Our Team

Mr. 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.

Mr. Kimple is the Principal and Portfolio Manager for the Tactical Strategy. Mr. Kimple received a BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University and an MBA, with emphasis in Finance and Derivative Securities, from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business.

Mr. Kimple began trading equity and bond positions for his personal account in January 1984, and commodity futures and options in July 1989. In April 1991, Mr. Kimple formally began his career as a trading assistant to a highly successful trader at Shearson Lehman (a predecessor firm to Morgan Stanley Wealth Management), gaining experience in multiple futures and options markets. While working for this renowned options trader and innovator, Mr. Kimple researched, tested and honed his options-based tactical trading strategy which he has utilized now since 1997. Mr. Kimple holds the Series 3, 7 and 63 licenses.

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.

Dr. Tim Lu is the Principal and Portfolio Manager for the Risk Sigma Strategy. Tim Lu graduated from South China University of Technology in 1982 with a degree in Civil Engineering. Tim Lu completed his Master of Science-MS at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1984 before receiving his PhD in Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1990.

Dr. Lu has been a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of California since September 1993, an independent consultant since January 2000. Between September 2011 and December 2016, he was a Staff Consultant of SGH Inc which provides risk evaluation consulting services.

Dr. Lu is a recognized authority in the areas of risk factors assessment, root-cause evaluation, behavioral trending identification, and risk control and mitigation.

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.

Jürg Bühler, a 35-year veteran in the Financial Markets industry, boasts extensive expertise in model development, testing, and the trading of foreign exchange, futures, equities, ETFs, and options. Pioneering early investments in Alternative Investments, he played a pivotal role in supporting CTAs through marketing, consulting, and adept trading and risk management.

As the founder of GVI – Global Vision Investments AG in Switzerland, established in 2008, Bühler developed models for Volatility Trading (both long and short, with hedges in Equity Futures) and an innovative Adaptive Asset Allocation Program. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business Administration in Zürich, Switzerland.

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.