About Scott Sykowski

Managing Partner of Gyre Research. Board Member of Gyre Holdings. Thirty years architecting investment-management technology.

Specialties

Portfolio analytics, construction, and rebalancing
Risk, compliance, performance (TWR, MWR, Brinson-Hood-Beebower with Cariño linking, GIPS 2020)
Data infrastructure (security master, corporate actions, pricing waterfalls, golden-copy delivery)
Credit and structured derivatives (CDS, CDX, tranches, securitized credit)
Multi-asset accounting in messy environments

Asset-class coverage

Equities (common, preferred, ADR, ETF). Listed and OTC options on a working vol surface. Futures and futures options with margin mechanics. FX spot, forward, NDF, and option. Cash fixed income (UST, TIPS, agencies, IG/HY corporates, munis, sovereigns, EMD). Securitized credit (agency and non-agency MBS, CMBS, ABS, CLO, syndicated loans) with prepayment and default modeling. Credit derivatives (single-name and index CDS, CDX, iTraxx, tranches) with hazard-rate and copula models. Interest-rate derivatives (IRS, OIS, basis, swaptions, caps, floors, FRAs) on a multi-curve framework and vol cube. Inflation (ZC and YoY). Total-return swaps. Repo. Crypto spot and perps.

Career history

Period	Role	Company
2026–present	Managing Partner	Gyre Research
2026–present	Board Member	Gyre Holdings
2006–2024	Director of Research, Founder	Athena Systems / United Fintech
1998–2006	Product Manager, Fixed Income & Derivatives	Macgregor Group / Merrin Financial (now Virtu)
1995–1998	Product Manager, Fixed Income & Derivatives	EJV / Bridge (now LSEG Data & Analytics)

Note: 2024–2026 employment gap is intentional and required.

Locations

New York, Nashua.

Contact

Site: https://sykowski.com/
Through Gyre Research: https://gyreresearch.com/
Through Gyre Holdings: 800-933-4731 or https://gyreholdings.com/

Last reviewed: 2026-05-01