Robert is the prior CEO of Renaissance Technologies (UK) where he ran and managed the London office responsible for the EMEA regions. He started his career in 1997 as a derivatives risk manager at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson – where he first met Dylan Grice - before switching to quantitative strategy/research. He subsequently moved to Citigroup as a quant researcher in the number one ranked team (Institutional Investor survey 2003/4) before joining Aspect Capital as Head of Product Management. He is a graduate of UCL and the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol.