Product Solutions Team

Chris Flynn, CFA

Manager

Chris has been with CEM since 2003 with increasing responsibilities.  He is currently responsible for CEM’s IT strategy and for working with client service representatives to ensure the best solutions for clients' needs.  He provides structure to CEM's development processes and product solution designs, oversees solution implementation and communicates technical requirements to the Engineering team. Chris has experience presenting benchmarking results and research to clients and has testified as an expert on pension fund costs.  Prior to working at CEM, Chris worked as a developer at an investment management firm. 

Alex Beath, Ph.D.

Analyst

Having joined CEM in 2010, Alex is responsible for modeling and programming support to the business teams. Prior to joining CEM, he was engaged in post doctoral research at the Center for Biological Physics at University of California at San Diego.  His work included unsupervised machine learning, Monte Carlo simulation, minimum entropy models, belief propagation, multiple sequence alignments, maximum likelihood solutions of evolution rates, paramagnetic data clustering, non-linear regression, finite sample size data correction and exact, computational and heuristic mathematical modeling.

Tommy Cao

Analyst

Tommy joined CEM in 2011. He is currently responsible for modeling and programming support for CEM’s benchmarking services. He has also been involved in client support for Investment Benchmarking Service clients in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining CEM, he had experience as an optimization specialist and research methodologist. Tommy holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree in Operations Research from the University of Waterloo.

Daria Martchenko, M.Sc.

Analyst

Daria is responsible for design and implementation of enhancements and updates to CEM's proprietary benchmark models.  Prior to joining CEM in 2012 Daria worked as a research scientist for Environment Canada.  Daria holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmetrics from McGill University and a Master of Science degree in Computational Statistics from University of Guelph.

Norayr Vardanyan, MBA

Analyst

Norayr joined CEM in 2012 and provides development support for CEM’s benchmarking models as well as analytical support for CEM best practice research projects.  Experience in Canada and the United States as a business systems analyst and IS Manager complements years of experience gained at the World Bank IT Enterprise Incubator in Armenia as an IT, financial and business analyst.  Norayr has conducted requirements analysis, business analysis, financial modeling, reporting, automation, software development and testing, project management, data and statistical analysis.  He has an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a MS Computer & Electronics Engineer from the State Engineering University, Yerevan, Armenia.