David Mascio

David A. Mascio (born December 25, 1970) is an American entrepreneur and college professor. He is the founder of Della Parola Capital Management, where he serves as Managing Principle and Chief Investment Officer. He is also an adjunct professor at Colorado State University’s College of Business. Mascio lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Career and Education
Mascio earned a B.A. in Economics and Business Management from the University of New Mexico - Robert O. Anderson School of Management in 1994. In 2006, he earned his M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.
Mascio’s began his finance career as a fundamental research analyst and portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch. Upon graduation from the University of New Mexico, he moved to Colorado and founded Mascio Asset Management, a boutique tactical asset management firm. Through an acquisition, this firm became northern Colorado’s first independent trust company, Poudre River Valley Trust Company. Mascio remained there, serving as Chief Investment Officer and head of investment policy.
In 2005, Mascio, with university professors J. Kenton Zumwalt and Hong Miao, founded Della Parola Capital Management, a fund specializing in advanced tactical portfolio management for institutional clients. In 2013, Mascio, Zumwalt, and Miao developed a quantitative behavioral strategy called BOSS (Beta Optimization, Sector rotation, and Security selection) that allocates capital exclusively to equities within the S&P 500 Index and uses a model-driven process to evaluate the market risk environment. Mascio currently serves as Chief Investment Officer and Managing Principal and has professional finance experience in investment management, private equity, macro and microeconomic forecasting, hedging strategies, and derivatives strategies.
Mascio is currently a PhD candidate in Finance at EDHEC Risk Institute in Nice, France. Following the win, the team participated in the Regional finals in Toronto, Canada, where they took fourth place out of 43 teams. Mascio’s was the first team from CSU to win at the local level.
In 2013, Mascio was conference director for the Global Financial Summit at CSU. The event included keynote guest Alice Schroeder, biographer for Warren Buffett and columnist for Bloomberg View.
Memberships and Community Involvement
Mascio is a member of the Investment Management Consulting Association, and the Chartered Financial Analyst Society of Colorado (CFA). He remains involved in athletics, serving as Chairman of the advisory board for the Northern Colorado Fellowship for Christian Athletes.

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