If you're a VP at a bank looking to move into high-frequency trading or hedge funds, now seems like a good time to do so. Many large companies in both sectors are hiring vice presidents in 2024, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley being the two most popular banks.
Hedge funds are busy in New York. Citadel has hired Morgan Stanley vice president Bert Millspaugh as senior operations engineer after six and a half years at the bank. Meanwhile, DE Shaw hired Neha Nasi from Goldman Sachs as a technical product manager. She had been in banking for the same amount of time as Milspaugh, and they both joined the company in the same month, but Nashi had been working in DE Shaw's India operations for a number of years. Logan Chalifour, a data scientist at Morgan Stanley, joined Millennium earlier this year as a data orchestrator.
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In Europe, HFT companies appear to be hiring. Optiver, like Goldman Sachs, is a big fan of his FPGAs and last month hired Goldman FPGA VP Eric Zhao to relocate from Tokyo to Amsterdam. Hudson River Trading has hired another Goldman vice president, Anastasia Melnyk, as a data engineer in London.
In New York, Charlie Bashford Chukula, who spent the past nine and a half years in Morgan Stanley's equity derivatives pre-trading and pricing team, was hired by Chicago Trading Company last month.
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