Nicholas Bovell
CIO, Carcharodon Capital London

Nicholas Bovell is a global macro trader & hedge fund manager with over a decade's experience trading financial markets. Nick is Chief Investment Officer at Carcharodon Capital London, which serves as FCA-regulated Investment Advisor to the Bovell Global Macro Fund. Nick holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia with majors in Corporate and Investment Finance.

Robert Lafforet
Founder, Blue Capital

Robert Lafforet and Jean Michel Allanic Created Blue Capital Partners Fund in 2020 and have been and investment professionals respectively since 2000 and 2003, both are presently directors and Fund Managers of the fund. Mr. Allanic is the designer of Blue Capital Partners Fund trading robots some of them being live for investors since 2010. From Multi-Assets trader he has specialized himself into Forex trading since 2000. Mr. Lafforet is a results-oriented Multi-assets Investment Manager and Business Technology leader with over 15 years’ experience. He has been working for 5 major global investment banks as an IT/Process consultant mostly for Trading desks in UK, US, and France.

Viktor Khedri
Co-Founder, C8 Capital AB

Fin-tech meets capital management - we offer innovative algorithmic product solutions for licensed funds management companies. The strategy is made of multiple algorithmic trading systems that operate in the Fx market over the most liquid currency pairs. Two main concepts constitute the style of the strategy: a trend-following part and a reversal one working together. The risk-reward of each operation is always positive and adaptive to recent market ranges. Over time, every single algorithm performance is monitored to maintain a minimum standard of quality.

Macro Veterani
Co-Founder, C8 Capital AB

The trend-following logic focuses on volatility breakouts and price momentum, to enter the direction of a new-born trend as early as possible while at the same time avoiding and filtering false breakout patterns. The reversal logic looks for all those patterns where the trend-following logic may mistakenly take a position while aiming for strong opposite price action: this ensures a well balanced diversification and reducing the overall growth volatility in the portfolio of algorithms. Every trade comes with a stoploss order and no negative averaging is considered. The risk-reward of each operation is always positive and adaptive to recent market ranges.

Gianluca Carolo
Managing Director, Finbou

Gianluca holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and worked several years in IT for different banks. Forex and algorithmic trading caught his interest in the year 2004, and from that moment, he started experimenting with different trading strategies and studying the market microstructure. In September 2014, he founded Finbou AG (former Prediction GmbH) to leverage the strong Swiss regulation and his knowledge of building a trading infrastructure. The first managed accounts were launched in January 2017, when the Thales strategy was offered to the public. Since the launch, the company has steadily grown in assets.
The strategy focuses on news events, in particular, central bank monetary policy decisions. The strategy seeks to capitalize mispricings in the currency market, in relation to unexpected policy shifts or reactions to expected outcomes. The entry timing is determined by scenario analysis conducted before the event. Each scenario is assigned a pre-defined risk depending on conviction levels and the historical probability of winning. The objective of the strategy is to produce positive returns under any market conditions while outperforming relevant benchmarks in risk-adjusted terms.

Aatu Kokkila
Investment Manager, Finbou

Aatu is a graduate of the Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki. He is a co-founder and partner of Finbou AG since 2016. He has been proprietary trading since 2012, running various strategies based on news events, price action, supply and demand analysis and fundamentals of the FX market. He began running the Thales strategy in its current format from 2015 onwards when he started focusing on events. The higher risk option (Thales 3x) has outperformed the SP500 and the main macro fund benchmarks by a considerable margin, especially in risk-adjusted terms.

David Kaplan
Co-founder, HELIUM

Helium uses a proprietary mathematical algorithm that performs the trades in the FX markets. The trading algorithm uses orderbook dataflow from major exchanges and uses this information on when to buy or sell. When retail traders are short, our algorithm is long and vice versa. By doing so, it trades against individuals who in 90% of cases lose money in the long term due to high emotion, greed, and over leveraging, and therefore algorithm generates profit. Retail traders make money in range markets where they can buy the low and sell the high. Once the trend starts breaking out, they start losing.

