Val Zlatev is Senior Founding Partner and CIO of Analog Century Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar long/short equity fund focused on hard technology sectors. Prior to Analog Century, Val was a Partner at Quentec Asset Management (2012 – 2018), a New York based TMT sector fund. At Quentec, Val focused on investments in hard technology sectors: semiconductors, communications, and technology hardware – the fund’s largest allocations and most profitable sectors. Val worked collaboratively with Peter Law, Senior Analyst, and the research team to enhance the firm’s research efforts. Val built many of the quantitative tools for data collection, analysis, and interpretation.  Prior to Quentec, Val worked as Senior Analyst at Kingdon Capital from 2008-2011, covering the semiconductor and hardware sectors. Val began his investment career as an Investment Analyst at MSD Capital covering TMT sectors in 2007. From 1999 – 2007, Val was an Associate Principal for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He provided strategic and operational advice to senior executives of hard technology businesses, including semiconductor, smartphone, and US telecom companies. Val studied all aspects of these businesses, providing insights and recommendations into sales channel strategies, supply chain management decisions, supplier negotiations, and inventory management decisions. Val holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, 1999. Val’s thesis furthered understanding of the early moments following the Big Bang. ScienceWatch called it the “4th most cited cosmology paper of 1999” Quintessence, cosmic coincidence, and the cosmological constant. Phys.Rev.Lett., 82:896–899, astro-ph/9807002. Val earned his Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Mathematics from Berea College in 1993 (magna cum laude).