Didier Bench, Chairman,
Didier comes from the world of private equity. He has throughout his career, in Europe as well as the United States, run several firms in the technologic sector (MIPS, Paul Allen Group, Netscape, iMediation, Cartesis). He also participated as partner or president to the management of funds, notably to the Caisse des Dépôts et Placements du Québec. From 2004 to 2007, Didier was the chairman of the company Cartesis sold in 2007 to Business Objects.

Didier holds a Masters in computer sciences and a DESS (Diploma of Superior Specialized Studies) in marketing and finance from the Paris University. He also participated in the EMP of Stanford.

Bruno Calmé, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of D|Bench Futures Ucits
Bruno carried out his whole carrier within the asset management & trading industry. Bruno began his career, in 1995, at GVP Futures as a prop trader. From July 2000 to August 2004, he then continued for his own trading company BYC (Fimat (NewEdge) sponsored). Since September 2004, Bruno has moved to the asset management side for different Asset Management firm such as SWAN Capital Management, Alis Capital Management and more recently for Quantam SA.

Bruno holds a NFA Serie 3 and is graduated from ISG Paris (Institut Supérieur de Gestion).

Frédéric Hatt, Head of D|Bench NewTrend Program,
Frédéric has more than 10 years experience in financial markets. Frédéric worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein starting as an exotic Trader in 2001, and then as an equity and credit derivatives proprietary trader in 2003. From 2005 to 2009, Frédéric led several positions as a portfolio manager in Swiss Re & JPMorgan. From 2009 to 2011, he was a partner at Mereor, a Paris-based hedge fund specialized in credit and risk-arbitrage.

Frédéric holds graduate school major applied mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique (1999) and graduate school in statistics and economy from ENSAE (2001).

Morgan Rossi, Operations & Risk Director,
Morgan, in charge of asset analysis & risk controlling, began his career in 2007 with EADS-Airbus as a financial controller for A380 & A350XWB non-recurring costs. After taking responsibilities in “Power8”, he moved to the financial operation as a hedging analyst to optimize a $15 bn hedging book. Then, Morgan joined D|Bench AI as a Hedge Fund Analyst in May 2009 for different missions in Paris and New York.

Morgan Rossi holds a Master degree in Banking & Finance from “Université de Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne”, a Magister degree of Paris School of Economics (Sorbonne, ENS Ulm, EHESS) and a Master of Econometrics from “Université de Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne”.

Nicolas Pope, Sales & Marketing Director
Nicolas started his carrier at Nyse Euronext NV as Cash Market Operator in charge of ETFs and Small & Mid Caps. Then he led several positions in the Asset Management and HF industry as Asset Manager at Athem SAS, Head of Marketing & Communication at Ines Group LLC and institutional Sales at CPR AM – Amundi Group. Before joining D|Bench AI in 2011, he was Senior Private Banker at HSBC Private Bank.

Nicolas holds a Masters Degree in Business and Management from the EDC Business School and has a Postgraduate Degree in Financial Engineering from the ESLSCA Business School.

Philippe Brosse, Head of Strategic Committee
Philippe carried out his whole career within the group Société Générale. In 1988, after seven years of work as a specialized controller in investment banking, he created and developed the control activity of the investment products of the Société Générale. In 1995, he became the assistant general director of SG Asset Management, where he in particular, created SGAM Alternative Investments; in which as the CEO he saw the general direction from 2003 to 2008.

Philippe Brosse holds a bachelors degree from IEP Paris and obtained a Masters in Economic Sciences from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Michel Fliess, Scientific Advisor
Dr. Michel Fliess is a well known scientist for his remarkable achievements in control theory which are not only quite original from an academic viewpoint but are also widely used in industry. His recent research in collaboration with Dr Cédric Join lead them to a new understanding of 'model-free' techniques which are also very powerful in financial engineering.

Michel graduated from the École polytechnique in 1967. He got several important distinctions: silver medal in 1991 from the French 'Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique', the Michel Montpetit and Jacques-Louis Lions prizes in 1987 and 2007 from the French Academy of Sciences, a prize in 2010 from the École polytechnique for a patent on hydroelectric power plants.

Cédric Join, Scientific Advisor
Dr. Cédric Join is Associate Professor at University of Nancy from 2004 and is a member of the INRIA project-team, ALIEN/NON-A. Its PhD His interest is in development of estimation technics for linear and nonlinear systems and financial mathematics. His recent research in collaboration with Dr Michel Fliess lead them to a new understanding of 'model-free' techniques which are also very powerful in financial engineering.

Cédric holds a PhD dealing with the problem of fault diagnosis, awarded by GdR MACS as the best PhD during years 2002 - 2003. With Dr. M. Fliess, Cédric is the co-holder of two patents on image and signal processing treatments (2006) and one patent on hydroelectric power plants (2010), and received a prize from the École polytechnique for a patent on hydroelectric power plants and a prize from OSEO for his work in engineering.