Experience

Trading Labs
• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Head of Development

  • Sep 2023 - Present


Man Group

• United Kingdom
• Investment Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Managing Director, CTO of Trading Platform Technology

  • Jul 2018 - Jun 2023

  Promoted to CTO overseeing Platform Technology in July 2018, in recognition of successes in navigating direction of the long-term technological strategy, scaling and driving growth of both technology roadmap and platform architecture.• Led multi-disciplinary teams of up to 160 across multiple geographic locations, effectively delegating tasks and monitoring performance while serving as a mentor and advisor on best practices and growing of the technology stack.• Ownership of major technological operational areas such as P&L, pricing, regulatory reporting, compliance, risk management, OMS and settlements while harnessing business intelligence and data findings to influence decisions.• Enabled Man to double AUM at the same time as reducing operational headcount. Post-trade processing was scaled to over $8 trillion notional per annum.• Designed and oversaw development of a new Central OMS, which will consolidate front-office position keeping and order management across the firm.• Used a nearshoring partner to move ~30% of development resources to lower cost locations. Show less

• Chief Architect

  • Nov 2014 - Jul 2018

  Promoted to Group Chief Architect, tasked with extending the platform beyond traditional trading activities. • Architected and managed the work required to ensure Man was compliant with MiFID 2 for the 3rd Jan 2018 deadline. This included developing a repository for all market facing interaction, primarily driven by FIX messaging.• Migrated the fund-of-funds business to the platform, allowing outsourcing of the middle office for this area.• Extended the platform to cover all aspects of distribution including investor sub-registers, flow management, rebates and commissions.• Migrated a newly acquired 25bn quant equity manager onto the platform, significantly reducing operational costs. Show less



GLG Partners

• Italy
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Trading and Operations Platform Architect

  • 2005 - Nov 2014

  Led design, development and continuous optimisation of an integrated investment management platform, building and sustaining innovative solutions while working with stakeholders and architects to translate vision into strategic plans. • Built the Group-wide investment management platform that has been regarded as one of the best in the asset management industry, integrating >10 acquired companies onto the platform with >20 systems decommissioned which resulted in significant technology and operational cost savings, reduced resources and overall delays. • Facilitated the entire project management lifecycle spanning across requirements gathering, build, testing, user onboarding and ongoing BAU to implement improvements to platform. • Platform covered all asset classes: equities, fixed income, convertibles, FX and commodities, with features such as trade capture, pre/post-trade compliance checking, intraday risk/pricing, VaR, capital flow management, reconciliation of stock lending and financing charges. • Post acquisition of GLG by Man, architected the migration of the $25 billion trend following business onto the GLG platform. Show less


Barclays Capital
• United Kingdom
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Application Developer

  • Mar 2004 - Mar 2005

AMP Bank Limited
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Development Team Lead

  • 1999 - 2004

Pictdata Productions Ltd
• New Zealand
• Developer

  • 1997 - 1999