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Michael Graves

Tesseract Capital LLC
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| Michael Graves is the President and CEO of Tesseract Capital LLC. Prior to founding Tesseract, he was Managing Director of the Swiss Re Global Arbitrage Team from January 2006. His team ran a global portfolio of automated strategies that traded in 45 countries across multiple asset classes based upon quantitative models. Mr. Graves began his career in 1995 with the options trading firm, CooperNeff, in Philadelphia, where he worked for Program Trading pioneer Dr. Andrew Sterge. After two years with CooperNeff, Credit-Suisse(CS) hired Mr. Graves to start its Quantitative Trading Group(QTG). The QTG regularly traded over 5% of US equity volume in the late 90’s. After leaving CS in 2000, he started the Fountainhead Capital hedge fund which he ran for 5 years. Fountainhead was later absorbed by Fortress Investment Group (FIG), where the team built out the FIG infrastructure and quantitative trading portfolio. Mr. Graves is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Wharton School and the College of the University of Pennsylvania, holding a BS in Finance and Minors in Genetics and International Relations. |
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