SEBASTIEN FIAUX
CEO & Founder
Hedge Fund of Funds executive at Credit Suisse. Member of the Investment Committee, global head of Fundamental Strategies, head of US Portfolio Management.
Equity Research at Associés en Finance.
Strategy Consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.
Alumni of ENSAE (France’s leading school for Statistics, Financial Mathematics & Economics), Sciences Po and Cornell University (Master’s of Financial Engineering, recipient of the Andrew Schultz, Jr. Award for Academic Excellence).
FRANÇOIS JANSON
COO & Founder
Vice President of Association des Anciens des Grandes Ecoles de France (New York).
Member of NY and Quebec bars.
Interim General Counsel at CAE Inc.
M&A and securities lawyer at Holland & Knight, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt and Willkie, Farr & Gallagher.
Alumni of Sciences Po and law degrees from the University of Paris and Tulane University.
MANUEL BARBERO
Chief Technology Advisor
Manuel is a technology strategist who has also built and managed mission-critical software by leading highly-skilled technology teams in both Fortune 100 and a number of start-up firms. Most recently he was Chief Architect at Northwestern Mutual and Head of Architecture for Core Management at Bridgewater Associates. He held CTO positions at UBS and KPMG where he led the Financial Services technology advisory practice.
President & Managing Partner of Kurt Salmon’s US technology consulting arm.
Manuel holds an MBA and a graduate certificate in Artificial Intelligence from Columbia University in the City of New York. He also earned an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Telecom ParisTech and was a visiting scholar at the University of California in San Diego.
CHRISTOPHE BRILLIÉ
Head of Sales and Marketing
Institutional Sales Manager at BNY Mellon IM EMEA
Institutional Sales Manager at Elea Capital
Intermediaries and Wholesalers Sales Manager at MyFunds Office
Alumni of Paris-Dauphine University (Master’s of Banking, Finance and Insurance)
Benoit Barthelet
Chief Developer
Developer at Sullivan-c, powering AI-based apps on Google Cloud Platform
Portfolio manager – derivatives products at Generali
Fund of hedge funds portfolio manager at Lazard Frères Gestion
Hedge fund derivatives trader at SGAM AI
Graduate of ESCP Europe (Finance major)
Phil Larragoite
Developer/Programmer
Phil excels at turning client ideas into customized database applications for internal and customer use, and deploying complete solutions to the cloud. He has designed software solutions for businesses and not-for profits, and focuses on financial analysis applications.
Among his projects, he led the development of software to collect and analyze large amounts of data for a National Science Foundation-funded study at the Santa Fe Institute.
Phil has also designed and built eCommerce systems for various companies, including customer interfaces and database applications to function as primary drivers of revenue and growth.
In addition to computer science, Phil studied history and English at the University of New Mexico (UNM). The UNM Civil and Structural Engineering Department uses a hardware/software system of his design to automate testing of material samples.
Rafael Girardello
Dev Ops
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Mathematics and Computer Science, McGill University
Rafael has an interest in machine learning as used in both FinTech and Natural Language Processing. He has researched the use of machine learning in predicting political orientation and developed such a model to work with Twitter feeds.
In addition to machine learning, he has an interest in database systems and physics.
