A key element to our firm’s success is the background, experience, and skills of our team members. We pride ourselves on our team’s strong roots in software engineering, statistics, and other technical and quantitative fields.
Partner | Chief Executive Officer
Brad co-founded Athena Capital Research in June 2003. He is responsible for overall management and growth of the company, in addition to overseeing research, development, and risk management of investment strategies.
Brad previously was a Managing Director at Tower Research Capital, a highly successful early pioneer in automated electronic trading. He has 10 years of industry experience covering operations, personnel, and portfolio management, as well as development of quantitative trading strategies.
Prior to Tower, Brad attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he attained S.B. (1997) and M.Eng. degrees in Computer Science (1999).
Partner – Asia | Chief Operating Officer / Chief Technology Officer
Kenny joined Athena in 2007. In 2009, Kenny moved to Hong Kong to start the Asia office and currently heads Athena’s Asia business, Athena Capital Research (Asia). Kenny entered the finance industry in 2001 as a software engineer with PFTC Trading, an options trading firm that was a pioneer in the electronic transformation of the options business. Over the course of his tenure, Kenny was eventually responsible for the firm’s software development group and was the architect for their hybrid human-machine algorithmic trading system that traded 2% of US options volume on a daily basis. Prior to starting his career in finance, Kenny was an engineer in the Advanced Graphics Group at Silicon Graphics. Kenny attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he researched embodied intelligent agents at the MIT Media Lab and graduated with S.B (1998) and MEng (1999) degrees in Computer Science.
Partner | Chief Technology Officer
Poul joined Athena in 2009. Poul is head of the software-engineering and trading-operations departments in the U.S. Previously, Poul was the Director of Operations at Athena Capital Research responsible for U.S. trading operations for Athena Capital's HFT strategies. Before joining Athena in 2009, Poul worked at FactSet Research Systems where he was a founding member of the Investment Banking engineering team and managed an international team of engineers in the U.S. and U.K. Poul attended the University of Michigan, where he attained a B.S. in Computer Engineering (2001).