about me

Eric Barthe’s bio

Trading

Financial Engineering

Consulting

Equity exotic trader for 8 years at Goldman Sachs

London

I traded equity exotics on indices and single stocks : single stocks basket options, local caps/global floor, worst of/best of payouts, single underlyer barriers, worst of barriers, autocallables, worst of autocallables, realised correlation swaps, covariance swaps, volatility swap dispersion, conditional outperformance options, hybrids etc.

Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group for 1 year

Paris

I did consulting missions in particular a distribution strategy for an asset manager in France, a 3-year strategy for a carmaker and HR assistance for an energy company

Head of financial engineering for 10 years

Zürich

I was Managing director, global head of financial engineering at Leonteq then at a Anova Partners that I co-founded. I was pitching of trade ideas to salesforce and clients across Equity single names, Index, Fixed Income, Credit, FX, commodities. Managing a global structuring team of 9 people based in Zurich, London, Singapore and Hong Kong. Managing projects with an IT team of 10 people for the development of pricing tools, booking, documentation and life cycle management

Lecturer in derivatives, financial engineering and structured products

HEC Paris, EDHEC Business School

I taught the “financial engineering” course at HEC Paris to “MSc International Finance” final year students, and I teach the “structured products” course at EDHEC business school to “MSc Financial Engineering” final year students.