• Cash Prime Brokerage• Structured Trading and Alternative Repo• Direct Lending / Private Credit• Agency Lending

• Head of the investment manager including portfolio management, trading, operations, marketing and compliance.• Responsible for design and development of Numerai’s investment platform; identified, scoped and executed on work that improved the fund’s backtested sharpe based on significant development of the data platform, portfolio optimization process and trading implementation.• Led business development and investor relations for the fund; authored monthly and ad-hoc investor/prospect letters and presentations.• Set up and launched the investment management business. Additionally, led business model optimization and corporate spin out to improve overall capital structure and risk management.• Recruited the investment manager’s staff, inclusive of the portfolio manager, chief data scientist, data engineers, CFO and director of operations.• Designed and coded Numerai’s order creation and management system, trade cost analysis reporting tools, performance analytics and investment universe process.

• Responsible for capital markets interface with the goal of maximizing returns derived from trading and financing implementation.• Integrated quantitative financing framework into portfolio construction process driving stock selection and trade allocation; directed FX implementation and collateral optimization models.• Designed and implemented borrow cost forecasting signals.• Led implementation of ISDA and prime brokerage agreements across counterparties achieving improved commercial terms inclusive of commissions, financing, margin rates, term commitments and appropriate arranging and netting agreements.• Negotiated bespoke trade structures to capitalize on idiosyncratic dislocations in the market.

Responsible for prime brokerage, equity & fixed income finance trading for hedge funds and long only products across London, New York and Hong Kong.Governance Roles• Head of BlackRock Financing Counterparty Management Committee• Member of BlackRock Corporate Governance Committee• Member of BlackRock Trading and Liquidity Strategies Leadership CommitteePrevious Positions- Trading Manager for Equity & Fixed Income Financing, Equity Finance Trader, Business AnalystBarclays Global Investors was acquired by BlackRock on December 1st, 2009