OMNI RISKS MANAGEMENT - Key Persons
Pierre Leignadier founded OMNI in 2004, and he has over 25 years of experience at the interface of trading, risk, and models. Prior to OMNI, Pierre was the head of Scandinavian interest-rate derivatives trading at Handelsbanken in London. He also set up the Securitized Credit Analytics team at Calyon Americas and was a derivatives trader and quantitative developer for Banque Indosuez in Paris and Stockholm. Pierre holds a Master of Engineering from Agro-ParisTech (formerly INA PG) and a Master of Philosophy in Decision and Risk Sciences from ENS Paris-Saclay.
Yihui Zhang joined OMNI in 2010. Yihui is a senior quantitative expert. He has led numerous MRM projects dealing with most asset classes and specifically Initial Margin models (listed, cleared, uncleared). He is currently in charge of our SIMMForce platform. Prior to joining OMNI, Yihui was an analyst at CITIC Securities in China and a statistical researcher at the Centre for Economic Development Research in China. Yihui holds an M.S. in Financial Engineering (Claremont Graduate University), an M.A. in Economics (Wuhan University) and a B.Eng. in Automotive Engineering/minor in Economics (Wuhan University of Technology).