Học Biochemistry làm Head Trader and Market Analyst for Catalyst Investment Management. John Clifford Director of Institutional Trading and Operations San Francisco Bay AreaInvestment Management Current: Quantum Capital Management Previous: Jones Trading, Catalyst Investment Management Company, LLC, Genentech Inc Education University of California, Davis Bachelor, Science Biochemistry 1993 – 1996 Summary Resourceful Equity Trader offering progressive hedge fund experience and a proven track record generating value-added trading results across the capital market structure including equity and options in spreads and synthetics. Utilizes insightful analytical skills and intuitive business judgment to evaluate financial data for prudent information sharing, risk mitigation, and development of successful trade strategies. Viewed as a trusted advisor and business partner by clients and portfolio managers. Committed to adding value and exceeding expectations through collaborative problem solving, reliability, integrity, disciplined decision making, and a customer service mindset. Areas of expertise include: -Value added trade execution via proper liquidity sourcing and market awareness. -Maximizing industry resources using strong relationships developed over 12 year career. -Attention to detail and willingness to become extensively emerged in portfolios to assure accuracy of work. -Team oriented with a desire to cross train and become a more valuable member of the firm. -Outstanding reputation and ethical foundation. -Dedicated awareness of market conditions, current news, and industry trends. -FINRA Series 4,7,55,63. Experience Quantum Capital Management Trader Quantum Capital Management June 2013 – Present (1 year 7 months)|San Francisco Bay Area Sales Trader Jones Trading August 2011 – June 2013 (1 year 11 months)|JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC, Mill Valley, CA • 2011 - Present Institutional Equity and Derivative Sales Trader Equity and Options Sales Trader covering hedge fund clients ranging in size from $10 million to $2 billion assets under management. Trade working orders, large natural blocks, arbitrage spreads, and options as stand alone trades or in complex spreads. Act as an extension of client’s buy side trading desks in distributing market information, news flow throughout the day and keep clients up on real time information relating to stock price movements. Head Trader Catalyst Investment Management Company, LLC January 2000 – February 2011 (11 years 2 months)|Catalyst Investment Management Company, LLC, San Francisco, CA • 2000 – 2011 Investment firm operating three hedge funds with total assets under management of over $300 million. Vice President of Trading Executed equity and option trades for a long / short event driven hedge fund throughout a very volatile decade. Set up merger arbitrage stock spreads as well as stock and options positions for companies in cash tenders / auctions. Used equity and derivatives in combination to profit from previously unannounced mergers or multiple offer situations. Executed trades in low liquidity stocks for distressed equity fund using dark pools, algorithms, and careful investigation of natural order flow from trusted sell side contacts. Worked with PMs on portfolio hedging strategies using out of the money index put spreads. Updated portfolio managers on news events, market movements, and general trends in the market place. Responsible for monitoring positions in all 3 funds including managing trading and correspondence when PMs and analysts were out of the office. Built and maintained relationships within the San Francisco and East Coast trading communities. Allocated trades to separately managed accounts across fund groups. Helped portfolio managers and analysts obtain research reports and coordinate conference attendance. Worked with operations department facilitating trade booking and proofreading nightly reports. Managed trading commission budget. Experience trading in cash and on swap in European markets, including currency risk hedging. Worked with analysts to trade and book a small number of CDS positions. Research Associate, Process Sciences Genentech Inc January 1996 – January 1999 (3 years 1 month) One of the worlds leading biotech companies with approximately 13,000 employees. Research Associate, Process Sciences Supported a process development team engaged in discovering, optimizing, characterizing and scaling up pharmaceutical protein recovery processes from laboratory to production. Researched numerous protein purification unit operations and explored promising new technologies. Collaborated with process engineers to troubleshoot existing protein purification unit operations at production scale. https://linkedin/pub/john-clifford/29/b53/236 John Clifford Director Institutional Operations & Trading Mr. Clifford brings to Quantum Capital an extensive investment background. After a brief career in Biotech at Genentech he was the Head Trader and Market Analyst for Catalyst Investment Management for 10 years. He then moved to the sell side for 2 years at Jones Trading, LLC as an equity and options sales trader covering hedge fund and mutual fund clients. Both at Catalyst and at Jones he specialized in small and mid cap block trading and sourcing natural liquidity in an effort to minimize market impact for less liquid stocks. Professional areas of interest include market structure and the role of High Frequency Trading and Dark Pools. He holds the following FINRA Series License 4, 7, 55, 63. Mr. Clifford graduated from UC Davis with a BS in Biochemistry. quantumcap/
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