We are an international and experienced team of specialist advisors, analysts and fund managers with a reputation for excellence and original thought. Each of us joined Signet because we desired a more entrepreneurial and independent environment in which to advise our clients and deliver our hard-earned skills.
Responsible for the governance, management, strategic direction, and control of Signet, our leadership team works in concert with business support functions to ensure smooth day-to-day operational management and integrity.
Andrew began with Lloyds Private Banking in 1994 as a portfolio manager and client advisor in its UHNW team. In 2002, he moved to the private client division of Williams de Broe, where he oversaw funds grow from £250m to £8b. He was appointed Head of the Investec Private Office in 2014. Andrew joined Brown Shipley Private Bank in 2019, where he created and oversaw the Private Banking Team. Most recently, Andrew worked as Director at The Hottinger Group, where he advised clients and families.
Dmitry Evenko has more than 25 years of experience of working in financial industry. In 2015 - 2018 he was the Senior Partner and the CEO of Signet Group. In 2000 - 2014 Dmitry was the Chairman of the Board and the CEO of Marcuard Spectrum, a hedge fund with strong emerging markets focus. Вetween 1995 and 2000 he was the Head of Capital Markets and the President of Fleming UCB, the Russian subsidiary of Robert Fleming and Co. Dmitry has economic degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University and Executive MBA from Skolkovo School of Management.
Nikos Anastasiades has almost 20 years of experience in regulatory compliance function units within the financial markets. He has held previous roles at Lamda Development SA, Société Générale Bank & Trust as well as Argus Stockbrokers Ltd. Nikos holds a BSc in
Economics, a BSc in Business Economics and an MA in International Business, as well as AML Certificate, an Advanced Certificate and a Certificate A1 of the Central Bank of Greece and HCMC, and an Equities Trader Certificate (ATHEX).
Alexey joined the Company in 2018. Alexey is a Chief Operations Officer of Signet and executive director of Signet Capital Management (CY). Alexey has over 17 years of experience in financial markets, especially focused on hedge funds and brokerage business. From 2006 to 2009, he led the operations of the Marcuard Spectrum Group, which manages hedge funds with a focus on CIS Region. From 2009 to 2012 he worked as the operational director of Spectrum Partners – Asset management structure of Marshall Capital group and during that period was promoted to head of execution. Between 2015 and 2018 he headed dealing on own account department and later brokerage in Fintailor Investments. In 2017 - 2018 Alexey was head of brokerage in Wise Wolves Finance. Alexey holds a Bachelor degree in Finance and Credit, and Financial Management from the Russian Economic School and the Institute of Stock Markets and Management. Alexey has Advanced Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission Certificate.
Asset Management
Our autonomous investment teams run a range of actively managed, thematic funds. The business is structured to allow them to focus on their portfolios while a best-in-class operational structure works on everything else.
Anatoly Fedorov is a Portfolio Manager and the Head of Equities of Signet Group. Anatoly manages Signet’s global leaders portfolio and has experience working with Long-short Equity and Merger Arbitrage strategies. Prior to joining the Investment Manager in February 2018, he worked as a Vice President at J.P. Morgan in EMEA Diversified Industrials Practice. Here he conducted financial and valuation analysis, execution, project management and due diligence on large scale M&A transactions (for example from 2016: Philips Lighting IPO and SGD Pharma sell-side). Prior to his employment at J.P. Morgan, Anatoly was an equity research analyst at Genesis Investment Management. During his time there, he executed financial analysis, valuation and communication with corporate management for emerging markets.
Serge Umansky is a Managing Director of Signet FFF Capital AG. He is a specialist in absolute return strategies with 12 years of experience in numerical analysis in engineering and over 25 years of investment and risk management. From 1977, he headed the research laboratory at the Ukranian Academy of Sciences in Kiev, focusing on numerical analysis and developing numerical models and software for aerospace applications. In 1989, he was hired by the Germany-based EWCO GmbH where he led implementation and support of financial management systems for corporate clients in Central Europe. In 1991, he joined WIR Corporation in the United States where he designed and developed computerised trading models and software tools for quantitative trading strategies. From 1993, he was appointed CIO of New Capital Markets in Washington, DC where he developed investment strategies, managed multi asset funds and designed proprietary portfolio management software. He then moved into a consultancy role with ICG consulting, L.L.C. for international debt restructuring advisory, private equity investments and research. In 1999, he joined Signet Research and Advisory as CIO where he was responsible for portfolio construction and investments selection, risk management, as well as quantitative and qualitative portfolio analysis. From 2016, he co-founded a number of Signet subsidiary advisory companies, Whiteridge Advisor SA in 2016 and Metadvice Limited in 2018. In January 2020, he was appointed CEO of Signet Capital Management Limited and acts as a head of Healthcare Investments team at Signet Global.
Natalia joined Signet in 2020 as Investment Director taking part in managing and developing growing portfolio of healthcare investments in both private and public companies. She has extensive experience in deal sourcing, due diligence, valuation, and execution of life sciences investment opportunities as well as in managing and developing portfolios of biotechnology companies at various stages of development.
Prior to Signet, from 2017 Natalia focused on early-stage private life sciences companies in Europe working within entrepreneurial biotech ecosystem in Europe with academic start-ups and technology transfer offices and contributing to early-stage investment rounds. She also founded and actively fund raised for a seed fund dedicated to building early-stage life sciences ventures.
