Matt Boyd's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

President & Chief Operating Officer at Numerai. National Capital Markets at Barclays. Barclays was acquired by BlackRock on December 1st, 2009. Equity and Fixed Income Securities Lending Trading at BlackRock from August 2008 to December 2009 (1 year 5 months) in London, United Kingdom. Head of Equity and Fixed Income Securities Lending Trading - EMEA. Lead for quantitative research agenda. Business lead for development of proprietary financing trading platform. Lead for collateral transformation initiative. Streetwise Global Equities Manager from January 2020 to December 2021 (2 years 10 months) in London, United Kingdom. Member of Bank of England Securities Lending and Repo Committee. Board member of Equilend Europe. Member of BlackRock Trading and Liquidity Strategies Leadership Committee. EMEA- Member of BlackRock Corporate Governance Committee. Member of BlackRock Securities Lending and Financing Executive Committee. Head of BlackRock Securities Lending and Financing Counterparty Management Committee. Barclays Global was acquired by BlackRock on December 1st, 2009. Equity and Fixed Income Securities Lending Trading at BlackRock from September 2005 to August 2008 (3 years) in San Francisco Bay Area. International Equity - Desk Head and Trader - Securities Lending. President & Chief Operating Officer at Numerai from April 2017 to January 2020 (2 years 10 months) in San Francisco Bay Area. Machine Learning Global Equity Market Neutral Hedge Fund. Head of the investment management business of Numerai outside of alpha research (investment process, trading, operations, marketing and compliance). Responsible for development of Numerai’s internal investment platform inclusive of the data platform, portfolio optimization, trading/implementation and post trade systems. Recruiting and development of the investment manager’s staff. Primary investor and prospect interface for the fund.

🎓 Education

Matt Boyd has a degree in Data Science, Data Scientist's Tool Kit and R programming from Johns Hopkins University. After completing his undergraduate education in 2016, Matt continued his education at Coursera where he completed a course in equity derivatives: trading and management of vanilla options at London Financial Studies from 2012 to 2012. Additionally, Matt studied at Holland Hall from 1992 to 1996, where he was an International Affairs major. Upon conclusion of his school education, Matt has a BA in International Affairs from Lewis and Clark College.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

President & Chief Operating Officer at NumeraiMatt Boyd is currently a Client Service Associate at Fisher Investments from June 2002 to July 2004 (2 years 2 months) in San Francisco Bay Area. He worked in the Private Equity and Venture Capital space at Barclays Global Investors prior to joining Numerai. His main responsibilities included providing client service and lead project management for dark money private equity and venture capital transactions. He also had lead responsibility for the development of the portfolio management system and the post-trade systems for these transactions.Most recently, Matt was a Business Analyst at Barclays Global Investors from August 2004 to September 2005 (1 year 2 months) in San Francisco Bay Area. He was responsible for handling financial analysis and data entry across all investment products. He also managed the business development and partnerships for the Barclays Global Investors Equity Trading Platform.Matt has also experience in the Treasury and Capital Markets space, having led development of a proprietary financing trading platform for Sensato Investors. He also oversaw the development of collateral optimization and trade documentation negotiation for the Sensato investors platform.Matt also had experience in the Securities Lending and Financing space at Black Rock from December 2009 to May 2015 (5 years 6 months) in London, United Kingdom. He was responsible for oversight of the investment management business of Black Rock, as well as fixed income and prime finance transactions. He also held a lead role in developing Black Rock's global equity market neutrality hedge fund. Matt was responsible for the investment management business of Numerai outside of alpha research (investment process, trading, operations, marketing and compliance), and was responsible for recruiting and developing the investment manager's staff. He was also responsible for the primary investor and prospect interface for the Numerai fund.