| Dr. Chris Jones, Chief Investment Officer |
Chris is the Chief Investment Officer for Key Asset Management. Chris has been investing in hedge funds in a professional capacity for 13 years, previously heading up the hedge fund team at io Investors. Prior to this, he has worked in trading and asset management capacities at Société Générale and Crédit Lyonnais. Chris has presented lectures, conference papers and seminars at universities in North America, Europe and Australasia and has published several papers on trading and investment strategies. He has a BA in Mathematics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Cambridge, where he is a Visiting Associate and occasional Lecturer.
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| Dr. Toby R J Goodworth, Head of Risk Management |
Toby is Head of Risk Management. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from University London College, and a First Class Honours degree (MSci) in physics, also from UCL. Previously Toby worked at io Investors as Quantitative Risk Manager, where he developed and ran bespoke risk management tools for the hedge fund of fund products. Prior to this he was a Risk Analyst focusing on global equity quantitative trading strategies within io Investors.
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| Philippa Owen, Investment Director |
Philippa is an Investment Director with particular expertise in equity long/short strategies. Philippa has been a fund of hedge fund research analyst/portfolio manager since 2001. Before joining Key Asset Management Philippa was at io Investors, where she was a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to this, she worked in South Africa with Fairheads International Asset Managers where she was an Equity and Gilt/Bond dealer and assistant portfolio manager. Philippa graduated from University of Cape Town and holds the CFA designation.
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| Igor Puljic, Investment Director |
Igor Puljic is an Investment Director with particular expertise in relative value strategies. Previously, Igor was a Research Analyst and Portfolio Manager with io Investors for five years, working on both traditional and alternative funds. For the last 2 years at io, Igor had been responsible for both research and portfolio management of io's hedge fund of funds. Igor holds the CFA designation and is a Financial Risk Management Charterholder and graduated from City University London with a BSc in Banking.
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| Gideon Margo, Senior Analyst |
Gideon is a Senior Analyst in the Investment Management and Research team. Prior to that Gideon spent most of his career at Stamford Associates, which provides manager selection advice to a number of multi-manager vehicles as well as blue chip pension schemes. He was also a Research Analyst at Bestinvest, a private wealth management house, where he was responsible for the selection of long only managers as well as those in the hedge asset class. Gideon graduated from Sheffield University and holds the CFA designation.
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| Simon Leslie, Senior Analyst |
Simon is a Senior Analyst in the Investment Management and Research team. Before joining Key Asset Management he was head of the research team at Bourne Park Capital, a hedge fund advisory firm. Prior to this Simon worked for Eurex Frankfurt in both equity derivative product development and operations. He graduated from University College Dublin with an MBS in Finance and holds BA (Hons) in Business Information Management. Simon also holds the CFA designation.
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| James Haworth-Booth, Operational Risk Manager |
James is an Operational Risk Manager at Key Asset Management (UK) Limited. James joined Key as Senior Fund Accountant before moving to the Investment Team. Previously, James was at KPMG, where he worked primarily on the audits of Financial Sector clients and where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He also holds a BA (Hons) in French and Spanish from University of Newcastle.
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| Raj Jain, Quantitative Associate |
Raj is a Quantitative Associate in the Investment Management Team. Before joining Key Asset Management Raj was at Investec Asset Management in the Quantitative Risk & Performance Management team, where he developed and ran bespoke risk management tools. Prior to this, he worked with Pershing Inc and EDS Consulting as a Project Manager, where he led consulting assignments for large multinationals. He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelors degree (BE) from the University of Madras.
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| Isabella Galliers-Pratt, Analyst |
Isabella is an Analyst within the Investment Management and Research team. Prior to joining Key Asset Management Isabella completed work placements with UBS Wealth Management and Cheviot Asset Management where she gained experience in the running of funds. Isabella holds a BA (Hons.) from the University of Bristol.
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