Peter Kent is a Managing Partner at Eladian Partners.
Peter Kent is a Founder and Managing Partner at Eladian Partners, a global multi-asset class trading firm built on cutting edge technology combined with sophisticated quantitative trading strategies.
Peter Kent has over 35 years of experience in financial services and has held a variety of executive positions in securities firms and investment banks covering the retail, institutional, and discount sectors. He has participated in excess of 30 transactions as a principal, and in over 250 deals as an intermediary.
As Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Automated Trading Desk, Peter led its sale to Citigroup in 2007. At Citigroup, he was Global Head of Broker-Dealer Execution Services and Sales where he was responsible for the retail execution business across multiple asset classes.
Peter received his Bachelor of Science in Management Science and earned an MBA in Finance and Accounting, both from the University of California - Berkeley.
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Steve Swanson is a Managing Partner at Eladian Partners.
Steve Swanson is a Founder and Managing Partner at Eladian Partners, a global multi-asset class trading firm built on cutting edge technology combined with sophisticated quantitative trading strategies.
Prior to Eladian Partners, Steve founded Automated Trading Desk, a pioneering electronic trading firm based in South Carolina. As President and CEO, Steve grew the business from pure proprietary trading to creating a fully automated market maker servicing the broker-dealer community. After its acquisition by Citigroup in 2007, Steve became responsible for global equity and option electronic trading operations.
Steve is currently on the board of the Bank of South Carolina and Vice Chairman of the College of Charleston Foundation. Steve has previously served as Chairman of the Nasdaq Quality of Markets Committee and is a former board member for BATS Global Markets.
Steve received his Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from the College of Charleston.
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Jennifer Hunter is a Partner and Chief Financial Officer at Eladian Partners.
Jennifer Hunter joined Eladian Partners in 2011 and has over ten years of experience in the financial industry.
As Eladian Partner's Chief Financial Officer, Jennifer is responsible for all accounting, tax, financial reporting and operational issues within the firm, including middle-office operations, risk management and treasury.
Prior to joining Eladian Partners, Jennifer was Controller for Citigroup's global electronic trading division (including ATD, Citi's option market maker, and algorithmic trading groups) where she was responsible for financial reporting, business analytics and product control.
Jennifer received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Virginia Tech and a Master of Science in Accounting from the College of Charleston.
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Matt Simsic is a Partner and Head Trader at Eladian Partners.
As Head Trader he is responsible for the firms trading activities across all asset classes and geographies, and is a member of the firm's management team.
Matt has over 15 years of experience as a trader in a variety of countries and asset classes. The majority of his experience has been in the design, development, and implementation of quantitative and technology-driven trading strategies in global equities and futures markets.
Previously, Matt held senior trading and leadership positions at DRW Trading, Millennium Partners, Bear Stearns and Hull Trading.
Matt earned his Bachelor of Science from Indiana University and an MBA from New York University.
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Shane Swanson is a Partner and General Counsel at Eladian Partners.
As General Counsel, Shane is responsible for overseeing all legal and regulatory aspects of Eladian's businesses.
Prior to Eladian Partners, Shane was General Counsel and Director of Compliance at Automated Trading Desk (ATD). In this role, Shane was responsible for helping ATD develop its business from pure proprietary trading, to becoming a fully automated market maker. Shane is very involved with industry committees and market structure analysis, also serving as Vice Chairman of the SIFMA Markets and Trading Committee. After ATD's acquisition by Citigroup in 2007, Shane became the business head at Citi's Lava Trading subsidiary.
Shane graduated from the University of South Carolina, magna cum laude, with Baccaularues Artium et Scientiae degree, and from the University of South Carolina School of Law, cum laude, with a juris doctor. Prior to ATD, Shane worked with Grimball & Cabaniss, LLC and Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee, P.A.
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We are looking for new team members
We have a core belief that the strength of our firm is founded in the strength of our team. We are looking for intelligent and inquisitive strategic thinkers who are driven to succeed. Our teams work very closely together to tackle interesting and complex problems with an insightful and elegant approach.
If you are interested in applying or finding out more about our Quantitative Research, Trading, or Technology Teams, please
submit your resume here.
For all other inquiries, contact us at inquiries@eladian.com.
