Ewan ran the 120 strong Goldman Sachs Quantitative Strategies Group in Europe as the partner in charge. This group of mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists were responsible for all of Goldman Sachs’ quantitative technology across Commodities, Currencies, Interest Rates, Credit and Equities. During his 14 year career at Goldman Sachs Ewan gained extensive experience of derivatives, trade design and risk management and a long track record of extracting value from the market using quantitative techniques. Ewan retired from Goldman Sachs in 2005.
Erich was a Managing Director and European CTO of the Goldman Sachs Quantitative Strategies Group. During his 17 year career Erich was responsible for much of the Goldman Sachs technology. Erich is a “hands on” programmer who understands the strategic and commercial drivers behind the construction of tools which help quants develop profitable strategies as efficiently and effectively as possible. Erich retired from Goldman Sachs in 2005.
Chris is the Chief Operations Officer. Prior to joining CCP Chris was an Executive Director and Chief Operations Officer at KBC Alternative Investment Management (2001 to 2005) and was one of the founding members of the firm, growing it from a launch of $50m up to $5bn. Chris was also the Chief Operations Officer of KBC Alpha Asset Management, KBC's Asian focused fund of funds and again was one of the founding members, growing it from $25m at launch to over $500m. Previously Chris was head of special projects at D. E. Shaw & Co. which he joined in 1995.
CCP has an agreement with one of the top financial academics to serve as an active research director, helping to guide the overall research direction. In addition, he is an invaluable source of innovative ideas and strategies and a key conduit to perform financial technology transfer between academia and the markets.
The Research Director's existing research programme makes him ideally suited to this activity and through sponsorship of PhD students and post-doctoral research, we have access to a wide and deep pool of highly talented individuals. He has extensive experience of working in the financial industry and a long track record of understanding the real world drivers of profitability and performance.
Our research team are experienced quants/analysts and raw mathematical or computer science talent. We leverage the knowledge and experience of the principals and the research director throughout the team.