Charles McGarraugh has over 20 years’ experience in the finance industry and is a proven finance professional with deep trading and business building experience across both traditional FICC and digital asset markets. Charles was appointed Chief Investment Officer and Principal of Altis Partners in April 2020. From 2000 to 2016, he served in various trading roles at Goldman Sachs. Following a relocation in London in 2009, Goldman named Charlie to its exclusive partnership in 2012, as a result of his leadership of the successful build-out of its market-leading European mortgages business. In 2014 he assumed a senior role in Goldman’s commodity department as Global Head of Metals trading and refocused on commodity markets. Charles left the bank in mid-2016 to join algorithmic sports trading company Stratagem Technologies in order to focus more deeply on machine learning and predictive analytics. There he served as Chairman and CEO until its sale to Blockchain.com in late 2018. He was Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Markets at Blockchain.com from 2018 until September 2022. He holds a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Yale University, and graduated magna cum laude with distinction.

Stephen Hedgecock has worked in the financial industry for over 35 years with experience in corporate operations, implementing systematic trading programs, derivatives dealing, and business development. Since 2005 he has been a Principal of Altis Partners (Jersey) Limited (“Altis”), a prominent Jersey based Quantitative Macro Fund Manager, serving on the Executive board and individual Risk and Investment Committees. From 2000 until 2005 the same role was held at Altis Partners Limited in London. Current Directorships in Jersey include being a board Director at two funds organised by Altis, the Altis Master Fund ICC and Blockchain.com Asset Management ICC. In addition, an Executive board position has been held since March 2019 at Revoke Limited (including Revoke USA Limited from September 2019) a technology company offering services in personal data protection. Previous Directorships have been held with the AVI Frontier Fund LLP an investment vehicle participating in Vietnamese IPOs, Stratagem Technologies Limited, an algorithmic sports trading company, and in Gibraltar he served on the board of Hilltop Funds PCC Limited which invested in a wide array of Hedge Funds from late 2009 until early 2017. Prior to joining Altis Partners he held Directorship positions at QCM Limited and Sabre Fund Management Ltd both focusing on futures trading strategies.

Alex Brunwin has 30 years’ experience in the financial sector, with particular focus on technology and systematic strategies. Since 2000, Alex has been a Director and Principal of Altis Partners, initially at Altis Partners London Limited and then Jersey since 2006 at Altis Partners (Jersey) Limited. Current directorships in Jersey also include cyber security and technology firm Defence Logic and software development business Vertix. In 1998 and 1999 prior to joining Altis Partners (Jersey) Limited, Alex worked as an external consultant for Banque Paribas, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, SBC Warburg Dillon Reed and Link Asset & Securities. He served as Director of Information Technology at Quality Capital Management from 1996 to 1998. From 1994 to 1996 he provided consultancy to Credit Lyonnais, Paine Webber, Midas, UBS and Paribas Capital Markets Tokyo. From 1992 to 1994, Alex was employed as analyst / programmer at Sabre Fund Management, having graduated in 1991 with BSc Hons in Physics from the University of Bristol.