Brevan Howard hired itself a senior network engineer from Bridgewater
How's it going in technology at hedge fund Brevan Howard? Last time we looked, Brevan had been churning its tech team under CTO Mike Sanders in the wake of whose arrival around nine senior technology figures had left.
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Since then, things seem to have stabilized a bit. There have been unconfirmed suggestions of a crackdown on leaks to the media and the news has since been predominantly positive. Ben Souter arrived from BlueCrest as head of front office technology in March. Valdo Durrleman, a top strat from Eisler (not strictly a technologist) arrived in January. Tim Mace arrived from Man Group to be head of AI last November.
Now Brevan has made another big tech hire. Mannoj Jammu Melwani joined from Bridgewater as a senior network engineer. Brevan Howard declined to comment and it's not clear whether Mannoj is Brevan's most senior network guy, but he spent eight and a half years running network systems at Bridgewater and 12 years at Citi before that. He is senior.
Mannoj will be based in New York. Brevan has also been building a technology team in India, and hiring and firing a handful of people in Abu Dhabi, where the office is currently at capacity. Last year, a contract software engineer in India who was not offered a permanent role sent an email to senior staff and the technology team saying "Remember your wordly designations position of power, does not allow you to boost your temporary ego, which could be drained into ashes (sic)."
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