Hyde Park Investment Services, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with offices in New York City, Boston, and Santa Monica. Named after Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago, the home of the University of Chicago, HPIS provides analytical services to business & investment decision-makers. Our clients include executives and directors of private and public companies, investment firms, and family offices. Our team has extensive international business experience on all continents and a track record with over $14 billion in closed transactions.

Evgeny Maslennikov

Evgeny founded HPIS to facilitate business transactions and processes with custom analytics and execution services. His professional experience in law, private equity, and business inspired him to concentrate on the needs of decision-makers: executives and board members. Born in Moscow, Russia, Evgeny started his career as a lawyer at Noerr LLP, a leading European law firm, specializing in mergers & acquisitions and antitrust (competition) law. At Noerr, he represented Daimler, Siemens, Google, AMD, Motorola, Alcoa, Flextronics, and other American and European corporations and investment groups, which motivated him to continue his career internationally. He obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Chicago Law School, where he concentrated on business and received an outstanding service award. Evgeny continued his career in private equity while pursuing additional graduate studies at the University of Chicago for several more years. He has published articles and book chapters on corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, antitrust law, and other business subjects.

Peter Li

Peter has over two decades of management and executive experience in manufacturing, consumer goods, fashion, and fine art industries, primarily in the USA and China. He advises HPIS on investment sourcing, analysis, and fundraising efforts. Peter is the President of the Qing Yuan Friendship Association, a non-profit organization that provides support to companies seeking to establish business connections between China and the USA. He holds a Master’s degree in art analysis & investment and is an expert on international trade.

Yuelin (James) Wang

James obtained dual degrees in Computational Science & Engineering and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He focuses on data collection, database management, advanced computational data analytics (machine learning models), and data-driven decision-making (quantitative trading strategies) for HPIS. He has developed an AI automatic trading system based on random forest and reinforcement Q-learning model, which uses technical indicators as input. He participates in the Udacity “Artificial Intelligence for Trading” Nano-degree program in collaboration with WorldQuant.

He (Nancy) Wang

Nancy Wang holds a MS in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics from Brandeis University and a BA from Jilin University (top 10 in China). She has been with the company since 2018 and made progress from an intern to manager of market research. She has written and edited over 60 industry research reports and was a key contributor in due diligence of several transactions in healthcare, apparel, and food manufacturing industries. She is a CFA Level 2 and FRM Level 1 candidate.

Johannes de Nova graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley, and received his MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. He is an academic and research specialist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and was formerly a social sciences researcher at the Lawrence Hall of Science. Johannes has been with HPIS since its foundation, focusing on operations and back-office functions.