Zeno Moves – August 2024
- Balyasny has hired Su Wang, from DeepMind and. He was recruited as senior research engineer. Wang spent a year at DeepMind, following three years of AI research at Google.
- Cubist has added investment professionals from Graham Capital Management and WorldQuant. Erik Forseth and Timur Gatanov are understood to have joined Cubist Systematic Strategies as PMs in New York and California, respectively. Forseth joins after more than seven years as a senior quant researcher at Graham. While there, he worked with a systematic macro approach to futures and FX trading. Gatanov, worked as a portfolio management director at WorldQuant for roughly four and-a-half years.
- Diameter Capital Partners has hired Michael Cohn to work as general counsel and chief compliance officer in its New York headquarters. Cohn joins Diameter following over two decades at Fortress Investment Group where he was latterly CCO and deputy general counsel.
- Norman Kilarjian joined the London-headquartered firm in its New York office earlier this month as global head of business development.
- LMR has senior portfolio manager from Millennium Management to work in its New York office. It is understood that Rohit Bhatia began working as an equity derivatives PM at after nearly two years at Millennium.
- LMR has hired Joseph Macaione as the head of the firm’s North America client relations group this month. Macaione spent eight years at Citadel, where he was a director in the firm’s client and partner group, focused on investor relations.
- Man Group is hiring Anurag Aggarwal from Nekton Capital. Aggarwal is set to trade an equity long/short strategy.
- Millennium has bolstered its business development team in Asia. It is understood that Terence Lee joined in the Singapore office earlier this month from Blackstone where he worked in the business development team, which is responsible for sourcing new investment strategies and portfolio managers.
- Paloma Partners has appointed Pei Ng, a former executive from Brevan Howard Asset Management as its new Chief Financial Officer. Ng joins Paloma as a managing director from Brevan Howard, where he served as a finance officer.
- Point72 has hired James Connelly a fixed income portfolio manager from Millennium. Connelly is understood to have started at Point72 this month as a portfolio manager within the firm’s global macro team to run a team of investment analysts.
- Rokos Capital hires Ossie Manners a veteran in electronic trading as the head of systematic technology. Manners previously led Citi’s commodities electronic trading division for four years. Prior to joining Citi, Manners spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs.
- Squarepoint Capital has hired Google DeepMind Staff Research Engineer Grégoire Delétang as Quantitative Researcher based in London to focus on large-scale deep learning.