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Quantitative Digital Asset Investment Firm Cambrian Asset Management Names Hedge Fund Industry Veteran Tony Fenner-Leitao President
August 2020
MILL VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambrian Asset Management ("Cambrian"), a quantitative investment firm specializing in liquid digital assets, announced today the appointment of Tony Fenner-Leitao as the firm's President. Mr. Fenner-Leitao, a veteran of the hedge fund industry, has held several prominent business development and strategic positions, including a role as Chief Executive Officer of Winton Capital, one of the largest quantitative investment firms in the industry.
Mr. Fenner-Leitao's appointment follows Cambrian's recent announcement of the closing of its first equity round. Last month the firm raised $4.2 million in seed equity from notable technology and quantitative investors, including Howard Morgan, Co-founder, Renaissance Technologies, Tano Capital, the Family Office of the founding family of Franklin Templeton Investments, Dennis Phelps, General Partner, IVP, and Kevin Ryan, Co-founder, MongoDB and Business Insider.
Mr. Fenner-Leitao will help scale Cambrian's operations to serve an institutional investor base, including family offices, endowments, foundations and pension funds. He has over 30 years of financial sector experience including eight years as a senior member of globally recognized systematic investment firms. Mr. Fenner-Leitao began his career in investment banking in London and New York for UBS and Goldman Sachs. Prominent roles he has held in the hedge fund industry include Head of Global Marketing and Investor Relations at Passport Capital and CEO of Winton Capital in London.
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