Mr. Lenders has 20 years of experience in both banking and trading technology. Prior to La Fayette, Mr. Lenders was at Oddo & Cie in Paris, in charge of some proprietary books which included hedge funds investments. Prior to this role, he was based for 6 years in New York  as CEO of Murex North America, delivering trading and risk management technology to about 60 financial institutions, with a particular focus on derivatives, ranging from the simplest to the most complex strategies. Prior to this Mr. Lenders  spent more than 10 years at JP Morgan and 2 years at Bankers Trust. His initial mandates there, from 86 to 94, were around arbitrage, equity options and then fixed income market-making. He was named Managing Director in 1994, he then moved to managing trading floors in Madrid, London and Paris, and proprietary trading around global macro opportunities. Mr. Lenders graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 1984 and holds a diploma in statistics and econometrics from E.N.S.A.E (86).

Mr. Samuel de Bousquet joined La Fayette in April 2008 as an analyst to help strengthen the Risk / Quantitative / IT team. He was appointed Deputy Head of Risk in January 2010. Prior to joining La Fayette, he held engineering positions at Mathématiques Appliquées S.A., Total and Aquarelle.com both in Paris and New York.

 

Mr. de Bousquet graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieured'Artset Métiers with a MSc. degree in Engineering in 2007 and from Université Paris Dauphine with a MSc. degree in Financial Markets, Commodity Markets and Risk Management (Master 203) in 2009.

Chief Operations Officer. Ms. Edmunds joined La Fayette in February 2006. Her key focus is the organisation and coordination of the various operations and financial fields of the firm. Prior to joining La Fayette, Ms. Edmunds held CFO and COO positions at two hedge fund managers, Theorema Asset Management Ltd (Equity Long Short) and GMP Asset Management LLP (European Event Driven). Previously, she was employed by Goldman Sachs International, where she spent over five years working in both its Hong Kong and London offices. She initially held a product accountant role and later moved across to the Equities division to form part of its financial management team. Ms Edmunds received her CFA designation in 2003. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte and Touche in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1995. Ms Edmunds graduated with an Honours degree in Accountancy from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa in 1992.

Mr. Dimakis joined the IT/Risk Group of La Fayette in September 2009. Prior to La Fayette, he was at Imperial College London where he conducted research in the area of distributed simulation. From 2005 to 2007 he was at the AIT Institute (part of INTRACOM S.A.) in Greece working in multi-million EU and industry funded projects in the area of autonomic and high-performance distributed computing. His work has appeared in more than 15 publications in top-ranked journals and conferences. Mr. Dimakis has a diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras (Greece), an MSc in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University (USA), and an MPhil from Imperial College London (UK) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Mr. Nicholas Williams joined La Fayette Operations department in November 2008. Prior to joining La Fayette Mr. Williams spent two years as an Operations Assistant at London based Fund of Hedge Fund Eden Rock Capital Management LLP. Mr. Williams holds a BSc Honours degree in Economics and Politics from the University of Bath

Operational Due Diligence Analyst, Miss Patel joined La Fayette in March 2008 to help strengthen the operational due diligence team. Prior to joining La Fayette Ms Patel was an Assistant Manager at KPMG with over 3 years experience in the audit of investment managers and mutual funds. She became a fully qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA) in September 2007 and also holds a BSc in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Mrs Manning joined Citco (Jersey) Limited in December 2002 to act as Investor Base Reporting for La Fayette Management Ltd, liaising with its investors, distributors and the La Fayette Funds' Administrator and Custodian. Prior to her current position, Mrs Manning worked for over 16 years for a Jersey firm of lawyers successively as assistant to the Probate, Trust and Company Manager and as a Conveyancing Administrator.

Before moving to the Channel Islands, Mrs Manning was Secretary to the Managing Director of a shipping agent based in Marseilles, before being promoted to the position of Head of the Legal Department.

Mrs Manning was educated in France and completed bilingual secretarial courses in Paris and Marseilles.

Ms. Witter joined La Fayette as Marketing Assistant in June 2008. As part of the Marketing Team she is responsible for production and distribution of the La Fayette Newsletter and other marketing materials. She is also responsible for the maintenance of, and granting access to the La Fayette Website. Ms Witter is Personal Assistant to the Chairman and Executive Director.

Mr Joseph Naayem joined La Fayette as Head of European Research in May 2008. From 2004 to 2008, Joseph worked for Harcourt Investment Consulting in Zurich where he was a director  of Investment Research covering Long Short Equity strategies. From February 2006 he also managed the Belmont (Lux) Long Short Equity fund of fund with $200m under management. Prior to Harcourt, Joseph worked as an Equity research analyst covering the European Consumer Goods sector at Morgan Stanley and UBS in London. Joseph graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in Accounting and Finance in 1999 and is a CFA Charterholder.

 

 

Ms. Thais Batista joined La Fayette as a research analyst responsible for covering LatAm and Asian hedge funds. From 2006 to 2008, she worked in the research side of Claritas Investments, covering hedge funds in a broad geographic scope. Prior to Claritas, Ms. Batista worked at Unibanco Asset Management in Brazil from 2002 to 2006, where she participated in the structuring of the Fund of Funds team which soon became the second largest Fund of Funds in Brazil. Subsequently, she became responsible for the platform of offshore funds, researching, selecting and monitoring hedge funds globally. She was also the Portfolio Manager of a fund of Brazilian Hedge Funds from its inception. Ms. Batista started working on 1999 in the FX proprietary trading desk of the Inter-American Express bank in Brazil. She holds a BA degree in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Brazil and Masters in Finance from London Business School.