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Kayenta

Created by industry veterans who understand the complexities of hedge fund financing, and who see how the lack of transparency hinders both sides of the relationship.

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Management Team

Chris Hagstrom
Chris has been working with hedge funds since he began his career in 1994. He spent 10 years at Société Générale where he set up the New York financing desk and ran the Global Equity Finance sales team before then moving to UBS AG as Global Head of Equity Finance. During his 16-year tenure he was promoted to Co-Head of Americas Equity Distribution and then Head of Global Financing Services for the Americas, managing over 100 people across prime brokerage, stock loan, equity swaps and futures. Chris joined Kayenta as CEO in May 2020.
Chris Hagstrom
Chief Executive Officer
Matt Peakman
Matt began his career in finance at Merrill Lynch in 1999 as an Equity Derivatives trader. In 2004 he moved to Nomura where he was promoted to Managing Director and Head of Fund and Corporate Derivatives Trading. In 2017 he left to found Kayenta and build the company we are today.
Matt Peakman
Chief Operating Officer, Founder
Mark Toone
Mark has worked in hedge fund financing related roles since 2000. His career began at Goldman Sachs in prime brokerage before moving to UBS in securities lending, and then to hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management in their treasury team. Most recently Mark spent 10 years at Morgan Stanley where he was Head of Delta-1 Product sales in EMEA. Mark joined Kayenta in Oct 2019.
Mark Toone
Chief Commercial Officer
Paul Harrington
Paul is a seasoned engineering lead who has spent more than 25years in the sector, over half of which have been in leadership roles. He has driven the technology strategy for both start up and enterprise companies, including TopTable, OpenTable, Salesforce, and GlaxoSmithKline. After 2years of running his own consultancy business, Paul joined Kayenta in February 2023.
Paul Harrington
Chief Technology Officer
Kelly Russo
Kelly’s career began in securities lending, firstly at Goldman Sachs in New York and London, and then at UBS. After 13 years on the desk she was promoted to Equities Chief of Staff where she managed the regulatory and operational demands affecting the US Equities business. Kelly joined Kayenta in July 2020.
Kelly Russo
Head of Onboarding
Dominic Pang
Dominic has a background in both technology and capital markets having started his career as an IT consultant developing risk management systems and applications for investment banks. He then transitioned into finance as an equity derivatives trader at Nomura where he continued to work for almost 20 years. Dom joined Kayenta in April 2021.
Dominic Pang
Head of Product Development

Advisory Board

Reinhardt Olsen (Chairman)
Reinhardt spent over 30 years in senior investment banking roles before his retirement in 2022. For the last 20 years he worked at UBS in prominent positions such as Global Head of Prime Brokerage, Head of Equities for the Americas, and Head of Global Family Offices. Reinhardt is Chairman of the Advisory Board.
Reinhardt Olsen (Chairman)
Mark Bailey
Mark has been Managing Director and Global Head of Treasury at Two Sigma since 2015. Prior to that he spent 19 years between Barclays, Merrill Lynch, and Credit Suisse as Managing Director in hedge fund financing related roles.
Mark Bailey
Bastien Bourdon
Bastien is CTO and co-founder of Edgefolio, a technology solution focussed on fund raising within the asset management industry.
Bastien Bourdon
Ian Brock
Ian spent over 20 years as Treasurer at Viking Global Investors. Prior to that he worked at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers in equity finance related trading roles.
Ian Brock
Fraser McIntyre
Fraser spent 10 years in Prime Brokerage at Goldman Sachs and UBS, and over 15 years since in COO and CFO roles at hedge funds including Cantab, Quadrature, Lijaro, Meditor and SRM Global. Fraser currently provides consultancy and advisory services, and is a Non-Executive Director at Schroders and Kayenta.
Fraser McIntyre
Ed Sisterson
Ed worked at Morgan Stanley for over 22 years, the bulk of which he was Head of Prime Brokerage for Asia. He then transferred to London as COO for Equity Derivatives and to manage Brexit for Equities.
Ed Sisterson
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Our Story

Incorporated in 2018, Kayenta has built a cohesive team of driven individuals in New York and London that is now servicing some of the largest hedge funds globally.

Having recognised the challenges for hedge funds to build in-house treasury management solutions and the lack of strong third-party offerings, the team partnered with developers fluent in the most modern technologies to deliver an affordable, fresh-looking solution to the problems they know exist.

As for the name? In 2015 the founding team competed in Race Across America, a gruelling 3,000 miles with 175,000 feet of climbs pitched as ‘The World’s Toughest Bicycle Race’. By the 11th stop, in a town called Kayenta, they had determined to address the problem.

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