Selim Adyel

CEO

London, England, United Kingdom12 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Founder of a globally recognized consultancy in systematic trading.
  • Developed proprietary quantitative frameworks for investment strategies.
  • Achieved consistent outperformance in challenging markets.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on quantitative finance and algorithmic trading.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quantitative ResearchData ScienceQuantitative TradingPortfolio ManagementCrypto StrategiesAlpha ResearchQuantitative AnalysisAlgorithmic TradingData Visualization

Other Skills

Machine LearningSystematic TradingTeam ManagementAI DevelopmentTransaction Cost AnalysisCivil EngineeringBanque d'investissementGeneral EngineeringM&A experienceStructured ProductsStatistical LearningBig DataKDB/QCross-Assets Derivatives TradingTrading Engines

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Experience

Atlas quant

CEO - Co-Founder

Jul 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 8 mos ยท London Area, United Kingdom

  • Building the missing layer in investment infrastructure.
  • Currently fundraising, with strong interest.
  • Speaking with a small group of VCs and strategic angels.

Blueprint finance

Lead Quantitative Researcher (via Alphubel)

Mar 2023 โ€“ Jul 2025 ยท 2 yrs 4 mos ยท San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led the design and build of the quantitative framework from scratch, leveraging Alphubel institutional IP and applied research capabilities.
  • Early contributor during Blueprint Finance early formation stage.
  • Blueprint Finance has raised more than $17m to date.
  • Independent audit feedback on the delivered framework: this does not exist in crypto.
  • Press coverage:
  • Fortune: https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/02/15/blueprint-finance-concrete-protocol-defi-credit/
  • Fortune update: https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/23/defi-blueprint-finance-raises-9-5-million-polychain-capital/
  • Backed by Tribe Capital, Hashed, Portal Ventures, SALT, Lightshift, Hypersphere, and other leading investors.
  • Learn more: https://www.concrete.xyz

Gts

Portfolio Manager (via Alphubel)

Dec 2022 โ€“ Oct 2023 ยท 10 mos ยท New York, United States

  • Designed and deployed systematic quant trading strategies realizing 28% annualised returns (net of costs), with consistent outperformance vs benchmarks.

Alphubel

Founder, principal

Mar 2020 โ€“ Present ยท 6 yrs ยท London Area, United Kingdom

  • Built Alphubel from the ground up into a globally recognised consultancy in systematic trading, quantitative research, data science, and machine learning. Delivered state of the art innovative solutions and high-impact projects for hedge funds, fintechs, and trading firms.
  • Key projects include:
  • Blueprint Finance โ€“ Designed and delivered a proprietary quantitative framework from scratch.
  • GTS โ€“ Developed and implemented quantitative trading strategies; served as external portfolio manager.
  • Outremont Technologies โ€“ Built institutional-grade crypto quant strategies framework; managed strategy deployment and team execution.
  • Dystematic / Engine AI โ€“ Led alpha research; built a cross-asset trading signal/strategy platform using explainable AI and alternative data.
  • Start-up hedge fund โ€“ Led portfolio manager selection, fund advisory, and full tech build-out.
Quantitative ResearchData ScienceMachine LearningSystematic Trading

Caxton associates

Quantitative analyst / portfolio manager

Jan 2018 โ€“ Jan 2019 ยท 1 yr ยท London Area, United Kingdom

  • Full development lifecycle and management of systematic low frequencies global macro quant trading strategies, realising a track record 10% above benchmark
  • Achieved 1st place in the team JP Morgan corporate challenge 3.5-mile race
  • Predictive analytics
  • Data visualization
  • Automation
Quantitative AnalysisPortfolio Management

Morgan stanley

2 roles

Algorithmic trading - associate

Jul 2016 โ€“ Jan 2018 ยท 1 yr 6 mos

  • Full development lifecycle of high frequency alpha trading signals: pattern recognition, research, design, simulation, backtesting, implementation in trading engines, paper trading, A/B experiments, post trading
  • Delivered marketing materials based on transaction cost analysis and data visualization
  • Improved and managed complex automated trading systems (notional traded close to $1B per day) and delivered custom trading algorithms
  • Delivered market microstructure studies for MSET and clients
  • Delivered data visualization / decision making tools: extract actionable information from large data sets
  • Built the global python platform and library from scratch
Algorithmic TradingData VisualizationTransaction Cost Analysis

