Purpose-Built Alternatives

Mr. Resch is a senior member of the portfolio management team, he helps both retail and institutional clients build well- balanced, diversified, and non-correlated portfolios. His insights into alternative investments and portfolio management have been featured in numerous financial publications, including The Wall Street Journal, CTA Intelligence, and Commodities Now.

Before joining IASG & Le Mans Trading LLC, Mr. Resch was a Commodity Trader at Lind-Waldock. As part of a team of traders, he was responsible for trading liquid contracts with a focus on systematic trading. In March of 2015, Mr. Resch co-founded IASG Alternatives LLC, a boutique broker dealer offering hedge funds and managed futures funds to qualified investors.

Mr. Jonkheer is responsible for business development and fostering connections with other managed futures industry professionals. In March of 2015, Mr. Jonkheer co-founded IASG Alternatives LLC, a boutique broker dealer offering hedge funds and managed futures funds to qualified investors.

Mr. Jonkheer insights into the managed futures industry have been featured in leading financial publications and online outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Michael Covel, and CTA Intelligence. Prior to joining IASG & Le Mans Trading LLC, Mr. Jonkheer has spent over 12 years as a sales and marketing executive.

Mr. Resch operates Le Mans investor relations and serves as the primary point of contact at the firm for all existing and prospective investors.

In that capacity, Mr. Resch spearheads various business development partnerships for the firm in collaboration with Le Mans Trading management.

Mark W. Adams serves as the Risk Manager for Le Mans Trading LLC, where he oversees the firm’s integrated risk management framework. He is responsible for monitoring market and liquidity risk across all strategies, enforcing strict risk limits, and contributing to capital allocation decisions through quantitative analysis. Mr. Adams is also a Portfolio Manager for The Hyperion Fund LLC, a registered CPO and NFA member.

Previously, he was the Assistant Portfolio Manager and Chief Quantitative Officer for Warrington GP, an affiliate of Warrington Asset Management, which he joined in 2002. His career began in the Management Analyst Program at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Mr. Adams holds a BBA with a triple major in Finance, Management, and International Business from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business. He maintains Series 3, 7, 30, 31, 63, and 65 licenses.

Willy Snellen is a Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for trading the intraday derivatives contrarian strategy.

Willy has been trading the financial markets since 1988. After earning his Bachelor degree at Nijenrode University in the Netherlands in 1987, Willy started his career as a Foreign Exchange Trader at Banque Nationale de Paris Amsterdam, followed by Citibank in Frankfurt.

In 1998 Willy founded a proprietary trading company, in which he invested own capital combined with funds from two other trading companies. His trading style is based on a contrarian (mean reversion) strategy, with special focus on intraday derivatives trading.

Colette Burke assist Le Mans Trading and our third party affiliates with our financial reporting, fund audits, and regulatory compliance to ensure accuracy and transparency for our investors.

Previously, Colette was an accounting associate at Knight Capital Group, a full-service Futures Commission Merchant that provided execution and clearing services in listed futures and options on all major exchanges. Before that, she was a brokerage execution specialist at Penson Futures and an operations and accounting manager at Chicago Futures Group, a futures and options execution firm for floor traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Colette holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Illinois State University. She is a member of Women in Listed Derivatives (WILD), a global organization dedicated to the advancement of women in the derivatives industry.

Jiangtao Du is the Principal and Portfolio Manager for the Directional Spread Strategy. Mr. Du graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992 with a B.S & Computer Science Degree. Mr. Du continued his education at Harvard University, where he graduated with a PhD in Statistics/Cognate Field: Finance in 1998.

Mr. Du began his career as a portfolio manager in 1998 at JPMorgan Chase. After leaving JPM Chase in 2006, Mr. Du went on to spend the next 7 years as a portfolio manager and analyst, with firms Deutsche Bank, Capula Investment Management, and TD Securities. In 2013 Mr. Du decided to take his experience from these firms and ultimately create the Directional Spread Strategy. Mr. Du has managed or been an active participant in $2 billion of alternative investment assets throughout his career to date.

Scot Billington is the Principal and Portfolio Manager for the Volatility Capture Strategy. Mr. Billington worked as an assistant trader for Bradford & Co., Incorporated, a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) and division of J. C. Bradford & Co. from July 1993 until May 1999 when he began forming CCM. At J.C. Bradford he was responsible for executing client orders, advising clients, and developing systems.

Beginning in April of 2002, Mr. Billington worked for Ronin Capital, an Option Trading Investment Company at the Chicago Board Options Exchange where his main function was making markets in the OEX 100 Index options market. Mr. Billington was a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange and a Market Maker at Ronin Capital in OEX 100 Index options until January 4, 2005.

Maik Kaminski is a Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for trading and developing the Aquantum Active Range strategy.

Before joining Aquantum in January 2021, Maik held various positions at CCPM AG Group, where he was also one of the main shareholders. During this time, Maik developed, among other things, the “Athena” options strategy, which has been actively traded since 2002. From 2003 to the beginning of 2005, Maik was also responsible for implementing the risk management systems, which were programmed according to his specifications.

In 2012, Maik moved to the Supervisory Board of CCPM AG, where he served until 2019. Since the end of 2015, Maik has been working on new options-based trading strategies, mainly on the basis of the S&P 500.

Maik trained as a banker at Sparkasse Hagen and holds a US Series 3 license and the Eurex Trader certificate.

Brendan Mulvany is an experienced Head of Execution, with over 30 years of trading experience.

Brendan started his trading career with Dresdner Bank and Bank of America, specialising in the derivatives, futures and options markets. This led to Brendan building highly successful trading operations at the forefront of the investment industry, from the trading floor of the LIFFE EXCHANGE, to the desks of member firms KYTE FUTURES, REFCO, GHF FUTURES and MAREX.

As Head of Execution, Brendan leads all aspects of the Global Alpha strategy implementation.

Gareth is a mathematician by profession and passion and is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA). Gareth has a trading, research and investment management career built over 20 years, reading pure mathematics at Glasgow and Strathclyde University.

Gareth started out his professional career in the City of London, heading up the derivatives desk at Duncan Duckett. He then joined Harmonic Capital Partners – a leading global macro hedge fund – where he was instrumental in its growth during that period from $10m to $250m in assets under management.

Gareth designed and developed the Global Alpha strategy from 2003 to 2006 and, as Investment Manager, continues to run the strategy and is responsible for its on-going research and development.