Company

EDWARD BAKER (Chairman)

Until April of 2007 Ed was the Chief Investment Officer of Emerging Markets Growth Equities at AllianceBernstein. Ed joined Alliance Capital in 1995 and served in various roles during his tenure, including CEO of Alliance Capital Limited, Alliance's London based subsidiary. Ed assumed responsibility for the Emerging Markets Growth business in early 1998 and built this into a $10 billion AUM business before his departure.

Prior to joining Alliance in 1995, Mr. Baker worked for Barra, Inc., an investment technology firm which he joined in 1978.

He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of The Investment Management Consultants Association and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Investment Consulting. He is also the Chairman of the Equity Advisory Group of the Institute of International Finance, and a Trustee for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Mr. Baker earned a B.A. from the University of South Florida and an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Regents Fellow. He has also completed work towards a Ph.D. in both mathematics and finance. Ed joined the Cambridge Strategy in April 2007.

PETER HENRICKS (Chief Executive Officer)

Peter holds a BA from Flinders University of South Australia and a Masters of Project Management from the University of Technology, Australia and is a doctoral candidate at the ISM in Paris.

He began his career at Shearson Lehman where he was responsible for trading short dated treasury instruments and rose to senior dealer in Hong Kong. He was subsequently promoted to merchant banking head in Australia with responsibility for treasury, stock broking, foreign exchange and fixed income.    In 1993 Peter joined Alliance Capital as CEO of various subsidiaries throughout Asia. In this position he was responsible for leading the teams that managed Far East equity portfolios. He oversaw research, office administration, compliance, institutional marketing and retail sales. During this period, Peter founded offices for Alliance in Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and negotiated the J.V. in China with Ping-An.   

Under his leadership the Australian offices became fully integrated fixed income and equities management operations that grew to 100 employees, with over USD 28 billion in assets. In addition Hong Kong’s retail and institutional assets grew to exceed USD 5.5 billion and the Taiwan office became one of the leading retail fund distributors within Alliance and in Taiwan.   

Prior to the establishment of Cambridge Strategy, Peter founded RPMH and AJIA-RPMH Inc which manages global and Asian equities. Peter works with the Bank of International Settlements on financial stability in developing markets.

RUSSELL THOMPSON (Chief Investment Officer)

Russell has a BSc(Hons) in Economics, and is a member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers, having passed his ACT exams with distinction. Russell began his career at Midland Montagu in 1989 as a business analyst, and quickly moved to being a Derivatives and Money Market Trader assuming responsibility for trading and hedging the Medium Term Sterling Mortgage Swap Book, and the Latin American Brady Bond Portfolio.   

In 1995 Russell joined HSBC Markets in Hong Kong as a Forward/Proprietary trader. He progressed to Senior Derivatives Trader, successfully creating and running the Non Deliverable Forwards desk through the turbulent Asian Crisis, and producing record profits for the Bank.   

In 1998 Russell joined AIG Trading as a senior Trader, and was quickly promoted to Head of Trading for Asia. This included responsibility for all aspects of Currency and Interest Rate Trading in AIG Inc. HK, including Trading, Risk Management, Personnel, and Compliance. AIG Trading Inc HK was a 1st Tier Market Maker in Asia, and was focused primarily on Asian Emerging markets business.  

In 2001 Russell resigned from AIG and moved to North America and co-founded two Companies, Platinum Destinations, a successful luxury lodging company based in Whistler, BC and the Perennia Fund, a closed-end Cayman Islands based private offshore Fund specialising in real estate investments.

In 2003 Russell joined RPMH LLP. as a consultant to develop a Foreign Exchange platform, and then co-founded The Cambridge Strategy (Asset Management) Limited which began trading in 2004.

DEREK DOUPE (Director of Marketing )

Derek joined the Cambridge Strategy in February 2008 and is the firm’s Director of Marketing.  Prior to joining the firm, he worked at Victoria Capital (UK) Limited as the firm’s Marketing Director and has acted as a consultant to several family offices in respect of their hedge fund investments. 

Previously, Derek held a number of senior roles within alternative asset management firms; including Schroders Investment Management where he was Executive Director responsible for the firm’s global hedge fund programme.  Prior to Schroders, Derek was Director, Alternative Investments at Russell Investment Group (Frank Russell Co.) where he was a founding member of the firm’s hedge fund programme and was responsible for Russell’s non-US hedge fund activities. 

Prior to Russell, Derek was an Investment Consultant at William M Mercer Investment Consulting in London where he headed the firm’s research into hedge funds for the UK and Europe and acted as investment consultant to a number of pension funds.  Derek initially worked in Mercer’s Australian investment consulting practice. 

Derek graduated from Monash University, Australia, with a BEc (Hons) and holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.  He has also completed work towards a Masters of Economics from Monash University, Australia.

ANDREW PETHER (Senior Portfolio Manager)

In 1993 Andrew joined Societe Generale in Sydney trading within its foreign exchange group, resigning in 2000 as Head of Foreign Exchange. He moved to Hong Kong to develop and optimise his strategic trading methodology before relocating to Europe.

In 2002 he rejoined SG group in London as a senior proprietary trader within its principal  currency and commodity desk focusing on Medium and Long term positional financial modelling and  facilitating  futures and Cash risk for the CTA and Hedge Fund community.

In 2003 Andrew left investment banking joining RPMH LLP as a portfolio manager. In this role he traded using his methodology trading G10 and Asian Currency mandates for the fund.

Andrew was most recently responsible for strategic trading at JP Morgan, London within its Global Currency and Commodity Group (GCCG) until joining The Cambridge Strategy where he serves as senior portfolio manager of systematic trading.

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