Tilen Repar
Co-founder, HELIUM

The last ten years have proven that our strategy works. With more than 1,038 % gross return during these years, we are confident that the algorithm and the strategies behind it work exactly as they are supposed to. It’s a long-term strategy as it’s based on the fact that in the long run, most retail traders lose money and the algorithm does just the opposite.

Tomasz Piwonski
Hedge Fund Manager, Solution One

• The Author of Smart Hedge® strategy
• 20 years of market experience, former New York Stock Exchange trader
• Investing his own money in Solution One Fund
• Active investor on private equity market
• Developer of high speed market data transmission solutions

Vladislav Brykin
Founder, Cypher

Vladislav is the Founder and CIO of Cypher and is responsible for managing the company’s investment process and the development and execution of proprietary trading models. Before founding Cypher, Vlad had experience in the retail trading and asset management sectors, spanning 6 years, where he designed and implemented systems and client investment strategies for brokerages and investments firms. He now focuses on portfolio optimization via the application of quantitative models and AI.

John Floyd
Portfolio Manager, Record Currency Management

John Floyd is the Portfolio Manager of Record's global macro and absolute return-centric strategies. Prior to joining Record in 2019, John was Chairman and CIO of Floyd Plus Currency Fund, for which Record has maintained the track record. Record has one of the largest independent currency specialist research teams in the world, spanning both fundamental and quantitative research to give us diverse experience and complementary insights. The fund is publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange, ensuring transparency and widely available company information. It has a strong balance sheet and is diversified by client type, objective and location.

Felipe Cancela Costa
Founder, FCC Capital

FCC Capital is a swiss based wealth management company with more than 300’000CHF of AUM, the majority of the capital coming from a Swiss institutional investor. The company has been founded in 2019 and has been operational since January 2020 after being approved by the swiss financial authorities, the FINMA. The strategy used by FCC Capital is a derivative of a discretionary global macro one with most of the trades made on the G10 Foreign Exchange, complemented by oil, gold, silver and copper on the commodity side, and the S&P500 on the equity one. The time horizon of a trade ranges from a couple of hours to several weeks if a position can be built in a trending environment.

Arno Kitts
Non Executive Director, Wake Trade Technologies

Arno has almost 30 years industry experience. Most recently as Managing Director and head of the £250 billion BlackRock UK Institutional Business, as well as Chief Executive of the £100 billion BlackRock Life business. Previously holding senior positions with Janus Henderson and JP Morgan. Wake Trade Technologies is a technology based company using combination of systematic processes to advise investors across asset classes. WakeTT is identifying a language in the financial data and evolving the number of synonyms used to describe market conditions.

Shamsher Vellani
CEO, Pisano Group

A former NCAA ice hockey player and graduate of the University of Waterloo where he studied mathematics, economics, and finance, Shamsher soon found himself developing front end office tools on Wall Street to bridge the gap between technology and finance for investment banks and hedge funds, including Barclays Capital and Goldman Sachs. A known thought leader who enjoys solving complex problems in unconventional ways, Shamsher’s experiential education in the financial markets, combined with an unflagging entrepreneurial vision, soon led to the founding of The Pisano Group.

Gordon Philips
CRO, Pisano Group

Gordon Phillips is a veteran currency trader, technical market analyst, portfolio repair consultant and developer of FX trading strategies. Gordon's scientific approach to markets and strict attention to risk management emphasizes positive expectancy and is a core building block of Pisano’s technology. The Pisano Group utilizes deep learning, data-driven artificial intelligence to develop proprietary trading algorithms and actionable analytics for the FX market. The result is cutting-edge, autonomous and 100% non-discretionary algorithms that evolve through deep, experiential learning to analyze & calculate statistical probabilities in FX market price action.

Raphael Ng
Associate Director, FX Algo Trading

Raphael started his career as a Graduate Analyst at Credit Suisse SG, before moving to StashAway to be the Product Manager of their robo-advisor wealth platform, building up a diverse range of skill-sets from managing infrastructure systems to auditing investment algorithms. Since 2013, Raphael has been researching and developing scalable FX Algorithmic Trading strategies that matched global FX liquidity pools. Leveraging on his background in Technology and Finance, Raphael aims to deliver consistent and sustainable returns to investors using Algorithmic Trading.