GCSA CAPITAL - Key Persons
David Hardy was previously group chief executive, LCH.Clearnet Group Limited, where he chaired the Group Management Committee and had overall responsibility for the Group's strategic objectives and financial targets. Prior to the creation of LCH.Clearnet Group in 2003, Mr. Hardy served as chief executive, The London Clearing House Ltd.(LCH).
Mr. Hardy has worked in clearing since 1985, and became managing director of the London Clearing House division of the International Commodities Clearing House in 1987. This division subsequently became London Clearing House Ltd in 1991. Early in his career Mr. Hardy spent 12 years with Barclays Bank where he worked for the main bank and its affiliates. During his time with LCH, the business grew from clearing London based exchange traded commodity futures and options to become the major international CCP, additionally clearing equity, interest rate swap and government debt trades. Widely seen as an innovator in its field, LCH's groundbreaking OTC clearing service was established a decade before the present recognition of the benefits of centralized clearing for such products.
Mr. Hardy was a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC). In the UK, he has served on the Boards of the Futures and Options Association and the Financial Service Authority's Financial Services Practitioner Panel, which represents a cross-section of regulated firms. From 1993 to 1999, he served on the boards of the International Petroleum Exchange (1993-1999) and the London Commodity Exchange from 1991 until its merger with the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange in 1996. David Hardy is a Freeman of the City of London and was inducted into the Futures Industry Hall of Fame in 2009.
Job Titles:
- Member of LJM Group LLC
- Retired Managing Member of Davidson Kempner Capital
Management (DKCM). Mr. Dowicz retired from DKCM as a managing member on 12/31/14.
January 1986. Mr. Dowicz managed the merger arbitrage and the convertible and volatility
Mr. Dowicz is currently the sole member of LJM Group LLC, a NJ family office, and CT Spa
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Committee
Mr. Jin was an Executive Director at Nomura Securities where he led a credit quant team in New York that supported the credit trading desk, which included structured credit, flow credit, and CVA. His responsibilities included model development and implementation, pricing library development and enhancement, as well as trading and risk management tools creation for both vanilla and structured credit products. Prior, he worked at Nomura building models for credit and interest rate products and oversaw MBS prepayment and OAS model development.
Prior to Nomura, Mr. Jin held positions at CIBC World Market, Cinergy, and John Hancock Financial Services in quantitative research and risk management covering financial products in commodities, interest rates, and insurance. Prior to that, Mr. Jin was a Visiting Assistant Professor in mathematics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Indiana University.
Mr. Jin holds a PhD in mathematics from NYU and a Bachelor of Science from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.