Johnson Wu

Before joining Quantbot, Johnson was a board member at a private investment partnership involved in equity arbitrage trading in Europe, and a founding member of the core automated options market-making group at Liquid Capital Markets. Prior to that, Johnson was the head of QSA-Asia at Merrill Lynch, specializing in quantitative statistical-arbitrage strategic investments and electronic trading in the Asia region. Johnson has also held positions in various investment banks such as, a member of the Morgan Stanley ETL proprietary trading group, and a regional head of equity derivatives technology in both UBS and Morgan Stanley in New York and Hong Kong. Johnson was an aerospace research engineer by training, but later moved to the financial industry at Barings Securities and Lehman Brothers in London. Johnson is also involved in entrepreneurial startups in the Asia region. Johnson holds a B.Eng in Energy Engineering, a M.Sc. in Computer Science, a Certificate in Financial Engineering and a MSSc in Global Political Economy.