Ronald M. Egalka
Ron is President and CEO of Rampart Investment Management, which he co-founded in 1983 with David Fraley. He is also President of Rampart Securities, Inc., a NASD member broker/dealer.

Ron oversees the development and implementation of investment strategies and tactics for Rampart. He has created a variety of analytical and management tools including the Rampart Time Premium Index, published each week in Barron’s, the Rampart Volatility Indexes and the Rampart Options Management System (ROMS®), the technological platform from which Rampart’s portfolio managers deliver the company’s equity options management expertise.

As one of the early pioneers in personal computers and quantitative hedging, he was a founding Director of the Boston Computer Society, Charter Member of the National Options and Futures Society, a Founder of the Boston Options Society and a guest lecturer on derivatives at Boston College. From 1973 to 1981, Ron was a portfolio manager and senior research officer at The Boston Company, specializing in hedged equity strategies. In 1981, Ron joined Colonial Management Associates where he developed and managed a corporate cash management mutual fund and many of the company’s portfolio hedging capabilities.

A long time proponent of hedged equities as an asset class, Ron has focused on helping create an industry benchmark for options programs. The creation and subsequent launch of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) CBOE/S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (BXM) in 2002 was the realization of that objective. On March 27, 2003, the CBOE announced that it had licensed Rampart as its first licensee of the BXM, which became the strategic basis for Rampart’s new index option investment vehicles.

Ron is a Trustee of the U.S.S. Constitution Museum and a member of the CBOE Institutional Investor Advisory Committee. He graduated from Boston University (BS in BA, 1970) and the Harvard Business School (OPM, 2001).