Reuters – HSBC’s Bill Maldonado is a man who loves to mix science with art — be that in running the Halbis hedge fund business, riding his high-powered Ducati motorbike on a race track or piloting a light aircraft.
An Oxford doctor in laser physics who trod the well-worn path from academia to high finance, Maldonado resisted the obvious choice of becoming a quant, writing computer programmes for trading strategies — instead opting to transfer his number-crunching skills into a more "front office" role in fund management.
The results have been impressive.
