Robert Rice is Chief Executive of OCCAM. After graduating from Oxford in 1970, he pioneered the use of computers in corporate finance. In 1981 he moved to the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, advising on their portfolio and the performance of their external managers. In 1987 he became Managing Director of Baring Quantitative Management. In 1989 he joined QUANTEC as Director of Investment Technology, and was responsible for marketing, client support and consultancy worldwide. He founded OCCAM in 1993, but still finds time to lecture on financial technology, and is a director both of INQUIRE UK and INQUIRE Europe, organisations dedicated to the sponsoring and dissemination of quantitative investment research at universities and business schools in the UK and Europe respectively.
Chris Galley joined OCCAM having acted an external consultant for some years. He has been closely involved with the development of OCCAM's PAC (Probability Adjusted Cashflow) module and continues to be the lead developer. Chris has an MA in Computer Science from Christ's College, Cambridge and an MBA from the University of Edinburgh. After working for QUANTEC Investment Technology in London in the 1980s, he moved to Edinburgh, where he set up Cedalion, a software development and consultancy company (and MS Gold Partner), advising clients in the banking and finance sectors. Having sold Cedalion, he worked with a number of spinout companies from Edinburgh University as external consultant and CEO. He is now based in France, and continues to advise companies in Scotland, England and France.
Kieran Park joined OCCAM in 2010 as a Developer. He holds a First Class (Hons) Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Brunel University and is responsible for the development of POW! and its mathematical functions.
Steven Lovelock joined OCCAM in 2010 as a Developer. He holds a First Class (Hons) Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Kings College London. Steven works on the development and maintenance of POW! and our up coming free utility software.
Zhaoqian Yu joined OCCAM in 2011 for his year in industry as part of a Computer Science Degree at Brunel University specialising in Software Engineering. His focus is assisting with upgrading code to newer development environments as well as helping to shape new software.
Professor Charles Ward advises on Property and Statistical Methods. He is Professor of Property Investment and Finance at the University of Reading.
Edward Rice advises on special projects. He graduated in History from Christ Church, Oxford, and holds a Diploma in Direct Marketing from the IDM, and an MBA from INSEAD where he was Louis Franck scholar, studying on both the Fontainebleau and Singapore campuses. From 1999 - 2005 he was at Ogilvy Worldwide, where as Account Director he was responsible for accounts such as CISCO, IBM and Lotus.
Alex Pigault is Senior Vice President, Research and Asset Allocation, at Blue Oak Capital, one of the most successful of the new breed of Fund of Hedge Fund Managers. He was previously head of client services at OCCAM, and as such is uniquely qualified - when his new role permits - to advise how we can best meet emerging client needs. Alex previously headed the quantitative research team, across all asset classes, for Barclays Private Clients in London and between 1996 and 1998 worked with Deutsche Bank AM and BNP Paribas AM in the multi-management space.