Leda Braga
CEO, Systematica Investments
Leda acts as CEO of Systematica Investments, a Jersey based institutional hedge fund manager with around $8.2 billion in assets under management. Systematica was formed in January 2015 as a spin-off of BlueCrest Capital, where Leda was President and Head of Systematic Trading for 14 years since 2001. Prior to BlueCrest Leda was part of Cygnifi Derivatives Services (a J.P. Morgan spin-off). At Cygnifi she was part of the management team and was head of its Valuation Service. Prior to Cygnifi, Leda spent nearly seven years at J.P. Morgan as a Quantitative Analyst in the derivatives research team. Her past experience includes modelling of interest rate exotics, FX/interest rate hybrid instruments and equity derivatives. She holds a PhD in Engineering from Imperial College London, where she worked as a lecturer and led research projects for over three years prior to joining J.P. Morgan. In addition Leda has served as an advisor to the board of the pension fund of the CERN in Geneva and she is currently on the advisory board of the London School of Economics' Systemic Risk Centre.
Catherine Keyes-Guichard
100 Women in Finance
Catherine, a French/American, believes in finance and philanthropy. She is based in Paris and has worked in the financial markets for over 31 years. Among other things, she has helped several systematic, quantitative hedge funds expand internationally, assisted the French treasury to set-up stock exchanges in emerging countries, manicured MATIF,s image in English, and been an equity salesperson. Catherine was one of the founders of 100 Women in Finance (previously 100 Women in Hedge Funds) in Paris and majored in corporate finance during her green MBA at The University of Bristol, England. Previously to being in the hedge fund space, she did research and taught on the cultural aspects of ethics in finance, and endeavors to put into action what she theorizes. She is presently in transition and open to new horizons.
