About

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Since 2016 I have taken time off after 25 years to focus on my family and new ventures. In October 2020 and after COVID-19 and UK and Global lockdowns I feel now is the best time in many years to look for new opportunities. I am actively looking for new senior CTO roles or consultancy positions 

With a proven track record I would hope to expedite Digital transformation and take or merge parts of the traditional Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Digital Officer (CDO) and some aspects of the Chief Operating Officer (COO) as required by your enterprise vision and strategy in these unprecedented times.

Ex CTO/Partner Brevan Howard, member of the LLP Partnership from 2007-2016. The Hedge Fund Brevan Howard grew quickly from 2002 to over $40bn in assets and specialised in Macro FX and Interest rate and derivatives trading.  

About - I joined in 2004 as Head of Quantitative development to expedite quant based trading spreadsheets using new tools bringing together the technology and the Quantitative analyst groups. CTO from 2011 onwards combing all previous Head of Roles following the technology and trading strategy success over the 2008-09 financial crisis and a successful move to Geneva. 

    Having hired and worked with mathematical, development, infrastructure, networks and trading floor specialist I believe people are always the problem and solution so focused on simplicity and re-usability of solutions. Using a building block or Lego design and rapid, flexible more agile approach, cross-functional small teams, simplicity, reusability, rapid development and delivery and accuracy.

 Responsible for 100 people from Quants to infrastructure in front middle & back office for all development and production including all trading tools, valuation, risk, reporting, networks and infrastructure. Designed and built the architecture and hired the teams 6 offices and 10 datacentres in Geneva, New York, Hong Kong, Israel, Jersey and London.

1. London Stock Exchange - equity trading system proposals 1992
2. Goldman Fixed Income Technology - new REPO system working with technology based on the London trade floor York 1992-3
3. Lloyds of London Insurance - new reinsurance system 1994
4. Salomon Fixed Income Research - developed and suite of trading and sales tools, latterly Citigroup - Director 1994-2004

• 1979-86 Ayr Academy Alloway – 8 O-Grades, 5 Highers, 3 Sixth Year Studies (all A Grades)
• 1986-91 Edinburgh University – MEng Computer Science and Electronics (1st Class)
• 1992-94 Goldman LSE Consultant – London and New York 
• 1994-04 Solomon Brothers Ltd – Director, Fixed Income Research, London
• 2004-16 Brevan Howard LLP – Partner and CTO, London
• 2016-Present - family and new initiatives with consulting

1. Proven success as a global CTO across numerous business areas
2. Complex Systems architecture and trading tools over 25 years
3. Agile, cross functional development teams, incremental delivery
4. Cybersecurity, audit, governance, regulatory and legal
5. New ventures and dynamic business development
6. Hiring, entrepreneurial team building, process, procedures, career development, procurement, remuneration
7. Partner level and board level buy-in CCO, CFO, CEO
8. Resilience, cost cutting, new technologies and tools
9. State of the art analysis with current tools and innovation