Samed Bouaynaya

Samed is responsible for the investment selection, due diligence and portfolio management of the Digital Assets fund. Samed has been seeding Blockchain projects since late 2017 with an investment style to early buy and hold projects with a core tech scalability focus in Layer 1 blockchains, Interoperability and Decentralised Finance. He joined Altana in February 2014 as the firm’s quant and risk analysis specialist then moved into portfolio management in 2017. Prior to Altana, Samed has had nine years sell-side experience in quantitative analysis, pricing and risk oversight of structured products across Equity, Credit and Rates. Previously he was a Derivatives Trading Analyst at SocGen, a Credit Quant Analyst at JP Morgan and an Associate Director at RBC Capital Markets. Samed is a Director of Altana UCITS Funds and a CFA charter holder. He holds an MSc. in Financial and Mathematical Engineering from Polytechnic Federal School of Lausanne, Switzerland and an MSc in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from ENISMAG in France.