Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Mar 2014 – Jan 2023 · 8 yrs 10 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Head of EMEA Trading Risk Management reporting to European Head of Fixed Income
• Responsible for market risks coming from FXEM, Rates, Credit, SPG and Commodities
• Lead for global liquidity risk management across funding, CLS etc
• Situation crisis management around key geopolitical and idiosyncratic events

May 2017 – Nov 2023 · 6 yrs 6 mos

• One of the angel investors

Aug 2013 – Mar 2014 · 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Market maker for grains & oilseeds in swaps, vanilla and exotic options
• Trading exotic options with clients (Accumulators, Extendibles & Path Dependent Options)

Jan 2013 – Present · 13 yrs 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Jun 2009 – Jul 2013 · 4 yrs 1 mo · London Area, United Kingdom

• Agriculture Desk, Grains and Options Trading
• Developed in house models for fundamental supply and demand analysis for grains
• Primary Focus: Corn, Ethanol, Soybean, Wheat. Secondary Focus: BeanOil, SoybeanMeal
• Trading delta and kappa exposure for agricultural products in CME, Liffe, BMD, NYMEX
• Market maker for Corn, Bean Complex, Wheat, Sugar, Cotton, Palm Oil
• Publication of weekly trading commentary & desk views on the market for clients
• Trading exotic options with clients (Accumulators, Extendibles & Path Dependent Options)
• Reporting to senior management for Agriculture Desk Pnl, Risk and Resource Requirements
• Outlining the requirements for IT department for trading and pricing systems
• Regular interaction with Controllers, Risk Management and Settlements for desk activity
• Commodities & Hybrid Exotic Options Structuring & Trading
• Structuring of commodities correlation products (energy/metals/agriculture/freight)
• Managing portfolio restructuring for key commodities clients (airlines / freight lines)
• Making market (bid/offer) for structured notes & OTC options on Bloomberg and Reuters
• Primary issuance & secondary trading of MS and third party structured notes and options
• Commodities exotic options trade idea generation and pricing for wealth management clients
• Development of custom commodities indices for investors and launch via fundlogic platform
• Hedging commodity and FX exposure via futures, swaps and options

Apr 2009 – Apr 2011 · 2 yrs · London Area, United Kingdom

• Co-founded a strategy blog with IIM graduates as writers
• More than 300 articles published across various domains (strategy, marketing, analysis)
• Organised a team of 20 writers across various batches
• Site received more than 20k page views per month and 1000 feed subscribers

Apr 2008 – Jun 2008 · 2 mos · London and New York

• Proxy analysis tool developed to analyse commodities and suggest appropriate hedges based on backtesting. Used for multiple clients and research reports.
• Client order flow data analysis for the Delta-One Equities Team. Enabled sales to identify and focus on high volume clients.

Jun 2006 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr · New York and New Delhi

• Business strategy and development for an internet marketplace for freelancers (LimeExchange). Managed a team of 4
• Development in Ruby and C++ for WebDAV protocol. Worked in a team of 8
• Participated in recruitment activities & conducted technical interviews on behalf of the company

May 2005 – Jul 2005 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Software development in C++, Java, Perl and PHP
• Implementation of nearest neighbor search algorithm for multimedia search. Used for classifying search images.
• Implemented java plug-in for metadata collection used for tagging images for use in training sets
• Worked in a team of 3

May 2004 – Jul 2004 · 2 mos · India

• Programming in C++ / Java
• Panorama creation software using a pan-tilt camera
• Worked in a team of 4 developers
• Understanding of computer vision concepts