Key Takeaways
- • Point72 appoints Ashot Ordukhanyan as head of risk technology, bringing 20+ years of quantitative expertise from JPMorgan's equities central risk book and prior roles at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and RBS.
- • Ordukhanyan's background in central risk book operations—which monitor and manage trading desk exposures across institutions—directly applies to multi-strategy hedge funds increasingly reliant on technology-driven risk monitoring across investment teams.
- • The hire follows a concurrent senior technology departure: Guillaume Gimonet, Point72's global head of treasury technology, departed after seven years to join Vanguard as head of fixed-income and ETF technology.
- • Ordukhanyan spent two years at risk-management technology firm ActiveViam as head of quantitative development immediately before joining Point72, bridging his banking expertise with specialist fintech experience.
Summary
Point72 has appointed Ashot Ordukhanyan as head of risk technology based in New York, signaling the hedge fund's continued investment in quantitative and risk infrastructure. Ordukhanyan joins from ActiveViam, a risk-management technology company where he served as head of quantitative development for two years. His appointment underscores Point72's emphasis on building proprietary technology capabilities to manage increasingly complex multi-strategy operations.
Ordukhanyan brings substantial institutional banking experience to the role. Most recently, he spent two years as co-head of JPMorgan's equities central risk book—a critical function responsible for monitoring and aggregating exposures generated across all trading desks. This expertise is directly transferable to multi-strategy hedge funds, where portfolio managers operate semi-independently and require integrated risk technology to consolidate position data and manage exposures in real time across individual investment teams.
His career trajectory spans more than two decades across major financial institutions. He spent 14 years at Goldman Sachs, where he rose to co-head of US equity algorithmic trading strategies, then moved to RBS to lead rates algorithmic trading. He subsequently held the role of head of equity strategies for the Americas at Deutsche Bank before joining JPMorgan.
The appointment occurs amid organizational changes at Point72. Guillaume Gimonet, the firm's global head of treasury technology, departed in October 2026 to become head of fixed-income and ETF technology at Vanguard. Gimonet had spent seven years at Point72, where he led macro risk and treasury technology initiatives. Prior to Point72, he was a managing director at Credit Suisse and served as chief technology officer at Soros Fund Management.
Point72 declined to comment on Ordukhanyan's appointment through its official channels.
Ordukhanyan brings substantial institutional banking experience to the role. Most recently, he spent two years as co-head of JPMorgan's equities central risk book—a critical function responsible for monitoring and aggregating exposures generated across all trading desks. This expertise is directly transferable to multi-strategy hedge funds, where portfolio managers operate semi-independently and require integrated risk technology to consolidate position data and manage exposures in real time across individual investment teams.
His career trajectory spans more than two decades across major financial institutions. He spent 14 years at Goldman Sachs, where he rose to co-head of US equity algorithmic trading strategies, then moved to RBS to lead rates algorithmic trading. He subsequently held the role of head of equity strategies for the Americas at Deutsche Bank before joining JPMorgan.
The appointment occurs amid organizational changes at Point72. Guillaume Gimonet, the firm's global head of treasury technology, departed in October 2026 to become head of fixed-income and ETF technology at Vanguard. Gimonet had spent seven years at Point72, where he led macro risk and treasury technology initiatives. Prior to Point72, he was a managing director at Credit Suisse and served as chief technology officer at Soros Fund Management.
Point72 declined to comment on Ordukhanyan's appointment through its official channels.
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