Asita Anche
Head of Systematic Market Making and Head of Data Science, Barclays
Asita has over 12 years’ industry experience, spending the last seven at Goldman Sachs as Managing Director, eFICC Systematic Market Making and Execution Services. She successfully built Goldman Sachs’s e-FICC Systematic Trading business and expanded it across products. She also had responsibility for key trading governance initiatives.
Prior to Goldman Sachs, Asita was Managing Director, High Frequency Trading, at Millennium Capital Partners. In this role, she built and ran the high frequency trading desk for European equities and was responsible for the supervision and monitoring of all exchange trading. Previously, she spent five years in High Frequency Trading and Research at Citadel, running several execution trading platforms across securities. She also built and deployed alpha models and strategies across various asset classes.
Leslie Baccini
Managing Director, Investor Relations, Quantopian
Leslie Baccini is the Managing Director of Investor Relations at Quantopian. Before joining Quantopian, Leslie worked for two years as the Alternative Portfolio Strategist at The Boston Company where she was responsible for communicating the firm’s hedge fund strategies to clients and prospective clients. She also spent 10 years on the equity research sales desk at Goldman Sachs in Boston and New York. Leslie received a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Tennessee. She is on the Board of Visitors at UMass Boston.
Quantopian is a Boston based company that aims to create a crowd-sourced hedge fund by letting freelance quantitative analysts develop, test, and use trading algorithms to buy and sell securities. The business attracts developers who build and test their algorithms for free and then compete in a series of contests called the ‘Quantopian Open.’ Then, investor-members in a so-called crowd-sourced hedge fund have their capital managed by the winning algorithms. Developers of these algorithms receive a royalty or commission on profits earned.
Michael Harte
Group Head of Innovation, Barclays
Michael joined Barclays in July 2014. Before joining Barclays, Michael was Group Executive of Enterprise Services and Chief Information Officer at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Group (CBA), where he was responsible for group-wide retail and institutional banking systems and operations, brokerage, wealth and asset management systems. Earlier in his career, Michael held posts of Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer, IT and Operations and Technology posts at PNC Financial Services (2001-2006, New York) and at Citigroup (1996-2001, London and New York). He was educated in New Zealand at Masey University and completed his Masters degree in Systems Management at New York University.
Ryan Kalish
Co-Founder, Allocator
Before co-founding Allocator, Ryan was part of the investment team at Stenham Asset Management, responsible for allocating in excess of $3bn to hedge funds. During this time, he completed due diligence on global macro & equity funds in Europe, North America, Asia & Australia and led investments totaling over $300m. During his tenure he also developed a range of quantitative risk analytics tools. He graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc (Hons) in Management Science specializing in Finance.
Allocator offers an online platform for institutional investors and family offices to manage the flow of fund data so they can better understand their current and prospective investments. The company has experienced strong growth over the past three years. Over 650 institutional and family office investors and over 2000 funds are using the platform.
Frances Kinloch
Head of UK & Overseas Corporate Investments, Barclays
Frances Kinloch is Head of UK & Overseas Corporate Investments and sits on the 100 Women in Hedge Funds Advisory Council. Prior to this, she was Head of Business Development within Sales & Trading within Barclays Wealth. From 2006 Frances held various positions at Scotia Capital Europe. Frances became Head of European Capital Introduction building a new business for the bank’s London entity. In 2009, she progressed into Relationship Management, where she covered varied investment banking businesses focusing on hedge funds, family offices and institutions. Prior to Scotia Capital, Frances worked in Sales Trading for Bloomberg Tradebook, covering both equities and futures brokerage. She graduated from University of Bristol, is CF30 registered, a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), and a Level 4 Chartered Investment Adviser. Frances also recently qualified as a Level 3 Advanced Personal Trainer and works as a fitness instructor. Frances is fluent in 5 languages including French and Russian.
Ryan Shea
Chief Research Officer, Amareos
Ryan has been employed in the financial sector for more than two decades. During this time he has held senior positions in several major sell-side and buy-side financial institutions in a variety of roles encompassing macroeconomic research, FX portfolio management and investment strategy. In addition to being partner and Head of Research in Amareos Ltd, Ryan is Managing Director of Black Swan Economics Consultants Ltd (BSEC), a global macro advisory company established in 2013. Prior to this he was Head of Macroeconomic Research for the Fixed Income Department of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority in the UAE. Ryan completed his BSc and MSc in Economics at Queen Mary College, University of London.
Amareos was developed by Barclays Alumni and provides a seamless integration of news analytics and financial context. Combining easy-to-interpret psychological analysis of news and social media with robust fundamental analysis, Amareos provides its members with fresh insights into what is driving global financial markets.
Peter McGleughlin
Managing Director, Barclays
Peter McGleughlin is a Managing Director in the Senior Relationship Management (SRM) team at Barclays. Based in London, he is responsible for senior level strategic and transactional dialogue with key hedge fund relationships in the UK and Europe. Prior to taking up his current role, Mr. McGleughlin was in charge of the Leveraged Capital Solutions Group, which encompassed prime services origination, capital introduction, derivatives structures for hedge funds, and relationship management.
Mr. McGleughlin joined Barclays in 2008. Between 2000 and 2008, Mr. McGleughlin held various positions at Lehman Brothers, in Fixed Income and Prime Services Sales. Before Lehman, Mr. McGleughlin worked at Greenwich NatWest, Salomon Brothers and Security Pacific Bank in a variety of sales and trading roles.
Mr. McGleughlin has a BA with Honours from Brown University.
