Christopher Huemmer, CFA, is a Vice President at The Northern Trust Company, Chicago. Christopher is currently responsible for equity strategy in NTGI's Exchange Traded Funds Group and providing equity product development, investment strategy and related activities for NTGI's FlexShares ETF products. He serves as the catalyst and conduit for turning NTGI's investment thought leadership into successful ETF products. The team levers NTGI's portfolio management and construction skill sets and engages with client facing partners to identify and develop innovative ETF investment strategies.

Prior to being named Senior Investment Strategist for ETFs, Christopher worked at Zacks Investment Research for twelve years. Most recently he served as Director of Index Services at Zacks Investment Research for six years focused on quantitative index strategies to be replicated in ETFs as well as other structured products. Huemmer received a B.S. degree from Cornell University and is a CFA charterholder. He is a member of the CFA Society of Chicago and the CFA Institute.