Algorithmic trading - analyst

Jul 2015 โ€“ Jul 2016 ยท 1 yr

Ubs

Multi asset exotics derivatives trading

Jan 2015 โ€“ Jul 2015 ยท 6 mos ยท London Area, United Kingdom

  • Market making / risk management of structured / hybrid derivatives products (systematic strategies, vol target options, fund-linked products, structured notes, delta one, rotators, leverage certificates, asian basket options,...)
  • Daily interactions with over 30 sales persons, other traders and structurers in EMEA, Asia and US
  • Master thesis: "Structured product pricing and risks modeling"โ€‹ (monte-carlo, local volatility) in collaboration with EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute
  • Responsible for running and optimization of the desk's daily/weekly/monthly systematic strategies and pricers
  • Research and implementation/improvement of systematic strategies

Morgan stanley

Sales and trading summer analyst

Jun 2014 โ€“ Aug 2014 ยท 2 mos ยท London, United Kingdom

  • Exposure to various roles and products within fixed income, equities and commodities
  • EMEA charity race winning team (fundraising target beat by 30%)
  • Interest rates (euro gov bonds, CDS, swaps) trading
  • Credit (high yield/investment grade) trading
  • Algorithmic trading

Nomura

Equity derivatives volatility trading

Feb 2013 โ€“ Aug 2013 ยท 6 mos ยท London, United Kingdom

  • Algorithmic trading: research, data mining, development (cash equities and cross-assets), systematic calibration, implementation, backtest and live test of systematic strategies
  • Options volatility term structures and events modeling in order to generate volatility arbitrage trading ideas
  • Developed a model extracting the implied 1 day % move after earnings announcements from options term structures and comparison with 4 and 8 last quarters realized moves in order to generate volatility arbitrage trading ideas
  • Developed a dynamic calendar sorting ex-dividend dates from 4 sources in order to have the most reliable

Lcf rothschild

Mergers and acquisitions

Jul 2012 โ€“ Jan 2013 ยท 6 mos ยท Paris, รŽle-de-France, France

  • Generalist investment banking division
  • Provided company profiles, corporate presentations, strategic and financial analysis
  • Worked on financial modeling and company valuations
  • Sectors: energy, industrials, consumer, financials, materials, telecom, healthcare

Club finance centrale paris

Vice President

Jan 2012 โ€“ Jul 2012 ยท 6 mos

  • Organized conference about trading, hedge funds, private equity, interview simulations
  • Created an investment club
  • Organized round table with M&A professionals
  • Created a guide to banking for ECP students
  • Organized trading competition

Salam gaz

Blue collar work experience

Jul 2011 โ€“ Aug 2011 ยท 1 mo

Cdg capital

Summer Analyst

Jun 2011 โ€“ Jul 2011 ยท 1 mo

Forum centrale-supรฉlec

Sales and marketing

Sep 2010 โ€“ Jan 2012 ยท 1 yr 4 mos

  • Launched and finalized the merger between forum Centrale Paris and Forum supรฉlec: created the first European professional job-fair with 200 Companies, a turnover of โ‚ฌ 1 million and about 4000 visitors
  • Sales and marketing for the 2010 (first) and 2011 editions for both companies and VIP

Bouygues construction

Investment analyst advisory

Sep 2010 โ€“ Jun 2011 ยท 9 mos

  • Mission study of private finance initiative structured finance for the greater Paris project,
  • a โ‚ฌ 30 billion investment business led by the French government.

Education

CentraleSupรฉlec

Ingรฉnieur Centralien

Jan 2010 โ€“ Jan 2015

Stanford University

Machine Learning (Prof. Andrew Ng)

Jan 2018 โ€“ Jan 2018

EPFL

Master of Science MSc in Financial Engineering and Engineering Degree (ing. fin. dipl. EPF) โ€” Applied Financial Mathematics

Jan 2013 โ€“ Jan 2015

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

Jan 2010 โ€“ Present

Lycรฉe Descartes

Scientific Baccalaureate

Jan 2007 โ€“ Present

Princeton University

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Jan 2018 โ€“ Jan 2018

deeplearning.ai

Deep Learning Specialization (Prof. Andrew Ng)

Jan 2018 โ€“ Jan 2018

Rabat American School

Summer school

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