Bloomberg Solutions to Successfully Launch Your Hedge Fund
- Jonny Tang, New Business Development, London Buyside
- Andrea Mosconi, Head of Sales, EMEA
- Federico Grasso, Advanced Product Specialist - AIM - Bloomberg OMS
- Vlad Megyesi, Portfolio and Index solutions sales
- Phil Sexton, Risk Solutions sales
- Ben Clarke, Head of BQuant Implementation UK & Ireland
11.10am: "Leveraging Electronic Trading & Automation"
- Brian Henry Lovell, Business Development - Electronic Trading Solutions
- Anton Erofeenko, Business Development - Electronic Trading Solutions
11.55pm: "Incorporating ESG, Research and Modelling Solutions"
- Aveesh Acharya, European Buy-side Workflow Specialist
- Phil Capone, European Buy-side Workflow Specialist
12.40pm: "Leveraging Alternative Data across your Enterprise"
- Adam Zellen, Enterprise Data sales - Hedge Funds
- Ashley Fuller, Enterprise Data sales - Hedge Funds
Speakers
Andrea Mosconi
Global Head of Equity, Research and Listed Services Product
Bloomberg L.P.
Andrea Mosconi is Global Head of Equity,Research and Listed Services Product at Bloomberg LP — the world's most trusted source for connecting decision-makers to a dynamic network of real-time and historical financial data, news, research and analytics. Based in London, Mr. Mosconi oversees business development of the Bloomberg Terminal and key client relationships across the EMEA region. His expertise covers equity derivatives, structured products and convertible bonds.
Mr. Mosconi joined Bloomberg in 2009 as an Equity Derivatives and Structured Products Specialist, and was responsible for its derivatives product development. In 2012, he became Head of Sales for Southern Europe — covering Spain, France, Italy and Portugal. From 2015 he ran the sales group for ASEAN out of Singapore, before taking up his current role in 2018, as head of Sales for EMEA.
Prior to joining Bloomberg, Mr. Mosconi was the Head of Structured and Equity Exotic Options desk at Abaxbank. He started his career as an Equity Derivatives Trader with Unicredit.
Mr. Mosconi graduated from the Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematical and Financial Economics.
Jonny Tang
New Business Development, London Buyside
Bloomberg L.P.
Jonny joined Bloomberg in 2014 from Lazard's Private Equity Fundraising team and has looked after key relationships in the London hedge fund community. He is now focused on developing new connections with emerging managers across the London Buyside. Please contact him on jtang201@bloomberg.net if you wish to understand more about the services and solutions that Bloomberg can bring to your firm across terminals, product and data.
Vlad Megyesi
Portfolio and Index solutions sales
Bloomberg L.P.
Vlad joined Bloomberg in 2013 and works in the Portfolio Risk and Analytics sales team, covering buyside clients in the UK. He works with many investment firms, big and small, to help them get the most out of the Bloomberg Portfolio solution. Prior to that he worked as part of the team that helped integrate the POINT system into Bloomberg's platform.
Philip Sexton
Risk Solutions sales
Bloomberg L.P.
Philip Sexton has a Bachelors degree in Mathematics with Economics from the University of Southampton, as well as passing both the MSTA and CAIA professional qualifications. Philip has been at Bloomberg for over 13 years spending five years focusing on the Equity Derivatives business before stepping into the Risk Solutions group. Here, he works across the London Buyside providing portfolio, risk and collateral solutions.
Ben Clarke
UK & Ireland Desktop Build Group Team Lead
BLOOMBERG/ LONDON
Ben Clarke is the UK & Ireland Desktop Build Group Team Lead at Bloomberg, leading a team of financial application developers and specialists to help Bloomberg clients in developing quantitative research via BQuant, Bloomberg's python-based data science platform.
Ben's team works very closely with the BQuant product development team, helping to shape the future direct and go to market strategy across the region - with a particular focus on factor scoring, relative valuation analysis, asset allocation and research management workflows. Ben also manages the Excel/ VBA development team.
He joined Bloomberg 10 years ago and has worked in London and Hong Kong.
Brian Henry Lovell
New Business sales - Electronic Trading Solutions
Bloomberg L.P.
Brian joined Bloomberg in 2014, as a Business Development Executive, in Electronic Trading having previously held similar roles in New York and London. Currently he is looking after Bloomberg trading automation, connectivity solutions and TCA in the UK, Ireland and Eastern Europe.
Anton Erofeenko
Electronic Trading and TCA Sales
Bloomberg
Anton joined Bloomberg in 2015 as an Electronic Trading specialist after completing his MBA. He has been working with Bloomberg electronic trading and TCA platforms across all asset classes for the last 6 years. Currently he is looking after business development of the Bloomberg trading automation, connectivity solutions and TCA in Northern Europe and London.
PHILIP CAPONE
Buyside Market and Product Specialists
BLOOMBERG/ LONDON
Philip Capone, CFA has thirteen years of global institutional investment management expertise, primarily in front office, fundamental research positions at large asset managers and emerging hedge funds in New York City. Prior to his current role as an EMEA Buyside Market Specialist at Bloomberg, Philip advised investment funds directly responsible for over $10 billion of assets under management, and performed integral roles launching and scaling registered asset management firms
Ashley Fuller
Enterprise Data sales - London Hedge Funds
Bloomberg L.P.
Ashley joined Bloomberg in 2014 having previously worked for Independent Macro Research firms, Variant Perception and Roubini Global Economics. Prior to this he worked for Complinet providing compliance solutions to the financial services community. He looks after the Enterprise Data relationships for London Hedge funds at Bloomberg and in his spare time he also serves on the Board of Governors & for Hedge Funds Cares (HFC), a charity committed to the prevention and treatment of child abuse worldwide.
Aveesh Acharya
ESG Market Specialist
Bloomberg L.P.
Aveesh Acharya is a Buyside Workflow Solutions Specialist at Bloomberg, advising clients on the most appropriate finance and technology solutions for their business needs. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Aveesh worked for over 12 years on equity derivatives structuring desks in tier 1 investment banks, primarily focusing on Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) and Sustainability (ESG) product development. He has gained a deep knowledge of portfolio construction, multi-asset risk premia, asset allocation and regulations covering institutional buyside clients. Aveesh holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Imperial College and an MBA from London Business School.
Adam Zellen
Bloomberg
Adam Zellen is the Enterprise Data Relationship Manager for US and Canadian Banks, UK Asset managers, Hedge funds and Market Makers for Bloomberg LP. Adam Joined Bloomberg in 2017 Enterprise Analytics Department where he was a Deputy Team Leader for Bloomberg's Equity and Derivative Electronic Trading platforms, and later on as the Enterprise Analytics Team Leader for Iberia. Adam now specialises in consulting Bloomberg's client with reference data, regulatory data, pricing data, quantitative data, alternative data, Real time data and how to leverage Bloomberg's technology to automate data workflow for the buy side and sell side.
Fede Grasso
Advanced Product Specialist - AIM - Order Management System
Bloomberg L.P.
As part of the Analytics Buyside Group, Federico assists our clients to maximise the benefits they can get from our buyside solution for Order Management System, AIM, via leveraging it at its full capabilities on a daily basis. Former Trader for an Asset Manager, he mixes proficiency in Bloomberg usage with knowledge of our clients' daily problems and needs, in order to consistently deliver our best Customer Service, and being one step ahead of clients' problems and requirements.