Open Positions
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Database Developer/Administrator
Reports To:
Team Leader
Location:
New York, NY
Responsibilities:
- Assist with selection of proper database technologies for company, and install and configure the databases
- Work closely with developers on schema and stored procedure development
- Implement occasional scripts to generate reports or as tools for ad-hoc queries
Required Experience/Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field or equivalent work experience. Master's degree is preferred
- Expert with SQL database technologies from a development, administration, and operations point of view, preferably MySQL
- Experience with Python scripting
- Experience with C++ is desired, but not required
- High attention to detail
- Driven to deliver only quality code
- Great communication skills
- For the right solution, open to any technology
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Office Manager
Reports To:
Director of Communications
Location:
New York, NY
Responsibilities:
This position is responsible for the coordination and overall execution of the office environment policies and procedures. Responsibilities include:
- Provide administrative support for the New York office
- Perform receptionist, general clerical, and project related tasks. These tasks include assisting visitors, answering telephones, and resolving various administrative inquiries and problems
- Responsible for the implementation and ongoing maintenance of all office policies and procedures
- Manage, order and stock supplies within the budget guidelines of the organization
- Coordinating with employees for activities related to operational support of the office
- Scheduling and coordinating meetings, events, travel, and other similar tasks
- Coordinating and maintaining records for New York office space, building communications, and other office operations
- Liaising with suppliers, clients, and other staff
- Conducting research, operating, and troubleshooting new office technologies
Required Experience/Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Knowledge of office processes, practices, and computer software applications
- Expertise with MS Office programs (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, etc.)
- The ability to quickly and successfully resolve problems by determining appropriate courses of action
- Ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels of the organization
- Must display a high degree of emotional maturity while keeping difficult situations in proper prospective
- Acts with discretion when trusted with sensitive and confidential information
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Initiative and ability to operate independently
- Ability to lift 20 pounds
- Adaptable and versatile individual; detail oriented
- Effective listening and verbal communication skills
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Senior Compliance Officer
Reports To:
General Counsel
Location:
London, UK
Responsibilities:
- Ensure that Eladian operates in compliance with FSA and other applicable laws and regulations
- Interpretation and implementation of applicable FSA and other relevant laws regulations
- Assist in identifying compliance or supervisory deficiencies and implement corrective actions
- Review and supervise the firm's daily transactions
- Represent the firm in contacts with the FSA and other regulators, including managing regulatory examinations and inquiries
- Assist in the investigation of employee conduct with regard to violations of firm policy and procedures and regulatory requirements
- Perform routine and ad hoc trade surveillance
- Prepare and maintain current regulatory filings
- Identify, develop, organize, and deliver necessary compliance related training, and reinforce compliance-related communications
- Maintain and update Policies and Procedures, and keep abreast of applicable existing, new and pending laws and regulations
- Maintain a strong working relationship with the other Eladian staff, particularly development
- Coordinate with central compliance department on shared functions (e.g., licensing & appointment, HR overlap)
- Work closely with the Trading, Technology, Operations and Finance departments to assist with the implementation of compliance programs
Required Experience/Skills:
Candidates must have a broad knowledge of regulated entities and compliance, regulated business environments and key regulatory issues especially as they relate to proprietary trading. This knowledge will include a demonstrated and strong track record of success working directly with key stakeholders and individuals residing within the various regulatory bodies and agencies. The candidate must also have a balance of both strong technical skills, with particular emphasis on knowledge and practical application of securities laws, regulations and procedures. The candidate should be a "decision maker" in his/her
current organization and not purely a "technician".
