KNOT CAPITAL - Key Persons


Andrei Baraian

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Product
  • Product Management
Andrei Baraian is the Chief of Product at Knot Capital. Previously, he worked in R&D and more recently as Product Owner of the trading front-end solution at ITIVITI (formerly ULLINK), having spent a significant part of his career in its Paris and Hong Kong offices. Andrei holds an MSc in Computer Science from BabeČ™-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and is a certified CSPO.

Despina Donca

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing and Operations
  • Marketing and Operations
Despina Donca is the Head of Marketing and Operations at Knot Capital. Previously, she worked in marketing for MARS Germany and IT consultancy at Accenture. More recently, she co-founded Engage, a startup operating in the employee engagement field. Despina holds an MSc in Business Administration from the University of Bern.

Emil Donca - CTO

Job Titles:
  • CTO
  • Technical Advisor
Emil has an extensive track record building high-performance trading systems for top sell-side and systematic buy-side firms - Goldman Sachs, Flow Traders, ExodusPoint. Emil's career has been focused on creating innovative technical designs that enable business excellence in systematic trading. He has a Computer Science background with an MSc in Statistical Modelling from BabeČ™-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.

Philip Green

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Advisor
Experienced Technology Lead with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications, investment banking and aquaculture industries. Skilled in Equities Trading Systems, Mobile Financial Systems, Aquaculture, Agriculture and Software Development. Well rounded and strong information technology professional graduated from INSEAD.