SRL Global's knowledgeable and talented staff are the foundation of the business and its success.
Neil Puri
CEO – Neil Puri
Neil Puri co-founded SRL Global in 2007 as a joint venture with Man Group Plc, as a specialist systematic high frequency trading and technology business and led the management buyout in mid-2009. Beginning his career as an Equities Market-Maker at Merrill Lynch, he was subsequently one of the founding members of the European propriety trading business and responsible for all Statistical and Quantitative trading in Europe. Neil has Trader Registration on all major Euro-Stock and Futures Exchanges and is a member of the Institute of Investment Management and Research. Neil studied at the University of Oxford and holds a First Class Honours degree in Mathematics, an MSc in Applied Statistics and an MBA in Finance.
Tan Quach
Chief Technical Director
Tan Quach joined SRL Global in September 2007 at the company's inception. Previously, he was a Consultant at Marshall Wace Asset Management in London. At Marshall Wace, he was responsible for updating a legacy futures roll over tool. Prior to this, he worked as a Systems Analyst at Millennium Partners where he designed, built and supported a back office system with position keeping system, automated static data maintenance and corporate action processing. He also designed, built and supported an order management and trade processing system for the portfolio manager. He was a Senior Specialist at Merrill Lynch (2000-2004) where he analysed, defined, built, tested and supported applications for the Portfolio Trading desk in a RAD development environment using Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Office suite VBA macros, Bloomberg Desktop API's and Reuters API's. Tan is proficient in a number of programming languages and has extensive experience across various operating systems and databases. He obtained a BSc (Joint Honours) in Computer Science and Economics in 1997 from Salford University in Manchester.
John Yen
Product Technology Director
John Yen joined SRL Global in July 2008 and leads the Statistical Research team and trading operations in the Asia Pacific region. He has extensive software development experience at top tier investment banks. As Quantitative Researcher / Trader at Deutsche Bank 2005-2008), he was responsible for researching and developing several currencies trading models for G10 and emerging markets. Whilst at Bear Stearns (2004-2005), he helped develop Bear Stearns' view on interest rate derivatives markets, with input into the weekly derivatives piece. He also helped mortgage accounts hedge interest rate exposures of MSRs, collateral, and other types of mortgage portfolios using swaps and swaptions and analyzed mortgage portfolios across various economic scenarios, recommending trading themes to fit investors' investment objectives. He obtained an MSc in Financial Engineering from Columbia University and a BS in Computer Engineering (Dean's Honour List, Magna cum Laude) from University of Pittsburgh.
Mike Leigh
Chief Systems Engineer
Mike Leigh joined SRL in February 2008. He is an experienced Systems Administrator and Networking Engineer with over 10 years' experience across multiple disciplines. Mike has designed, deployed and maintained systems for various companies requiring 24x7 and 99.999% uptime levels. His experience with security and best practice stems from working with extremely high security and sensitive companies and organizations. He has experience of administering Windows and various Linux Servers platform and has configured and installed networks and routers for production environments including SAN, VMWare, RAS, and Firewall devices within Data Centres. He is also a very competent developer, primarily for administration, automation and reporting, and is able to bridge the divide between software developers and hardware providers to ascertain the perfect solution for internal projects.
Dr. Dafydd Daniel
Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Dafydd Daniel joined SRL Global as Chief Scientific Officer having worked at Man Group Plc., London as an investment committee member (peak assets under management of $18 billion) and head of their London fund of hedge funds research and portfolio/product management function. An experienced C++ programmer with substantial background in hedge funds and structured products, including capital requirement modelling, Dafydd is used to bridging business and technical communications. He read Physics at Oxford and also attained his doctorate there in magneto-transport in 1997 and after that he worked for a financial software house before joining Man in 2003 as a senior quantitative analyst.
Robert Deffley
Chief Financial Director
Robert Deffley joined SRL in June 2009. Previously, he was Financial Controller at Man Global Strategies, a $19 billion fund of funds business unit at Man Investments where he was responsible for day to day operations. Whilst at Man, he successfully set up two hedge fund management joint ventures for the Group and had oversight responsibilities for further three joint ventures. Before joining Man Investments in 2007, he worked for seven years in the Investment and Insurance Management division at PriceWaterhouseCoopers where he managed a portfolio of international asset management clients for the Company.
Edward Nelson
Head of Risk and Performance Analysis
As well as his role at SRL Global, Edward Nelson serves as Director of Risk Management at Revere Capital Advisors (one of SRL Global’s shareholders), where he has been since April 2010. He sits on the investment committee at Revere and has additional responsibility for European Manager Research. He was previously Head of Manager Risk at Man Investments in London where he had responsibility for risk oversight of the firm's UK and US based fund investments. Edward began his career in 1995 as a consultant for OCCAM Financial Technology where he specialised in developing software for market risk modelling and portfolio construction. Edward studied at the University of Oxford. He holds a degree in Engineering Science and is a CFA Charterholder.