Irene Perdomo

Irene Perdomo is co-head of systematic strategies at Ocean Leonid Investments. She was managing director and head of systematic product strategy at Gresham Investment Management. Prior to joining Gresham, Irene was CEO and Managing Partner of Devet Capital, a boutique commodities-focused quant firm that she co–founded. Before Devet, she traded base metals at Noble Resources in Singapore and was co-responsible for commodities product development in the Commodity Investor Structuring team at Barclays in London.

She is the co-author of “Pricing and hedging financial derivatives: a guide for practitioners” (Wiley, 2013), and has been a guest lecturer in Mathematics and Finance at Queen Mary University and at Imperial College London.

Irene holds an MBA from IESE Barcelona, a degree in Computer Science Engineering from her home university in Uruguay and studied finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

In 2021, Irene was selected by the Board of the Parliament Trust to be featured in the publication “300 Years Of Leadership & Innovation” in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.