Zeno Moves – May 2024
- Alphadyne Asset Management has hired Kakyo Okina, previously a Japanese government bond trader at Mizuho Securities Co.
- Beryl Capital Management has appointed Michael Callahan as Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations. Prior to joining Beryl, Callahan worked at Man Group.
- ExodusPoint Capital Management hired three portfolio managers in Dubai. Valery Ivanov joined from Point72 as a portfolio manager focused on the consumer sector. Omar Soomro previously worked with Garda Capital Partners and Moore Capital Management, will join as a portfolio manager trading emerging markets. Rob Kitchen started with the fund to trade macro strategy. Kitchen was most recently at Amia Capital and previously worked at BlueCrest.
- Florin Court Capital has appointed Mike de Groot as Managing Director, Product Management. De Groot previously worked with the at BlueCove.
- Hudson River Trading has hired Joshua Fisher two years after leaving Citadel.Fisher’s new role at Hudson River is in trading tech.
- Kamet Capital has hired Gerald Chua as a Portfolio Manager from Lauro Asset Management.
- LMR Partners has added Mike Severo from Goldman Sachs where he traded oil, exotics and commodity index options. Jordan Valer has also joined as a Portfolio Manager from Vitol where he was an oil-derivatives trader.
- Paloma Partners has removed Neil Chriss, the Co-Chief investment officer and Chief Executive Officer at the multi-strategy hedge fund.
- Verition Fund Management has hired Shin Kobayashi as a portfolio manager from Citigroup. Kobayashi will be focused on yen rates trading.
- Verition has hired Hao Long, a from Citadel’s Surveyor Capital unit. He joins as an Asia equity capital markets portfolio manager. Yasutaka Kuga has also joined as a Japan event-driven portfolio manager in Hong Kong. James Regan is joining Verition after leaving UBS in London for a portfolio management role in in New York, where he’ll presumably be running a macro pod.
- Walleye hired Swyam Thacker from Goldman Sachs for systematic and discretionary macro research in New York . Jessica Vanquin joins Walleye from Citadel for as a systematic macro portfolio manager in London.