Hinesh Kalian

Data and AI

Member of Man’s Investment data committee Founded Man Group’s Data Science function - responsible for the build out and management of new data sourcing, data science and data management teams for quant and discretionary investing Delivered 500+ data-driven research projects for quant and discretionary investment teams Managed the data acquisition process including discovery, evaluation, on-boarding, contract negotiations and ongoing vendor management Led efforts to rationalize data feeds and increase operational efficiency to enhance data sharing and analytics Oversight of market data, reference data and alternative data - responsible for delivering data research and real-time data to the firms investment teams Led a team of sector data analysts that work with fundamental investment teams to understand key data drivers, test investment hypothesis and deliver new data products and solutions Identify, design and implement internal data processes : automating, optimizing data delivery, cloud integration, designing a scalable data infrastructure Managing the build out of Man’s next generation streaming market data systems including low latency capabilities for HFT trading and quant strategies Managed firms annual data budget covering and data cost allocation process Build out Man’s alternative data and web-scraping due diligence and governance frameworks Managing Man’s ESG data and analytics central functions Oversight of firmwide data management including design, quality, protection, storage and ongoing data monitoring of production

AHL Partner, member of AHL Investment Committee, Operations and Execution Committee Created a Global Quant Implementation team overseeing AHL’s quant operations, model investment management, systematic trading and data management Led the development of AHL’s new quant systems to trade multi assets intraday including single name assets and alternative markets - increasing AUM management from $20bn to $60bn Introduced systematic interest rates and credit derivatives to AHL’s portfolios, managing OTC to electronic trading transition, data ingestion and liquidity controls Introduced alternative commodity, fixed income and credit markets to AHL’s Evolution portfolio increasing markets trading from 100 to over 500 and increasing capacity from $500m to over $8bn Founding member of AHL’s Evolution Frontier team - introducing and integrating 500+ new frontier markets increasing $AUM allocation from $100m to $1.2bn Building out AHL’s APAC capabilities, introducing new quant systems, new funds, markets, data infrastructure and talent Oversight of AHL’s onshore operational China presence, new markets and asset class integration, quant operations and counterparty relations Founded AHL’s Data Science team responsible overseeing data sourcing and data scientists Oversight of AHL’s data management activities to build out data feeds for over 2000 multi asset markets Responsible for live streaming market data pipelines, alternative data, reference data and internal data

Distinction. Modules covered include : Portfolio optimisation, asset management, financial econometrics, time-series forecasting, modelling commodity derivatives, quantitative portfolio construction.