Industry Professionals serving as non-executive directors to Alternative Funds
Simon Ecclefield
Simon Ecclefield
Simon has had a long career specialising in global equity markets. His experience covers all aspects of broking to institutions, hedge funds and alternative investment companies. More recently his focus has also encompassed Blockchain and crypto-currency funds.
Simon began his career at Kleinwort Benson in 1976, initially focusing on international corporate lending and currency/interest rate arbitrage. He then moved to Morgan Grenfell in New York where his role was to develop sales of European equities to US institutions. Following similar positions at BZW, Robert Fleming and Alex Brown, he was approached to help set up Collins Stewart in New York, growing the team from 7 to over 100 people. Simon led the Global Sales Trading desk at JPM from 2008 until 2014, when he left to take up a limited number of non-executive directorships in positions where his deep understanding of all equity trading strategies is highly valued.
He is registered with NASDAQ in the Series 63, 55 and 7, and is a Registered Principal (Series 24 - Compliance and Regulatory oriented). He has also held the Canadian and British Registered Representative licences.
Specialities
Investments, Trading, Blockchain and Regulatory Compliance
Residence
Cayman Islands