About - Robin Pollock
Proven Leadership Skills
- Proven success as a global CTO/CIO across numerous business
- Complex Systems architecture and trading and risk tools
- Agile, cross-functional development, incremental delivery
- Cybersecurity, audit, governance, regulatory and legal
- New ventures and dynamic business development
- Hiring, entrepreneurial team building, career development
- Partner level and board-level buy-in CCO, CFO, CEO
- Business analysis, strategy, new technologies and tools
- State of the art analysis with current tools and innovation
- Leadership, innovation, motivation, success (modesty)
Banking and Consultancy Experience
- London Stock Exchange - equity system proposals 1992
- Goldman Fixed Income Technology - new repo bond trading system working in London and New York 1992-3 (Accenture)
- Lloyds of London Insurance - reinsurance system proposal 1994
- Salomon Fixed Income Research - developed a suite of trading and sales tools, latterly Citigroup - Director 1994-2004
- Brevan Howard - Head of Quantitative Development, Head of Quants and Technology, then Global CTO - 2004-2016
- Own Ventures - No2it Ltd, consultancy, AWS investment 2016+
Ex CTO/Partner Brevan Howard
Ex CTO/Partner and member of the Partnership from 2007-2016. Brevan Howard grew from assets of $870m in April 2003 to become one of the largest and most successful hedge funds in Europe with AUM over $40bn by 2013 including a significant average return since inception in its flagship fund.
As Chief Technology Officer, I built a team of over 100 experts from NASA scientists to support and data specialists for all development and valuation across all assets. This covered front, middle and back-office areas and included 200+ specialist and successful trading analysis and trade finder tools. With consistent and accurate real-time P&L and RISK we adapted quickly and traded profitability during extreme events such as the 2008 financial crisis.
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Education and Timelines
- Edinburgh University – MEng Computer Science and Electronics (1st Class)
- 1992-94 Goldman Sachs - Fixed Income Technology (Accenture)
- 1994-04 Solomon Brothers - Fixed Income Research (CF21)
- 2004-16 Brevan Howard LLP – Partner and CTO (CF4)
- 2016- Present - CEO No2it Ltd and Consulting.
January 2021
I am looking for new CTO/COO roles or consultancy positions.
A new CV is available on request.
Please contact me for more details.