WINTON GROUP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Fund Manager in Managed Futures and Quantitative
Job Titles:
- General Counsel
- Member of the Hedge Fund Lawyers Association
Brigid Rentoul manages Winton's in-house legal and compliance functions and is responsible for providing legal, strategic and business counsel to the firm. She is a member of the firm's executive management committee and is an Executive Director of Winton.
Brigid joined Winton in 2012 from Linklaters, where she was a leading international securities lawyer and a partner for 15 years. Brigid previously worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and London.
Outside of Winton, Brigid is a member of the Hedge Fund Lawyers Association and sits on the global regulatory committee of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments. She also supports the charity City Pay It Forward, which aims to improve the financial literacy of primary school children, and is a trustee of CW+, the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Brigid read law at Cambridge University and was a Mellon Fellow at Yale Law School.
Job Titles:
- Co - Chief Investment Officer
- in 2008 As a Researcher
Carsten Schmitz leads Winton's investment management and research activities. He is a member of Winton's executive management and investment committees.
Carsten joined Winton in 2008 as a researcher focused on the design of quantitative trading strategies. From 2012 Carsten was leading Winton's Zurich research team, before moving back to London and being promoted to Head of Investment Strategy and subsequently Head of Research.
Carsten earned a Diploma with distinction from RWTH Aachen in Germany and a PhD with distinction from the University of Zurich. For his PhD and postdoctoral position, Carsten worked at the DESY collider facility in Hamburg, analysing data from high-energy particle collisions.
James Gilbert is responsible for Winton's client relationship management, business development and marketing activities globally. He is a member of the firm's executive management committee.
As Head of Client Solutions, James has overseen the enhancement of Winton's product offering to a targeted range of investment solutions, while forging deeper relationships with the firm's long-term strategic clients.
James joined Winton's business development team in 2012 and relocated to the United States in 2014 to establish the firm's New York office. In 2016, he returned to London to lead an executive office function reporting directly into Winton's founder, before his appointment to his current role in 2018. Prior to Winton, James worked in equity derivatives sales at Goldman Sachs.
James holds a first-class Honours degree in economics from University College London, and a Master's degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge.
Job Titles:
- Head of Investment Operations
Joss Anstey is responsible for Winton's execution, middle office and treasury functions. He is a member of the firm's executive management and investment committees.
Joss has led the development of Winton's execution and operational capabilities over the past decade as the firm has expanded its investment universe into a wider range of global equities, exchange-traded and OTC derivatives, and credit instruments. Joss joined Winton in 2012 from Société Générale as a foreign exchange trading specialist, before his appointment to Head of Execution in 2014.
Joss holds a first-class degree in mathematics and an MSc with distinction in finance, both from Imperial College, London.
Nick Saunders is responsible for all of Winton's non-investment functions. He is a member of the Winton's executive management and investment committees and chairs the firm's ESG committee, which coordinates its corporate social responsibility efforts.
Since joining Winton in 2011, Nick has overseen the build out of the investment infrastructure and technology needed to support the firm's expansion into new asset classes, trading strategies, and bespoke client solutions. Prior to his appointment as Chief Operating Officer in 2017, Nick held senior leadership roles across Winton's technology and investment operations teams, including Chief Information Officer and Head of Investment Operations.
Before Winton, Nick was Co-Head of European Operations at Marshall Wace and received a BA Honours degree in geography from the University of Birmingham.
Omar Iqbal is responsible for designing and implementing the firm's approach to attracting, developing, and retaining talent. He is a member of Winton's executive management and ESG committees.
Since joining Winton in 2016, Omar has overseen a broadening in the range of investment talent recruited by the firm, which has included strategic hires in new trading styles and asset classes. He led Winton's human capital response to Covid in 2020 and the subsequent return to the office. He has also been a key driver of many of the firm's recent corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Before joining Winton in 2016, Omar was a managing director in the Human Capital Management Division of Goldman Sachs for 13 years. Prior to that, Omar held recruiting roles at Credit Suisse First Boston, and BNP Paribas.
Omar holds a degree in economics and sociology from the University of Surrey.
Job Titles:
- Co - Chief Investment Officer
Simon Judes leads Winton's investment management and research activities. He is a member of the firm's executive management and investment committees.
Joining Winton as a researcher in 2008, Simon has worked on projects ranging from developing new commodity, macro and equity trading strategies, to leading research into portfolio construction methods. He took over responsibility for Winton's core futures and forwards strategies in 2016 and has since led the design of standalone and bespoke implementations of Winton's CTA strategies.
Simon has a first-class Honours degree in physics and philosophy from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in physics from Columbia University, with a thesis on string theory and cosmology.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Executive Chair
Sir David Harding has been at the forefront of systematic investment management for more than 40 years. He has founded two successful investment management companies: the first, AHL, was sold to Man Group in 1994; he launched the second, Winton, in 1997.
David's philanthropic interests focus on funding scientific research and the communication of scientific ideas. In February 2019, David's foundation gave $130 million to Cambridge University, part of which funds the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars Programme. Other notable gifts include donations to the Cavendish Laboratory, the Max Planck Institute in Berlin and the Science Museum in London. David and his wife Claudia are signatories of the Giving Pledge, a commitment to give away more than half their wealth during their lifetimes.
David was recognised for his services to philanthropy with the title of Knight Bachelor in the Queen's 2022 New Year Honours List.
David sits on the Advisory Board of the Royal Society, the University of Cambridge Development Board, and is an honorary Fellow of the Science Museum, and of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
A graduate of Cambridge University, David received a first-class Honours degree in natural sciences, specialising in theoretical physics.