Richard Williams

Experience

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  Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein

  Mar 1998 - Jul 1999

  Quantitative Analyst

  Project work for front office, based on the trading floor with the FX Options desk, principally automatic pricing of first generation exotic options.

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  Citi

  Jul 1999 - Nov 2003

  Vice President

  Responsible for the continuing research and development of several order flow and price based trading models used for the proprietary trading of FX.

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  Deutsche Bank

  Nov 2003 - Apr 2005

  Director

  Founded a systematic proprietary FX group. This involved, designing and implementing a systematic trading infrastructure. Origination of trading models within liquid FX operating on the sub 1 minute out to several days horizons.

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  KBC AIM

  Aug 2005 - Jul 2006

  Portfolio Manager

  Created and managed the KBC Stat FX Fund. Including specifying appropriate operational processes as well as strategy research and trade execution.

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  Cantab Capital Partners LLP

  Sept 2006 - Apr 2010

  Senior Scientist

  Joined CCP in it's start up phase as the firms first experienced trader and portfolio manager. Setting up the initial portfolio, designing the firms trade identification and execution systems and shaping the investment process.Execution was via both manual trading and algorithmic order placement. The assets traded have been liquid futures, FX and FX options.

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  Aspect Capital

  Aug 2010 - Jan 2013

  Director of Research

  Appointed Director of research, the role was focused on making evolutionary changes to Aspect's substantial existing programme (at the time AUM over $6bn deployed on futures and FX). The innovations I introduced during my tenure at Aspect were successful in materially improving fund returns.

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  Millennium Capital Partners

  Oct 2013 - Jul 2017

  Portfolio manager
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  Citadel LLC

  Jul 2017 - Jul 2021

  Senior Quant
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  None

  Jul 2021 - Nov 2022

  Non Compete period
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  Grantabridge Research Limited

  Nov 2022 - now

  Founder