Prior to healthcare investing, Natalia was a Director at UBS Investment Bank from 2015 where she led structured financing transactions for institutional investors. Her expertise spans various financial products and asset classes with focus on global emerging markets. Her clients include extensive network of European institutional investors such as pension funds, hedge funds and real money asset managers. Natalia started her career in investment banking at Citi in London in 2009 on analyst graduate program and worked in Capital Markets Origination and Global Markets divisions moving on to VTB Capital in 2012.
Natalia holds a BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College London, MSc Management with a focus on pharmaceutical industry from London School of Economics, and an MEng in Food Technology Engineering from Moscow State University of Applied Biotechnology.
Natalia is fluent in English, Russian, Italian, French and speaks conversational German.
Tushar Jian has 11 years of experience as an equity research analyst with a strong knowledge of analysing financial statements, corporate strategy and industry trends to identify medium- to long-term investment opportunities. He has a strong analytical and quantitative background (MBA from INSEAD, Computer Science from NUS, CFA) which is complemented with around 10 years of equity research experience at Goldman Sachs and the Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Nicolas Rowe is the Head of Risk Management for Signet. He has been a quantitative portfolio manager for over ten years, most recently at Winton Capital and WorldQuant where he traded global macro futures and equity market neutral strategies with alphas ranging from intraday to multi-week. He was the CIO at 1OAK Capital where he traded multiple systematic accounts, managed a multi-manager portfolio and built risk management tools. Prior to 1OAK he was a quantitative researcher and trader at GSA Capital. Before joining GSA he was a trader at Societe Generale and FX strategy researcher at JP Morgan. He graduated from Oxford University in Mathematical Sciences and earned his MSc. in Mathematics & Finance at Imperial College, London.
WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Our Wealth Management Team bring the resources, insight and dedication to guide our clients through every step of their wealth management journey.
Robert Marquardt was the Founder of the Signet Group of Companies in the early 1990s and is today Chairman of Signet Wealth Management. Robert, as hedge fund CIO, has managed and advised on investment strategy and hedge fund / alternative investment selection globally since 1994. Through Signet’s offices in Switzerland, London and Hong Kong the group managed and advised on hedge fund selection with an asset level in excess of $3.5 billion at the peak. Prior to founding Signet, Robert was the Managing Director of Chase Private Banking in Luxembourg and a Credit Officer of Chase Manhattan Bank in the Middle East during a 12-year career at the Chase. Robert has deep knowledge of the opportunities and risks in different global economic and market environments across fixed income, equity, commodity and currency strategies through different economic cycles and holding structures.
Justin has over 20 years of experience in financial services, management consulting, logistics, energy and infrastructure investment. Prior to joining Signet, he co-founded Inova Capital, a commercial multi-family office platform that was later absorbed by Signet. Justin is also the founder of IAM, a boutique management consultancy firm and co-founded Cassia, a GCC-based merger and acquisitions advisory platform. Justin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. John’s College, St. John’s University, New York.
Harold has over 17 years of experience in operations, financial services, management consulting and family office management. Prior to joining Signet, he co-founded Inova Capital, was formerly a managing partner at IAM, founded Nyne Holdings (a Singapore-based commercial multi-family office platform), ran an independent financial advisory consultancy in New York and was previously Managing Director at the BMB Group. Harold holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Edinburgh.
Piers has over 22 years of experience in the financial services industry, specialising in multi-asset class investment management. He has held previous roles as the CIO of Dark Star Asset Management, the Head of Discretionary Portfolio Management for Plurimi Wealth, and as a senior investment manager for Barclays Private Bank / Wealth. He is a BSc financial economics graduate from Brunel University, holds the CISI FCSI designation and is a former intelligence officer in the British Army.
Rob has over 17 years of experience in the financial services industry, specialising in multi-asset class investment management. His previous roles include the Head of Research at Dark Star Asset Management, the Head of Client Portfolios for Plurimi Wealth, a senior investment manager for Barclays Wealth and a deals advisory manager at PwC. Rob holds Honours Degrees in Finance and Accounting from the University of Cape Town, has qualified as a Chartered Accountant (SA) and is a CFA Charterholder.
Owen has 19 years of financial services experience, specialising in Private Banking and Wealth Management for Ultra High Net Worth clients and families based primarily in the Middle East, Asia and the United Kingdom. He has played a key role as a trusted advisor to his clients, facilitating and coordinating their international assets. He has worked for HSBC Private Bank in London and Hong Kong, Barclays Private Bank and most recently EFG Private Bank. Owen holds the CISI FCSI designation.
BUSINESS SUPPORT
The backbone of Signet, our Business Support Team challenges the status quo by anticipating coming opportunities and fuelling our collaborative spirit.
Daria holds Honours Degrees in Economics and Sociology as well as an M.A. Degree in the Psychology of Personnel Management from the State Education Institution of Higher Professional Education. Today, she heads up Signet’s investor relations and client services, supporting our customers across our full product range.
Vish Shetty is an Operations Analyst at Signet Global. Prior to Signet, Vish studied Mathematics at the University of Warwick where he recently graduated achieving a first-class BSc degree.