About The Team
Warren Pies, E.R.P
Cofounder & Strategist
Prior to founding 3Fourteen Research, Warren led Ned Davis Research’s Energy and Commodity strategy. In that role, he built the firm’s commodity-related studies, models, and unique indicators. His research combines proprietary fundamental, technical and macro indicators to identify major investment themes and market trends affecting capital markets.
Warren is a frequent contributor to the media including participating in the 2013 Barron’s MLP Roundtable discussion, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and RealVision. In 2014, Euromoney Institutional Investor awarded Warren the Padraic Fallon award for his research on the Shale Revolution. Outside of the research world, Warren has worked as a practicing attorney specializing in regulatory approvals for various industrial activities and projects. He has also owned, operated, and sold a portfolio of self-storage properties to a national REIT.
He earned both his Bachelor of Science and Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida. Warren is an Energy Risk Professional – Certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
At 3Fourteen, Warren works closely with a team of analysts, data scientists, and developers whose expertise ranges from machine learning, time series analysis, and application development.
“As investors, we should consciously choose our narratives and test them against the hard surfaces of data, being careful not to fool ourselves.”
“When it comes to ML, you want to be looking for truths or theories about markets that persist through time because those are going to be the ones that you can have the most confidence in.”
Fernando Vidal
Cofounder & Chief Data Scientist
Fernando spent 7 years working as a quantitative analyst at Ned Davis Research’s consulting group conducting research, building and testing models and studies for institutional investors. Following this work in the investment space, he spent 6 years founding and leading a Data Science team at SauceLabs, a VC-backed fast growing market leader in software testing based out of San Francisco. His team worked on AI and Machine Learning applications involving large-scale time series analysis and classification models.
At 3Fourteen, Fernando leads our model development process and brings machine learning research into our mix of qualitative analysis and quantitative rigor. His many years of experience implementing machine learning models at scale has provided him a combination of healthy skepticism and deep appreciation for how these techniques can add value to the investment process.
He earned a Master of Science in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech and a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from the University of South Florida. He is also the lead inventor on multiple patents related to machine learning for time series analysis and unsupervised learning.
Gary Sarkissian, C.F.A.
Senior Research Analyst
Gary Sarkissian is a Senior Research Analyst at 3Fourteen Research. He works on developing models and conducting analyses to support the firm’s data-driven investment strategies.
Gary’s career spans over 20 years in the financial services industry. He began in the residential mortgage banking industry working for the mortgage division of Lennar Homes and later joined a nationwide mortgage broker where he helped build out its correspondent lending platform. In 2007, Gary moved into wealth management by joining Citi Smith Barney, which later became Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. In 2011, he earned his CFA charter and joined Ned Davis Research where his primary role was supporting the firm’s Chief Sector Strategist. During his time at NDR, Gary created and maintained the firm’s U.S. sector ranking model and developed numerous proprietary tools and studies for the firm’s institutional clients. In addition, he authored and co-authored publications relating to sector strategy.
He later joined Putnam Investments in 2014 where he conducted fundamental equity research for the global financials team, with coverage including industries such as banks, REITs, insurance companies, exchanges, brokers, and BDCs. Gary also managed a team of sector research associates spanning three geographic regions and was later promoted to being the lead stock analyst for the firm’s small-cap value fund.
In 2019, he joined CFA Society Boston where he led the development of professional educational offerings for the fifth largest CFA society globally. During his time at CFAB, Gary worked closely with the society’s education committee to develop educational programs, participated in the content development for those programs, and hosted and moderated various live webinars with notable speakers from the investment industry and academia. In addition to overseeing educational offerings for members, Gary also led the society’s CFA practice exam development team for all three levels of the CFA exam, from which the Level III practice exam was produced exclusively for CFA Institute and used by Level III candidates globally.
Gary graduated from the University of South Florida with a major in finance and minor in economics. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of CFA institute. He resides in the Greater Boston Area with his wife and two children.