More specific qualifications include the following:
- Bachelor's degree is required. An advanced degree such as JD or MBA is a plus
- Extensive experience working in a financial services organization that deals with principal/proprietary trading
- Strong working knowledge of the securities industry and applicable rules and regulations within the current regulatory environment
- The ability to identify and communicate "tough issues" or conflict situations while using well-developed influencing skills to work effectively across multiple teams and establish a cooperative environment
- The ability to quickly identify gaps or risk exposures in a compliance system and to develop and implement strong checks-and-balances
- Understands business issues and makes sound business judgments; implements and follows through on strategies to deliver results in a timely fashion
- Results orientation with a track record of success
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate compliance and regulatory changes into the implications for Eladian’s business process and control environment
- Excellent inter-personal relationship skills
- Excellent project management skills
- Able to effectively balance competing interests; able to be viewed as a resource by the organization and act as a partner to the various constituencies
- Must excel at problem resolution, dealing directly and constructively with conflict and differences of opinion
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Software Developer
Reports To:
Team Leader
Location:
London, UK
Responsibilities:
Short-Term Job Responsibilities (first 3 months):
- Gain familiarity with team and processes
- Research and implement a trading model on a platform
- Implement decision engines for placing orders in the market
- Contribute to system architecture decisions and the selection of development and research tools
Long-Term Job Responsibilities:
- Software development, optimization and performance testing in an ultra high frequency trading environment
- Implement and optimize trading platform working collaboratively with the quantitative analyst and traders
- Contribute to system architecture decisions and the selection of development and research tools
Required Experience/Skills:
Required Experience/Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field or equivalent work experience. Master's degree is preferred
- Three or more years of experience programming in C++
- Three years working in a Linux environment
- At least two years experience with a scripting language(Python, Perl, Ruby, etc). Python preferred
- Experience measuring and optimizing software algorithms
Desired Skills:
- Assembly language experience
- BOOST library experience
- Experience optimizing the Linux Kernel
- Experience measuring network latency
- Familiarity with high frequency trading
- Strategic thinker/Really enjoys figuring out how software and hardware work
- Detail-oriented
- Driven to deliver only quality code
- For the right solution, open to any technology
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Strategy Developer
Reports To:
Team Leader
Location:
London, UK
Responsibilities:
Short-Term Job Responsibilities (first 3 months):
- Gain familiarity with the team and processes
- Implement ultra-high frequency trading strategies in C++
Long-Term Job Responsibilities:
- Design and implement ultra-high frequency trading strategies in C++ in collaboration with traders and quantitative researchers
- Verification of strategy behavior in a back-testing environment
- Work closely with traders in the deployment and monitoring of strategies
- Create post-trade analysis tools for measuring strategy performance
- Continue to contribute to system architecture decisions and the selection of development tools
Required Experience/Skills:
Required Experience/Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience in software development
- Extensive experience programming in C++ or Java
- Significant experience working in a Linux environment
- Significant experience with a scripting language (Python, Perl, Ruby, etc). Python preferred
- Solid understanding of multi-threaded and network programming
- Experience developing software for high performance and low latency computing environments
- Experience working with large time series datasets
Desired Skills:
- BOOST library experience
- Experience implementing high frequency trading strategies or building a high frequency trading platform
- Strategic thinker/Really enjoys figuring out how software and hardware work
- Cool under pressure
- Detail-oriented
- Driven to deliver only quality code
- For the right solution, open to any technology
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Strategy Developer
Reports To:
Team Leader
Location:
New York, NY
Responsibilities:
Short-Term Job Responsibilities (first 3 months):
- Gain familiarity with the team and processes
- Implement ultra-high frequency trading strategies in C++
Long-Term Job Responsibilities:
- Design and implement ultra-high frequency trading strategies in C++ in collaboration with traders and quantitative researchers
- Verification of strategy behavior in a back-testing environment
- Work closely with traders in the deployment and monitoring of strategies
- Create post-trade analysis tools for measuring strategy performance
- Continue to contribute to system architecture decisions and the selection of development tools
Required Experience/Skills:
Required Experience/Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience in software development
- Three or more years of experience programming in C++ or Java
- Three years working in a Linux environment
- At least two years experience with a scripting language (Python, Perl, Ruby, etc). Python preferred
- Solid understanding of multi-threaded and network programming
- Experience developing software for high performance and low latency computing environments
- Experience working with large time series datasets
Desired Skills:
- BOOST library experience
- Experience implementing high frequency trading strategies or building a high frequency trading platform
- Strategic thinker/Really enjoys figuring out how software and hardware work
- Cool under pressure
- Detail-oriented
- Driven to deliver only quality code
- For the right solution, open to any technology
Behavioral Characteristics:
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Tactical Operations Engineer
Reports To:
Head Trader
Location:
New York, NY
Responsibilities:
This role is technical in nature, as candidates are expected to be able to create scripts, parse logs, and write code to optimize our trading systems.
