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Leadership Team

The Central Markets Investment Management Board

Simon Abbas
Chairman
Peter Shepherd
Managing Director
Phil Culver-Evans
Director
Altan Ali
Director
Adam Stark
Director
Robert Joseph
Director

The Senior Investment Management Team

The senior management of CMIM works closely with our team of investment managers to ensure that each programme is developed and delivered to the highest standards of professionalism and industry best practice.

Peter Shepherd
Managing Director

Peter is a Senior Executive with over 20 years' experience in finance and capital markets, with a particular focus on the design and development of exchange traded products and trading technology. Peter has worked closely with the major international exchanges in London, Chicago, New York, Tokyo and many more financial centres globally, and brings a wealth of knowledge of trading and investing in alternative markets.

Darren Courtney-Cook
Head of Trading

Darren also has over 20 years’ experience in the financial markets. Darren entered the financial futures world as a pit trader on the LIFFE floor (London International Financial Futures & Options Exchange) trading STIR contracts for brokers REFCO and Dean Witter. Since 2001 Darren has run proprietary trading firms and joined CMIM to head up the trading team and oversight of the trading programmes.

Ken Kennison
Head of Sales and Marketing

Ken has worked in the financial services sector for over 20 years and started his career at SG Warburg within their Eurobond division before moving to Nomura International where he joined the trading team on LIFFE, specialising in the UK and German Government Bond contracts.

Ken then became Head of Trading for Halewood International, with a direct focus on bringing Derivatives products to the retail market before being invited to join Currency Insight Limited, a diversified systematic hedge fund, as their Head of Business Development.

Ken has worked closely with family offices, institutional pension funds, IFA groups and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to CMIM and its clients.