We are a fintech company that looks for new ways to do finance. Our principal area of activities are the provision of investment solutions to asset managers, wealth managers and other institutional clients. We use cutting edge technologies such as Machine Learning in order to offer innovative quantitative strategies to our clients. Cirdan is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). We operate in compliance with European regulations such as MIFID 2 and EMIR. Cirdan is located in Knightsbridge, London.
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Antonio started his career in the fixed income desk of Citigroup in Milan. He then moved to London where he was part of the Portfolio Team in Barclays CIB, covering roles from Regulatory Capital and RWA trading to Counterparty Risk trading and Client Capital Management. Antonio founded Cirdan Capital Management in 2014.
Christian holds post-graduate degrees in both mathematics and software engineering at the University of Oxford and is currently studying for a post-graduate degree in business administration at the University of Cambridge. Additionally, he holds both the PRM and FRM designations in risk management. Before joining Cirdan, Christian spent over 15 years in investment banking in Sydney, Hong Kong, Tokyo, London and Paris in a variety of roles covering risk management, trading, structuring and sales. Most recently Christian held senior positions in equity and hybrid derivatives structuring.
Peter has more than 30 years of experience in credit functions. He has held Senior Credit roles for Credit Agricole Indosuez and Barclays and is the former head of Corporate Credit, EMEA and Acting Chief Credit Officer at Credit Suisse. He is on the board of the Turnaround Managers Association and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers
Alessandro has held senior institutional sales roles at primary investment banks covering European accounts and has previously worked for a number of years in the Investment department of a large European asset manager. He has worked and lived in different European countries and he has a postgraduate education in the field of Economics and Finance.
Prior to joining Cirdan Capital, Marco worked in Societe Generale and Credit Agricole CIB in Milan in the asset management and interest rate derivatives division covering the main Italian institutional clients. Marco holds a Master of Science in Finance from Bocconi University in Milan.
Zhe has a Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering from Tianjin University. During his Ph.D., Zhe worked as a researcher at University College of London. The Ph.D. project involved numerical simulations and optimization of complex mechanical problems. During the last few years, Zhe has been mainly working on creating,back-testing and implementing systematic trading strategies and indexes using statistical technologies such as Gene Expression Programming (GEP), machine learning models and time series models.
Prior to joining Cirdan Capital, Conor worked at Commerzbank in Equity Derivatives and Structured Products Sales and at UBS in UHNW Wealth Management, in London and Frankfurt. Conor holds a Masters in Management degree specialised in finance from ESCP Europe in Paris.
Prior to joining Cirdan, Taiwo worked at Northern Trust Corporations within Client Services and at AIB Bank as a Credit Analyst in Dublin. Taiwo is now looking after the operations within Cirdan. Taiwo holds a Bachelor's Degree in accounting and finance from American college Dublin.
Pinzhang holds a Masters degree in information engineering from the University of Cambridge. In his final year, Pinzhang was doing research related to limit order books in high frequency trading using particle filtering. Prior to joining Cirdan, Pinzhang completed an internship in a leading London based Quantitative Investment Manager.
Prior joining to Cirdan Capital, Annabelle worked as a Cross-Asset Sales for Natixis and Societe Generale in Geneva, London and Paris. Annabelle holds a Master Degree in International Economics at Paris Dauphine University in Paris.
