Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON
CEO
Chicago Analytic Capital Management LLC
Investing is rocket science to Sharath Sury. The CEO of Chicago Analytic Capital Management LLC, an investment adviser to 35 ultra-wealthy families, plies the financial markets with complex statistical models that he mastered as a teenage math whiz working in the space industry.
He learned computer programming languages as a boy and worked on Ronald Reagan's Star Wars initiative as a 15-year-old in Austin, Texas. Too young to drive, Mr. Sury hopped the city bus each day from high school to Lockheed Corp., where he developed mathematical models to calculate surface-to-air …