Student Managed Investment Fund
Spring 2021 Students
Anton Ashrafyan was born and raised in Moscow. He won a green card through a Diversity Visa Lottery
and came to the United States alone at the age of 13. He recently interned as an institutional
analyst at Raymond James and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in finance
with a concentration in investment valuation. Ashrafyan is passionate about understanding
financial market movements and learning various investment strategies. He is a member
of the investment club and a first-generation college student within USF’s Corporate
Mentorships Program. He joined the ASA program to get hands-on experience in equity
research and his plans include building a successful career in the financial industry.
Robert Camejo is a first generation American, born and raised in Tampa, and is set to graduate
in May 2022. He is a junior pursuing a dual-degree in finance, with a concentration
in asset management and quantitative economics and Econometrics, accompanied by a
minor in entrepreneurship. Through his business classes, he has maintained a 3.95
GPA. In his first year at USF, he joined the professional business fraternity, Delta
Sigma Pi, which has allowed him to improve his professional and interpersonal skills.
Through his networking within the fraternity, he was able to secure a wealth management
internship at Merrill Lynch in St. Petersburg for the 2019-20 school year. Camejo
hopes to improve his analytical abilities through the ASA program to initiate a career
in equity research before starting his own asset management fund.
Skylar Cantone is a first-generation college student pursuing a degree in personal finance. Last
summer, she operated a branch office with Vector Marketing. Outside of the Student
Managed Investment Fund, Cantone is a member of the USF Professional Sales Club as
an account manager, the Corporate Mentor Program, the Financial Planning Association
and Delta Gamma. She aspires to pursue a career in asset management and hopes to develop
her quantitative analytical skills through the ASA program.
Timothy Henning is a junior pursuing a degree in finance with an accompanying minor in economics.
He grew up outside of New York City and played two years of amateur hockey before
enrolling at USF. This past summer, Henning interned with AIG’s asset management division
on the corporate private placements team within the broader private credit group,
which manages roughly $40 billion for the insurer. Prior to AIG, during his sophomore
year, Henning interned at Crosstree, a local boutique investment bank exclusively
focused on the life sciences industry in addition to serving as the president of the
school’s Student Investment Club. He spent his freshman summer with Pursuant Capital,
a local search fund. Henning is currently interning at Ballast Point Ventures and
will join Wells Fargo’s Asset Backed Finance team in Charlotte, North Carolina, next
summer.
Rafael Nobre is a senior currently pursuing a double major in finance and business analytics and
information systems. He was born in Brazil and moved to the United States after having
developed a passion for investments, inspired by his father, who is a real estate
investor and an entrepreneur. Nobre previously served as a calculus, financial accounting
and business analytics tutor, which allowed him to help other students to succeed.
This past summer, he interned in Citi in its Equity Research department, a career
he would like to pursue after graduation. Nobre hopes the challenge in the ASA program
will provide him with some real-world experience in security analysis and stock valuation.
Upon graduation, he plans to pursue his Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Tyler Schulman was born and raised in New Jersey before moving to Tampa to attend USF. He is a member
of the Honors College and Business Honors Program and he is pursuing a double major
in personal financial planning and finance with a concentration in asset management.
Schulman spent this past summer as a wealth-management summer analyst with the J.P.
Morgan Private Bank. He has held internships at Raymond James and Morgan Stanley.
Schulman is the founding chapter president of his business fraternity, Phi Chi Theta,
and he has helped the chapter grow to over 60 members. After graduation in May 2021,
Schulman plans to obtain his CFP and CFA certifications while pursuing a career in
asset or wealth management.
Aravind Thota is from Tampa and he is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in finance accompanied by a
minor in economics. He is a brother of the professional business fraternity, Delta
Sigma Pi, Theta Phi Chapter, which has provided him with a platform to seek valuable
experiences in various business fields, specifically in finance. Thota is currently
an investment banking Intern at LCG Advisors in Tampa. He previously held positions
as a market research analyst intern at Crosstree Capital Partners and a financial
and data analyst intern at Tampa Electric Company. His exposure to different positions
in the business sectors has allowed him to discover his true passion for investment
management and banking. He hopes to develop his fundamental and technical financial
skills through the Applied Securities Analysis program/ßÙßÇÂþ» Student Managed Investment
Fund with the aspiration of establishing a career as an investment banker in New York
City.
Mark Carlos Zevallos is a first-generation American pursuing a degree in finance with a concentration in investment management, though he came into USF as a pre-med major. He volunteered at the Yuengling Center during Hurricane Irma, ventured on a medical service trip to the Dominican Republic, and shadowed physicians in the Florence region of Italy. He hopes to take the knowledge from Applied Securities Analysis to be a better investor.