Johnny Mattimore has over 37 years in financial services. He is currently co-founder and CEO of the specialist financial services research and solutions firm MKM Research Labs. He originally trained as a mathematician and markets economist working on major trading floors of capital markets firms. He worked for the first half of his career in investment banking in analysis, trading and structuring. He then spent the second half of his career in hedge funds and asset management across a range of roles running money, risk management, and trading systems design and integration. More recently, he has focussed his efforts on the integration of cutting-edge risk solutions into the financial ecosystem for banking, insurance and asset management.
He is a leading proponent of open-source standards and has a high level of expertise in the integration of data, methods and models into finance for lines of business and group functions. As well as having held mainstream roles in large organisations, he has a long history in developing new businesses, particularly in hedge funds and fintech.
Johnny graduated from the University of Bristol, UK, in 1988 with a BSc in Mathematics. He has written extensive research throughout his career, including major works for risk, emerging markets, structured debt and investment methodologies, ranging from discretionary to systematic.
