We recently realized that the path to hedge funds is not necessarily the same, and the same is true for the path to high-frequency trading (HFT). One of his companies that recently entered the field came from a banking background, and another was looking to sideline in the gaming industry.
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Keith Newton joined Susquehanna this week as a software engineer in the Apex Trading Group. Although he has been with Bloomberg for the past nine years, he was also the CEO of independent game studio I-Novae, where he served for 13 years. The company released his Infinity: Battlescape, a space combat game in procedurally generated star systems, for early access in 2019.
Newton also worked in aerospace for Honeywell and in engine programming for Epic Games. He began his career as a combat engineer in the United States Marine Corps.
Domenico Mangieri also joined Jump Trading this year. His journey is a little more traditional. He also started his external finance career at AI company Altair before joining UBS as an associate director. He then worked on algorithmic trading systems at Morgan Stanley before returning to UBS as director of profit and loss and risk systems.
Mr. Mangieri left his job in investment management more than a decade ago. Since then, he has been Head of European Development at Sun Trading, and spent the past four-and-a-half years at Hudson River Trading.
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