Mark Cathersides

• Launched and managed a 100% self-funded proprietary trading operation specializing in European Fixed Income and index options.
• Strategy Evolution: Engineered a successful pivot from automated high-frequency trading to a medium-term strategic approach, leveraging in-house developed analytical tools.
• Full-Cycle Operations: Directed all operational pillars, including capital allocation, risk mitigation, HR, and legal/accounting frameworks for the SME.
• Crypto Derivatives: Spearheaded the firm's entry into digital assets, executing sophisticated options and futures strategies on the Deribit exchange.

• Provided strategic investment and oversight for a successful vegan enterprise in Central Amsterdam.

• Led the European Bond Option trading desk through the global financial crisis, managing liquidity for Bund, Bobl, Schatz, and Euribor options.

Part of the European Bond options market making team

Set up from scratch the London office of this Chicago based operation. Part of a team that traded European Bond options.

Founding partner and investor in this multi-asset, multi=strategy, proprietary trading firm. I ran the volatility arbitrage desk, covering UK, German, Italian and French equity and index products, with focus on volatility dispersion across all 4 countries

Amikon Investments was a proprietary trading firm focused on equity arbitrage, M&A and relative value trading. My trading role was in the relative value desk which had it's main focus on European and US index futures. I devised and traded several successful strategies which focused on time-based reoccurring themes.

German Bond options trader, in charge of a 4 man floor team after one year. Then started the single stock option team on the floor, including implementing the pricing model into the in-house Trading Platform