Robert Johnson

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Co-Chief Executive Officer(co-CEO) and Chief Technology Officer(CTO) @ Komainu
Singapore
Robert Johnson's Location
United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About Robert Johnson

Financial Services CTO/CIO/Technology Lead with extensive management experience and strategic international leadership across global organisations both buy-side and sell-side. An excellent track record of innovation in product development, trading development, and driving revenue growth. Experience spanning almost all asset classes, primary and secondary markets, from vanilla electronic FI and crypto to exotic OTC derivative products, and regulation across EMEA, APAC and US regions. Equally comfortable interacting with quants, engineers, board members, regulators, auditors, traders/portfolio managers and support staff.See: www.financialreasoning.comFintech blog: www.financialreasoning.com/blogKey skills in front office systems strategic planning, project management, engineering, software development, pricing/risk management and quant/tech team management. Other interests include: Cloud computing, electronic and automated trading platforms, pricing and risk management systems, management of international FO quant, development and tech support teams along with MO and BO tech service provision.Asset classes covered include: Derivatives of all flavours, fixed Income (credit, repo, rates), structured products (exotics), debt (primary and secondary markets), equity, sec lending/repo, and latterly digital assets including crypto trading.

Robert Johnson's Current Company Details
Komainu

Komainu

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Co-Chief Executive Officer(co-CEO) and Chief Technology Officer(CTO)
Singapore
Robert Johnson Work Experience Details
  • Komainu
    Co-Chief Executive Officer(Co-Ceo) And Chief Technology Officer(Cto)
    Komainu
    Singapore
  • Komainu
    Co-Ceo And Chief Technology Officer(Cto)
    Komainu Feb 2024 - Present
    London, Gb
  • Komainu
    Chief Technology Officer (Cto)
    Komainu Oct 2023 - Present
    London, Gb
    Global regulated services for digital assets including custody, collateral and staking.
  • Coremont Llp
    Chief Technology Officer (Cto), Partner
    Coremont Llp Nov 2018 - Feb 2023
    West End, England, Gb
    Coremont are a fintech (formerly Brevan Howard) providing integrated front to back office services for investment managers and financial institutions in EMEA, US and APAC regions. The role encompassed CTO, CIO, CDO technology/information/data/digital mandates. Strategic planning and BAU responsibilities included all software engineering; market and reference data procurement, storage and distribution; infosec, technology architecture and infrastructure (on prem and cloud); daily trade, risk generation and reporting; resourcing across all relevant functional areas and geographies (LN, NY, CT, HK); policies and procedures. A senior leadership and client-facing role as necessary.
  • Mufg Securities
    Managing Director, Head Of Front Office Solutions
    Mufg Securities Jan 2013 - May 2018
    Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Jp
    De facto CTO for the international securities business including management of the quant team. The Front Office Solutions (FOS) department had responsibility for the provision of quantitative technology and front office applications to the firm. It incorporated engineering, quant development and quant analyst functions. The support mandate covered a variety of desks, both primary and secondary, such as Structured Products (exotics), Fixed Income (including repo, derivatives, gov and corp/credit cash product trading), Treasury, Equities, Debt Capital Markets along with ensuring downstream support functions continue to operate with any new business flow.Product Control, Data Management, Legal, Compliance and Risk (Market, xVA, Credit, Operational, etc) functions were also supported. Systems for each were developed and maintained with an emphasis on pricing, risk, trading platform access and market data delivery. FOS staff were located in London, New York and Hong Kong (which also covers Singapore).MUFG Securities is the international (ie excluding Japan) securities trading arm of the MUFG group.(Note: MUFG Securities EMEA was formerly named Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, Mitsubishi Securities International, and Tokyo-Mitsubishi International during my tenure.)
  • Mufg Securities
    Executive Director, Head Of Front Office Technology
    Mufg Securities Nov 2008 - Dec 2012
    Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Jp
    De facto CTO for London, subsequently rolling out tech stack to Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. Responsible for all technology strategy and operations within the front office across regions with local regional team structure. Notably focussed on systems development and integration. Brought desk-aligned engineers and quant developers together into a single multi-asset class, multi-trading strategy, international department. Encompassed both flow and structured products. Desks supported included Fixed Income, Equities, Repo/SBL, Commodities, CBs. Also supported Middle Office and primary business. Built out risk infrastructure on Azure cloud. Incorporated all Quant Analysts in 2012 to form Front Office Solutions department.
  • Mufg Securities
    Director
    Mufg Securities Apr 2000 - Nov 2008
    Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, Jp
    Responsible for technology within the Exotic Derivatives Group including quant development. Initially the only quant developer on the desk I developed the pricing and risk management system for MUFG handling all the exotics portfolios along with their hedges. The system was also used for group risk and PnL reporting.
  • Investment Intelligence
    Team Leader
    Investment Intelligence Apr 1998 - Apr 2000
    Real time C++ feed handler development for Spearhead treasury management system and Wingz financial services spreadsheet app.
  • Midas Kapiti International
    Senior Developer
    Midas Kapiti International Apr 1995 - Apr 1998
    Real time C/C++ feed handler development for CityDesk product amongst others.
  • Manchester Met. University
    Research Fellow
    Manchester Met. University 1993 - 1995
    Research into the development of systems for parallel temporal automated reasoning. Several papers published.

Robert Johnson Education Details

  • Queen Mary University Of London
    Queen Mary University Of London
    Computational Logic
  • Aston University
    Aston University
    Computing Science
  • North Leamington School
    North Leamington School

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What company does Robert Johnson work for?

Robert Johnson works for Komainu

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Robert Johnson's current role is Co-Chief Executive Officer(co-CEO) and Chief Technology Officer(CTO).

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Robert Johnson attended Queen Mary University Of London, Aston University, North Leamington School.

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