bridge Capital
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer – Equable Shares

Mr. Santella founded Equable Shares in 2018 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer. He has approximately forty years of experience managing equity, options, and volatility strategies across multiple market cycles and investment environments.

Mr. Santella began his career in 1985 as a listed options trader at O’Connor & Associates in Chicago. He subsequently served as Head Trader and Portfolio Manager for arbitrage strategies at Grace Brothers.

In 1990, Mr. Santella founded SAM Investments, a hedge fund focused primarily on convertible bond and volatility arbitrage strategies. Following more than fifteen years of managing a series of hedge funds, he established a family office in 2005 to invest his own capital alongside a limited number of partners in alternative investment strategies.

In 2008, Mr. Santella was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Fox River Execution, an institutional brokerage firm based in Geneva, Illinois. During his tenure, the firm experienced significant growth in its customer base, revenues, and profitability, cultivating in its acquisition by SunGard in 2010.

Throughout his career, he has managed investment strategies across a broad range of market conditions and currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Millennium Bridge Capital.

Mr. Santella earned a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.