Tom Leake

Tom Leake is the global head of the systematic trading strategies (STS) sales strat team at Goldman Sachs, which focuses on the development of quantitative investment strategies with a particular focus on the alternative risk premia space. His team applies these strategies to deliver custom investment solutions for pension funds, asset managers and other types of asset allocators. Tom is also responsible for European equity structuring. He joined the firm as a managing director in 2017 and was named partner in 2018.

Previously, Tom was head of equity structuring and structured sales at Deutsche Bank. In this position, Tom helped develop the alternative risk premia industry and worked with many of the global pension funds which pioneered the risk premia approach. Tom joined Deutsche Bank in 2009. Earlier in his career, Tom worked at JPMorgan as a structurer focused on institutional clients. In 2004, he co-founded an asset manager that launched one of the first smart beta index products.

Tom earned a Master of Science in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University in 2002.