Maneesh Deshpande

managing director, head of equity derivatives strategy, Barclays

Maneesh S. Deshpande is a managing director and head of equity derivatives strategy at Barclays, based in New York. Maneesh is a member of the team which was ranked #2 in 2012, and #1 from 2007 to 2011 in the Equity Derivatives/Equity Linked category of the Institutional Investor annual survey.

Maneesh joined Barclays in September 2008 from Lehman Brothers, where he worked in a similar role. Prior to that he established and ran the systematic portfolio trading desk at Goldman Sachs. Previously, he was head of principal trading at Morgan Stanley Japan, and head of US interest rate options trading at BNP Paribas.

Maneesh earned a Ph.D in theoretical physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in electrical and electronics engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.