Team

Over the past three decades, Nobel has proven to be an entrepreneurial executive with a demonstrated history of building and managing investment and trading businesses, leveraging the power of data science and technology. He spent twelve years at Two Sigma where he led the growth of the company across various dimensions, most notably scaling the investment management business as CEO of Two Sigma Advisers, LP, which encompasses Two Sigma’s asset management division that provides solutions for institutional investors. Under his leadership the company’s assets grew from $3.7B in 2007 to $60B in 2019.

Prior to Two Sigma, Nobel worked at various investment banks, including NatWest Markets, ABN Amro and Citigroup in Equity Research and Global Equities. Nobel began his career with Raymond James, where he established the firm’s first Asian office in India. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, as a Joseph Wharton Scholar, with a bachelor’s degree in international finance.

Nobel is a non-executive director on the board of Pictet Asset Management. Nobel is a guest lecturer at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and also serves on the Executive Board of the Undergraduate Wharton School. Nobel is an avid skier and lives in New York with his wife and two children.

Deepak’s career as a trader and risk manager spans more than twenty years across hedge funds, investment banks and market making firms. He is the former founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Argentière Capital, a volatility-focused multi-strategy hedge fund that he established in 2013. Argentière was headquartered in Zug, Switzerland with peak assets in excess of $2.5bn.

Prior to founding Argentière, Deepak spent ten years at JPMorgan Chase where he was Global Head of Equity Proprietary Trading, managing a large team of traders and overseeing risk across the business. Prior to leading the global proprietary trading team, Deepak was Head of Derivative Trading Strategies for JPMorgan and was responsible for risk management for the firm’s European Proprietary Trading Group.

Deepak began his career in equity derivatives, holding positions as a senior equity derivatives trader at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in London and as an equity derivatives market maker at Archelon. He graduated from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia with a B.S. in Finance.

Mike joins Numeus after a career spanning twenty years at G-Research, one of the most successful global Quant Hedge Funds. During that time Mike was responsible for building, managing and leading research teams, with a particular focus on high-frequency statistical arbitrage. He also has a broad experience of other major strands of Quantitative Research against a wide variety of asset classes. Mike became a Partner at G-Research in 2014.

Before Finance Mike studied Physics at Imperial College London with a research focus in Computational Physics and self-organized criticality.

Owain brings twenty years of deep experience in both traditional high frequency trading and the application of HFT research and technology to crypto.

In 2019, he co-founded Mercury Trading, a crypto HFT firm that is one of the larger providers of centralised liquidity. Prior to this, he was head of Electronic Market Making technology for JP Morgan, and built and ran the highly successful Automated Market Making technology group at Morgan Stanley. Owain was one of the first programmers on what was, and remains, the dominant listed options market maker at Citadel Investment Group.

Owain obtained his BA / MA from the University of Cambridge, England in Theoretical Computer Science. He enjoys a variety of amateur sports including skeleton, rallying and tennis.

Mitch brings over twenty years of deep expertise across hedge funds, data and technology.

Most recently at Millennium, Mitch was COO of the technology and data platform that supported quantitative portfolio managers. He was previously at Two Sigma Investments for over a decade, serving as global head of business strategy, global head of investor relations, and COO of the systematic alternative data research team. Mitch started his career in traditional finance, focused on corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions with FleetBoston Financial, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley.

Mitch earned his BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and is a CFA charterholder.

After running his first Bitcoin node in school in 2013, Cyrill became fascinated with the power of blockchain and, shortly thereafter, discovered a pre-sale for a new cryptocurrency called Ethereum.

After his first transaction on Ethereum, Cyrill decided to embrace this technology. As a serial entrepreneur in the space, he is now building the bridge between traditional finance and Web3.0, which has an important role in creating a government-independent, robust new financial system and transaction layer.

He is a trained systems engineer who started his career in the financial services industry at Swiss Re and Bank Vontobel before turning crypto enthusiast almost a decade ago.

To balance his days in Web3.0, Cyrill enjoys the occasional rush of adrenaline by skydiving, snowboarding, and participating in a variety of other sports.

Ahmad was an early adopter of blockchain technology, having witnessed its transformative potential and having discovered Ethereum whilst at university.

He was one of the original investors and traders in decentralised financial instruments and protocols and has been deeply involved in the digital asset space for over seven years as a Trader, Venture Partner and Technical Advisor to a number of crypto-funds and protocols.

Ahmad is a firm believer in the power of composable programmatic finance and is committed to bridging traditional systems to this new frontier.

When away from his desk, Ahmad enjoys carpentry and can often be found in the woodshop.

Karsten began his professional career in consulting, working at McKinsey & Company for three years before founding quantitative hedge fund Amplitude Capital in 2004, a firm he ran in London and Switzerland for fifteen years. Amplitude developed globally diversified, fully systematic short-term trading programs, and later expanded into the medium-term quantitative equity fields. The firm managed $2bn of institutional assets and employed 32 professionals at peak.

More recently, Karsten has become an active angel investor and is now employing his extensive knowledge of quantitative investing in crypto markets at Numeus.

Originally from Rostock, Germany, Karsten studied Business at both HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and at the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney.