COVARIO - Key Persons


Andreas Thode

Job Titles:
  • Co - Head of Institutional Sales

Cody J Smith

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor

Damien Ackerer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Quantitative Researcher

Deepak Gulati

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
Deepak is the former Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Argentière Capital, a firm that he founded in 2013. Prior to founding Argentière, Deepak was the Global Head of JPMorgan's Equities Proprietary Trading Group. Prior to this role he served as the Head of Derivative Trading Strategies at JPMorgan and was in charge of global risk management for the entire European Proprietary Trading Group. Deepak graduated from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia with a B.S. in Finance in 2000.

Eamon Comerford - Chief Commercial Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Commercial Officer
  • Certified Investment Fund Director from CIFD Institute
Eamon brings over 20 year's experience in traditional financial markets, he is the former Chief Risk Officer at the volatility hedge fund Argentière Capital. He started his career at Archelon LLC and continued his equity derivatives trading career at DTS and Van der Moolen. Eamon is a Certified Investment Fund Director from CIFD Institute, Dublin and holds a Master in Urban Economics from University of Rouen.

Felix Schmidheiny

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director

Florian Giovannacci

Job Titles:
  • Head of Trading

Janne Fazio - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer

Keith Noyes

Job Titles:
  • Chief Risk & Compliance Officer

Luis Fernández

Job Titles:
  • Head of Quantitative Research
Part of the founding team of hedge fund Argentière Capital, Luis built the systematic trading desk from the ground-up. He headed the quantitative strategies across market-neutral cash equities and volatility derivatives asset allocations. Prior to that, he was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan, where he was a quant trader on the Global Equities Proprietary Trading desk. He started his career in particle physics research at CERN. Luis holds a Master's degree in Theoretical Physics from UNIL, and a PhD in Physics from EPFL.

Mark Banner - CEO, Chairman, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Co - Founder
Mark is co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Covario. Prior to that, he was a Director overseeing the Asian operations for private equity fund Capsquare-Asia Partners. For over a decade, Mark built and advised companies in corporate finance and financial technology as entrepreneurial investor in South East Asia. He started his career in Goldman Sachs as Quantitative Analyst. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Philosophy from Dartmouth College.

Matei Mihalca

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor

Maximilian Büttiker

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director

Michael Baumgartner

Job Titles:
  • Co - Head of Institutional Sales

Patrik Gilli - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer

Richard Forss - CTO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer
Prior to joining Covario as Head of Technology, Richard spent 7 years managing the technology team as CTO of hedge fund Argentière Capital. He previously worked 4 years as Systems Director at Arrowgrass Capital. Richard has over 15 years of experience as senior Technology Manager at Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust, UBS and Credit Suisse.