James Chen
Donough Murphy
James Chen
Founder, Chief Investment Officer & Head of Relative Value
James has 25 years of investment experience in global equity markets. Prior to launching the fund, James established and led the Asia equities business for BlueCrest Capital Management, responsible for all investment and non-investment personnel in Hong Kong. Before BlueCrest, Jame
Founder, Chief Investment Officer & Head of Relative Value
James has 25 years of investment experience in global equity markets. Prior to launching the fund, James established and led the Asia equities business for BlueCrest Capital Management, responsible for all investment and non-investment personnel in Hong Kong. Before BlueCrest, James was Managing Director and Head of Asia Equities Risk Trading at Barclays Capital. Prior to moving to Asia, James held a number of senior investment and trading roles in New York, including Global Head of Basket Trading and Arbitrage at Bear Stearns and Co-Head of US Delta One Trading at JP Morgan, following the merger of the two firms.
Choot Lim
Donough Murphy
James Chen
Partner & Head of Arbitrage
Choot has over 20 years of index, portfolio trading, and derivatives experience in Asia. Prior to joining Ovata Capital, Choot was a Managing Director, Head of Asian Index Strategies at RBC from 2008 until early 2017, holding the same role at Bear Stearns from 2006 until mid-2008, as well as equity derivatives t
Partner & Head of Arbitrage
Choot has over 20 years of index, portfolio trading, and derivatives experience in Asia. Prior to joining Ovata Capital, Choot was a Managing Director, Head of Asian Index Strategies at RBC from 2008 until early 2017, holding the same role at Bear Stearns from 2006 until mid-2008, as well as equity derivatives trades roles at ABN Amro, Goldman Sachs, and KGI in Hong Kong.
Donough Murphy
Donough Murphy
Donough Murphy
Partner & Head of Capital Markets
Donough has 20 years’ industry experience across London and Hong Kong. Before joining Ovata Capital, Donough was Head of Dealing for Equities at BlueCrest in Asia, and also coordinated capital markets activities across the region. Prior to this, Donough was Head of Equities Execution for Barclays Capital Asia.
Ken Fujii
Nicholas Bloom
Donough Murphy
Partner & Head of Trading
Ken has 30 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Ovata Capital, Ken was Head of Asia Cash Facilitation and Risk Trading at BNP Paribas, and before that at Barclays. Previously, Ken was head of PT Risk Trading at JP Morgan and worked in trading and risk roles across Nomura, UBS, and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, in Japan, Hong Kong and the U.S.
Nicholas Bloom
Nicholas Bloom
Nicholas Bloom
Partner & Chief Operating Officer
Nicholas is responsible for all non-investment activities of the firm. Nicholas has over 30 years of industry experience, the last 20+ years in Asia. Nicholas chairs the firm’s Operating Committee and is the firm’s Chief Compliance Officer. Nicholas has held Asian COO roles at funds (Three Stones, an Asian
Partner & Chief Operating Officer
Nicholas is responsible for all non-investment activities of the firm. Nicholas has over 30 years of industry experience, the last 20+ years in Asia. Nicholas chairs the firm’s Operating Committee and is the firm’s Chief Compliance Officer. Nicholas has held Asian COO roles at funds (Three Stones, an Asian-based multi-strategy fund; Citadel) and investment banks (Natixis, Barclays - Equities, Credit Suisse - Equities, and Schroders Japan). Whilst at Credit Suisse, Nicholas was the Global Head of the Centres of Excellence initiative.
Eric Dussault
Nicholas Bloom
Nicholas Bloom
Partner & Chief Risk Officer
Prior to joining Ovata, Eric was the Chief Risk Officer for Myriad Asset Management and, before this, Asia Equities Head of Regional Market Risk at Barclays Capital. Eric also has served as the Asia Ex-Japan Head of Fixed Income, Credit and Commodities Market Risk Management for Barclays Capital and, before mov
Partner & Chief Risk Officer
Prior to joining Ovata, Eric was the Chief Risk Officer for Myriad Asset Management and, before this, Asia Equities Head of Regional Market Risk at Barclays Capital. Eric also has served as the Asia Ex-Japan Head of Fixed Income, Credit and Commodities Market Risk Management for Barclays Capital and, before moving to Asia, worked in London at Barclays Capital risk-managing FX options and at Deutsche Bank risk-managing bond options. Eric began his career in the commodities middle office of Elf Trading (now Total SA).
Marc Hubert
Marc Hubert
Marc Hubert
Head of New Products & Business Development
Prior to joining Ovata, Marc oversaw the Asia TOPS strategy at Marshall Wace for nearly eight years. Before this, he worked as a fundamental equity analyst based in Hong Kong with GaveKal Capital and later Marshall Wace GaveKal. Marc started his career at Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst in the Investment Management Division in San Francisco.