Team
Louis Villa
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Louis founded Ananda Asset Management in October 2018. He is Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager.
Araceli Strassburger
Founder & Head of Research
Araceli is co-founder of Ananda Asset Management and Head of Research.
Maxime Deschars
Head of Trading
Maxime has 17 years of experience at Louis Capital, Trading European Equities.
Maxime graduated from La Sorbonne Paris with a Master in Economics and Finance.
Samson Jayes
Investment Analyst
Prior to joining Ananda, Samson was an Associate with Evercore in London, working in the Investment Banking practice where he advised on Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital raisings across Europe.
Samson holds an MA degree in English Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge and studied as a Normalien litteraire at the ENS in Paris.
Dorothée Boissonnas
Investor Relations
Dorothée has 7 years of experience in CRM and Marketing at Ralph Lauren, and started her career as an Analyst in the Investment Banking division of Morgan Stanley.
Dorothée holds a BA in Business Administration from Dauphine University in Paris, and a Masters degree from ESCP
Alex Richardson
Investment Analyst
Alex worked previously at Sloane Robinson and Portland House Group. He has over 15 years of research experience.
Alex graduated in Accounting and Finance from University of Manchester in 2001.
Owen Daniel
Chief Operating Officer
Prior to being the COO of Brainbridge Capital Partners, Owen was the COO and CFO at Bourne Park Capital where he was in charge of Finance, Operations, Compliance and Risk.
He started his career in Fund Accounting roles at Marshall Wace LLP and then at Theorema Asset Management LTD.
Owen graduate from Warwick University in 2003 with a BA in Business and Law
Olivier Picq
Chief Technology Officer
Olivier worked previously as head of IT development at Louis Capital, where he spent 14 years.
Olivier graduated with a specialisation in Computer Science from CPE Lyon engineering school in 2006.
SoJung Eckes
Head of Operations
SoJung worked 7 years at BlueCrest / Systematica and Bridgepoint in commercial roles and fund accounting. Prior to that, she was at KPMG as a tax advisor.
SoJung graduated from Warwick University in 2008 with a BSc in Business Management