People

People

Qi is the result of extensive collaboration between experienced macro investors, leading academics and best-in-class data engineers.

We have office locations and teams in London, New York, Boston, Singapore and Cyprus.

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Co-founder & CEO

Mahmood Noorani

Mahmood is an experienced macro investor with a background as a rates derivatives trader, macro proprietary trader and macro hedge fund Portfolio Manager.
He started researching quantitative investment processes several years ago and founded QI in 2014. His research into quantitative methods was motivated by a conviction that traditional macro investment processes no longer worked as they had previously, that market structure was changing and that a new approach was needed to understand financial market dynamics.
Mahmood started his career at Morgan Stanley and has since worked for firms including UBS, Credit Suisse, BlueCrest Capital and Citi Capital Advisors Global Macro Fund. He holds a B.SC and M.Sc in Economics from the LSE.

Co-founder & Board Member

Krishnan Sadasivam

Krish is co-founder of Quant Insight and a current Board Director.
He brings broad investor skills from twenty years of market experience as a portfolio manager across both equity and macro based strategies at Fidelity, Brevan Howard and Millennium. He is also an entrepreneur, founding KDA equity hedge fund alongside TCI.
Krish holds a BA in Computer Science from Cambridge University and an MBA from Wharton.

Academic Advisor

Professor Ryan Prescott-Adams

Previously Ryan taught Machine Learning at Harvard.
He successfully exited his AI startup to Twitter in 2015 and has worked for Google Brain.
Currently Ryan runs the Lab for Intelligent Probabilistic Systems at Princeton and sits on our Academic Advisory board.

Academic Advisor

Professor Michael Hobson

Michael is Professor of Astrophysics in the Cavendish Astrophysics Group of the Dept of Physics at the University of Cambridge. He has published over 400 research papers and 8 textbooks. His IP has been used at the European Space Agency to get the Juno probe to Jupiter and in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to discover the Higgs-Boson (or “God particle”). Applied astrophysics is concerned with the extraction of signal from large, noisy, opaque datasets. This expertise is ideally suited to financial markets, and Michael has extensive experience in applying machine learning and inference techniques to financial market data. Michael is Qi’s key academic partner and has authored the Qi White Paper on methodology.

COO

Peter Tran

Peter was an early stage investor In Qi and joined in September 2016 and is our current COO.
A 25-year career in banking, relating to derivatives trading and broking, starting his career at Merrill Lynch in 1987 and then going onto Tullett & Tokyo, and BGC partners. In his roles, he had the responsibility of building new businesses and desks, situated in London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore, covering many derivatives markets. Since retiring from the City in 2014 , he has pursued his interest to be involved with investing his own money in everything from construction projects through to early-stage tech/business start-ups.

Business Development

Ernest Van Vredenburch

Ernest joined QI in December 2016 and is responsible for the distribution of our products.
His career started in banking at Mees-Pierson ABN Amro in 1994. He moved to Credit Suisse in 1998. He initially ran Credit Suisse’s single dealer ‘E’ trading platform, moving to the Hedge Fund sales team in 2003, where he covered some of the largest Macro Hedge Funds on Interest Rate Derivatives. In 2007 Ernest was made Head of the European Rates Sales Team. His responsibility expanded to include the Bank Solutions Team in 2010. In 2013 he became head of Macro Sales (combining FX, Rates, and Commodities) across EMEA.
Ernest was also Head of the Fixed Income campus recruitment effort, was a key member of the Human Capital Committee, Co-Leader of the “one Bank” initiative, and a member of Credit Suisse’s Culture Committee.

Managing Director; Head of Analytics

Huw Roberts

After graduating with a BSc in Economics from University College of Wales Swansea & an MSc in Economics & Finance from Loughborough University of Technology,
Huw joined NatWest Markets initially as an economist. From there he transferred to U.K. & European rates strategy before moving to the bond sales desk. His early client facing roles were in gilt sales & then U.K. real money sales in G10 government bonds. He continued that role at Merrill Lynch before switching to Credit Suisse where he ended his career as a senior Director covering both U.K. asset managers & Hedge Funds on macro products.
Huw currently heads our Analytics division.

Equity Specialist

Amit Khanna

Amit joined QI in March 2017.
Previous he worked at Brevan Howard for 10 years, where he was the lead global equity strategist harnessing a cross-asset framework to identify opportunistic and theme-based long/short equity trade ideas for the senior PMs across the firm. Amit began his career on the fundamental microeconomic side, starting in M&A at Lazard and then as a sell-side equity research analyst at HSBC.
He is a CFA charter-holder and has a B.Sc in Economics from the LSE.

Head of Quant insight Americas

Colin Stewart

Colin spent 22 years in the equity divisions of Goldman Sachs, Nomura and CLSA during which he was responsible for running businesses both in New York and Tokyo. He spent subsequent years raising capital and developing commercial traction for emerging technology innovators in the fintech., investech, blockchain, cyber security and healthcare industries. He is now Head of Americas for Qi.

Head of Product Development

Omar Belmonte

Joined Quant Insight in 2016, he is now responsible for managing the delivery and development of products and UI.
Prior to Quant insight, He spent 3 years at Citi within the Global FX team covering Sales and Options Trading.
Omar graduated from the University of Southampton in 2012 with a degree in Economics.

Data Engineer

Aida Pendás Fernández

Experienced and skilled computer engineer, currently developing dashboards analyzing financial data based on Qi algorithms, using QI API. Focus includes customized macro risk, and portfolio sensitivity solutions for clients.
Customer support role includes guiding users to implement QI API and solve potential issues with their code.

Senior Partner - Global Marketing Lead

Stephen Baldwin

Stephen has an experienced background in financial markets and as an entrepreneur in the service and start-up sectors.
His career originated as a team lead for Tullett & Tokyo Brokers in the rates derivatives market in London and Tokyo, followed by years in senior sales, marketing and business development in B2C.
Stephen is one of the founding members of Quant Insight and continues to build the institutional and retail business in Europe and Asia.

Co-founder & CEO

Mahmood Noorani

Co-founder & Board Member

Krishnan Sadasivam

Academic Advisor

Professor Ryan Prescott-Adams

Academic Advisor

Professor Michael Hobson

COO

Peter Tran

Business Development

Ernest Van Vredenburch

Managing Director; Head of Analytics

Huw Roberts

Equity Specialist

Amit Khanna

Head of Quant insight Americas

Colin Stewart

Head of Product Development

Omar Belmonte

Data Engineer

Aida Pendás Fernández

Senior Partner - Global Marketing Lead

Stephen Baldwin