Optiver's hiring spree includes a head of AI from Apple and a JPMorgan trader
Electronic trading firms are known for their ability to develop homegrown talent, but Amsterdam-based trading giant Optiver has been hiring a lot at senior level as of late. Arrivals at Optiver this month include traders from banking and AI specialists from Big Tech.
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In New York, where Optiver has been expanding over the past year, Noyan Tokgozoglu joined as the firm's global head of AI. He spent the last seven and a half years at Apple, where he was the head of its foundation modelling and research platform within services engineering. His work included work on AI agents and burgeoning subsets of machine learning like reinforcement learning.
It's not clear whether Tokgozoglu's role will also encompass Optiver's AI lab, which is an independent business building out across China and New York. Job descriptions in the lab said that Optiver is looking for people with "Big Tech rigor," so he would presumably fit right in.
In London, meanwhile, Bertrand Marchal joined Optiver as its head of exotics. He was most recently JPMorgan's EMEA head of index exotics, but he also worked as HSBC's Americas head of equity derivatives trading.
Other senior hires at Optiver already have experience in the electronic trading space. Nate Clark joined in New York in an undisclosed technology role; he was most recently an equity trader at Old Mission Capital, but also previously worked as head of client technology at publicly traded HFT firm Virtu Financial.
Optiver is also building out its ETF sales trading team with experienced electronic trading staff. Brett Sussman of Flow Traders and Caitlin Krantz, another Old Mission alum, were both previously reported to be joining the firm in New York.
The people and firms associated with this article all did not respond to a request for comment.
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