FairXchange Names R&D Head

FairXchange, part of United Fintech, has named Will Holt as chief research and development officer as it seeks build out its liquidity management and data services.

Holt has been consulting since leaving hedge fund ExodusPoint Capital Management in September 2022, where he was a portfolio manager. Prior to that he spent seven years at Tudor Group, also as a portfolio manager, having joined from JCH Capital Management, a firm he co-founded and worked at for almost a decade. Holt started his career at Goldman Sachs in statistical arbitrage.

“[Will’s] deep knowledge of market microstructure combined with his impressive track record in the hedge fund industry make him the ideal person to take our research programme forward,” says Guy Hopkins, founder of FairXchange. “We have a number of very exciting new products in the pipeline, building on the strong technical foundation we have put in place over the past five years, so Will joins us at the perfect time to further increase our momentum.”

Holt adds, “Guy and I have fostered a professional relationship spanning many years; my expertise lies in the buy-side and Guy’s on the sell-side. FairXchange’s Horizon, with its robust infrastructure, paves the way for discussions that, from first-hand knowledge, profoundly influence execution performance.”