Trading, Research and Development

Paul Mulvaney, Chief Investment Officer

Mulvaney Capital Management founder Paul Mulvaney is Chief Investment Officer. He has been managing money in the Mulvaney Capital Global Diversified Program since May 1999, and has primary responsibility for all investment decisions. Paul’s program leverages the knowledge and skills he has acquired over many years.

From October 1986 until joining Merrill Lynch in September 1993, Paul held derivatives and foreign exchange trading posts at Midland Montagu, Bankers Trust Company and NatWest Markets. At Merrill Lynch he managed several major options portfolios and, separately, served as Co-head of the Fixed Income Derivatives Research Unit, where he focused on embedded optionality. Paul’s proprietary trading activity prompted the research and development of a statistical system for futures trading. After leaving Merrill Lynch he founded Mulvaney Capital Management in March 1999.

Paul graduated from Manchester University in 1985 with first class honours in computer science and mathematics. In 1986 he gained an MSc with distinction in management science from Imperial College, London. The focus of his MSc thesis was computerised arbitrage models for interest rate and foreign exchange trading.

Investor Relations and Business Development

Colin Lloyd, Head of Investor Relations
Colin joined in February 2006 to spearhead MCM’s drive to extend and deepen its investor base globally. Formerly he was director responsible for business development within Man Financial Ltd’s Institutional Equity Swaps Group. Prior to this, Colin was GNI Ltd Director of Sales and Marketing for institutional Futures & Options Broking. Colin’s career started in 1981, on his joining his family’s lumber business. Colin holds a Business & Technology Education Council Higher National Diploma in Business Studies, Marketing & Advertising, and a BTEC Intermediate National Certificate in Timber Technology, Economics & Administration.

Business Management

Ian Saunders, Chief Financial Officer
Ian joined MCM in January 2007. He has had significant experience working for a range of companies across a variety of industries. Ian was a Finance Director for Bellman Ltd and an Ex Financial Controller for SME-Corporate Finance Ltd who specialised in raising money for technology companies, Bishop International Ltd and Douglas LLambias Associates. Ian graduated from Nottingham University with a BSc in Agricultural Science.  He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1995.

Juan Pérez, Fund Administrator
Juan joined MCM in April 2007. Juan was a Fund Administrator for Northern Trust International Fund Administration (Ireland) Limited and Controller Internal Finance for BFS Finance Ltd, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG. Juan graduated with a BSc in Business Administration from Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela.

Silvana Castagnetti, Office Manager
Silvana joined MCM in January 2004 and is responsible for general office administration, financial records and client servicing material. Prior to joining MCM, Silvana worked in the Global Structured Finance Department of Royal Bank of Canada. She holds a Business & Technology Education Council National Diploma in Business & Finance.

Non-executive Directors

Gerry Ritchie

Gerry has acted as a business consultant to MCM Ltd since February 2004 and a non-executive director since August 2005.  Gerry is an experienced management consultant, having undertaken many major capital markets advisory and consulting projects globally during the last 12 years.

He was CEO to a start-up stock exchange in The Bahamas in 2001-2002.  During his four years based in Hong Kong from 1995 until 1999 he ran the Corporate Finance Association, a representative group for corporate finance firms.  He previously carried out a range of regulatory, business and market development roles during his nine years at the London Stock Exchange from 1986 to 1995.  He has an extensive network of contacts internationally in the major, offshore and developing financial centres.

Gerry graduated from the University of Manchester with a joint honours degree in Accounting & Law in 1984.

Joseph Connolly

Joseph E Connolly has had thirty years experience in international banking and served as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Research during his eleven years at Citibank. He held a similar position for some years in investment research at UBS.

Joseph is currently Commissioner of the United States of America for the UK-US Bilateral Foundation for Fulbrights and teaches finance, business strategy and corporate governance to MBAs and EMBAs at ENCP, one of France's grande ecoles. 

He held the Willard Brown Distinguished Professor Chair at the American University in Cairo where he taught Corporate Governance and Islamic Finance to MBAs.

Joseph graduated in International Finance from the Harvard Business School.

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