The Management Team
The Florin Court Capital management team have worked together for years - before and after founding the firm. Highly experienced, the team has worked with some of the best-known names in the hedge fund and broader financial services industry.
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Dr. Douglas Greenig – CEO and CIO
Doug Greenig has 30 years of experience in portfolio management and trading. From 2012 to 2014, he was Chief Risk Officer of Man/AHL and also headed the Portfolio Management Group, beginning in 2013. Doug was jointly responsible (with the CIO) for the evaluation and approval of all investment strategies and trading systems. Prior to AHL, Doug was a Managing Director working as a quantitative portfolio manager at the Fortress Investment Group beginning in 2006. From 2001 to 2006, Doug was Head of Agency Mortgage Trading at RBS Greenwich Capital. He also managed an 8 person quantitative proprietary trading desk at the firm, beginning in 2000. From 1993 to 1999, Doug worked at Goldman Sachs in New York, as a fixed-income proprietary trader. Prior to Goldman, Doug was a Senior Consultant at BARRA.
Doug earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with an A.B. in Economics, Summa Cum Laude. He was awarded the Wilson Prize for his thesis, which influenced Fischer Black’s late work on general equilibrium theory. Doug taught Portfolio and Risk Management at the Courant Institute at NYU in 2010.
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Dr. David Denison – Deputy CIO
David Denison has 21 years of hedge fund experience, following his earlier academic career. Prior to joining FCC, David was the Head of FX at Man/AHL, which he had joined in 2008 as a senior quantitative researcher. As Head of FX, he was responsible for the modelling and investment management of AHL’s multi-billion dollar FX portfolio. Prior to AHL, David worked at IV Capital (2006-2008) and Gloucester Research (2002-2006) focusing on quantitative research in equities.
Prior to joining Gloucester Research, David lectured in Statistics for five years at Imperial College, London, focusing on modern computational statistical methods. David holds a Ph.D. from Imperial College, London, and his 1997 dissertation won the Savage Award. He gained a first-class mathematics degree from Oxford University in 1994. He is the author of “Bayesian Methods for Nonlinear Classification and Regression”, Wiley, 2002.
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Anthony Vinitsky – COO and CRO
Anthony Vinitsky has 24 years of experience in asset management. Anthony was Head of Investment Operations at Man/AHL where he worked from 2006 to 2014. He was primarily focused on the implementation of new strategies and new markets, as well as day-to-day operations and risk monitoring for quantitative strategies across multiple asset classes. From 2004 to 2006, Anthony worked at Man Group Plc., where he was responsible for the operational set-up of managed accounts for a fund of funds business. From 2001 to 2004, he was a Fund Controller at Tiger Management, and from 1999 to 2001, he was a Senior Associate at PwC’s hedge fund practice.
Anthony graduated with BSc in Accounting from Rutgers University and is a CFA® charterholder and a Certified Public Accountant
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Peter Hollobon – CTO
Peter Hollobon has 24 years of experience in technology at hedge funds and an investment bank. Prior to joining Florin Court, Peter worked as a developer at Renshaw Bay. Before that, he worked as a front office developer at CQS and spent 9 years in various roles at KBC Financial Products and KBC Alternative Investment Management.
Peter graduated with a BEng in Computer Science from The University of York.
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Mike de Groot – Head of Product Management
Mike de Groot has over 20 years of experience in asset management. Before joining Florin Court, Mike was an Institutional Sales Director at BlueCove, Senior Vice President at Two Sigma, and Client Portfolio Manager at Man/AHL from 2006 to 2013.
Mike graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia, and is a CFA® charterholder.