- Troubleshoot issues with outside technical support
- Work with operations and traders when breaks occur
- Configure API, help with connectivity to outside venues
- Identify/alert when firm is approaching message rate limits
- Help Networking team test connectivity
- Set up test environments for Quantitative Research team to use for simulation
- Provide ad hoc data for traders. This would include intra-day trade, order, and messaging data
- Reconcile drop feeds between venue and Eladian
- Monitor disconnects to exchanges
- Help allocate server and memory space for strategies
- Log internal/external latencies for traders
Required Experience/Skills:
- Must be proficient in Linux and have proven troubleshooting skills
- Must be able to understand complex relationships between components of multi-tiered applications and systems
- Must be proficient in shell scripting and have working knowledge of python
- Proven ability to resolve technical issues as they arise
- Must have strong written and verbal communication skills
- Must be proficient in MS Excel and other MS Office software
- Knowledge of C++ is beneficial
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Trading Operations Associate
Reports To:
Director of Operations
Location:
London, UK
Responsibilities:
- Prepare and analyze daily trading and position reconciliations between internal records and clearing firms
- Prepare and analyze daily, weekly and monthly firm-wide P&L reporting
- Work with internal teams, clearing firm and street to resolve trade breaks and fails
- Enter and load manual trade adjustments as needed
- Process corporate actions and dividends
- Work closely with Finance and Trading teams on position and pricing discrepancies
- Provide support for traders
- Monitor exceptions and escalate issues that represent risk to the firm
- Process and monitor all error trades
- Work with Development team to automate and improve reconciliation process
- Monitor stock loan activity and position management
- Validate monthly clearing fees
Required Experience/Skills:
Required Experience/Skills
- Experience with global asset classes including: equities, futures, FX and fixed income
- Experience in EMEA clearing and settlement landscape preferred
- Experience managing a high volume of listed trades
- Exposure to stock loan and corporate actions/dividends
- Proven ability to resolve trade breaks/fails efficiently and professionally
- Must have strong written and verbal communication skills
- Must be proficient in MS Excel and other MS Office software
Desired Experience/Skills
- Trade support experience in multiple geographic locations
- Experience with daily operations reporting
- Experience working with multiple brokers and accounts
- Experience with scripting
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Trading Platform Developer
Reports To:
Team Leader
Location:
New York, NY
Responsibilities:
- Gain familiarity with team and processes (first 3 months)
- Software development, optimization and performance testing in an ultra-high frequency trading environment
- Implement and optimize trading platform working collaboratively with the quantitative analyst and traders
- Contribute to system architecture decisions and the selection of development and research tools
Required Experience/Skills:
Required Experience/Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field or equivalent work experience. Master's degree is preferred
- Three or more years of experience programming in C++
- Three years working in a Linux environment
- At least two years experience with a scripting language(Python, Perl, Ruby, etc). Python preferred
- Experience measuring and optimizing software algorithms
Desired Skills:
- Assembly language experience
- BOOST library experience
- Experience optimizing the Linux Kernel
- Experience measuring network latency
- Familiarity with high frequency trading
- Strategic thinker/Really enjoys figuring out how software and hardware work
- Detail-oriented
- Driven to deliver only quality code
- For the right solution, open to any technology
Behavioral Characteristics:
If you are interested in applying for this position, please
submit your resume here.
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User Interface Developer
Reports To:
Team Leader
Location:
New York, NY
Responsibilities:
Eladian Partners is looking for a user interface developer with a clear design vision. In this industry, we interact with incredible amounts of data. We understand that a well-designed interface has the capacity to turn information into the basis on which people can make intelligent decisions.
For this we require a candidate that is familiar with prototyping, conceptualizing, innovating current interaction paradigms and proposing new ways to solve a design need. Your role within the company would be to work with our traders and quantitative analysts. You'll take their requirements, analyze their data, and with their feedback, you'll build tools that drive productivity.
Required Experience/Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, UI/UX, or related field or equivalent work experience
- A portfolio of prior work
- Experience with server side technologies, such as Apache, nginx, IIS, running on either Linux or Windows
- Experience with data layer technologies, such as mysql, hadoop, mongodb, redis, memcached
- Experience with client side technologies, such as javascript, CSS, (HTML 5 would be a bonus)
- Experience in general programming C#, python (maybe some C++ with QT)
- High attention to detail and driven to deliver only quality code
- Great communication skills
- For the right solution, open to any technology
Behavioral Characteristics:
If you are interested in applying for this position, please
submit your resume here.
Eladian Partners is not accepting third-party resume submissions for these positions.
