Walter Vester

Walt Vester is Senior Director of Operations Excellence at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). At BCG he oversees Performance Management, Process Excellence, and Change Management of a 1000+ headcount shared services organization. Prior to BCG, he founded Huygens: The Tactical Robo-Advisor, an internet-automated investment manager offering diversified index investing with active downside risk management. Before Huygens, Walt was a Managing Director in Blackstone’s Private Equity division, and was a buy-side equity research analyst at AllianceBernstein. He has held previous positions at BCG and Adaptive Broadband Corporation. Early in his career, Walt was an engineer developing algorithms for special ops/secure military radio communications at Harris Corporation. He has multiple US & UK patents, an MBA in Finance from Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania, a BS in Computer Engineering from RPI, an MS in Applied Physics from Case Western, and a Series 65 license.