COMPANY PROFILE
 
Altera Partners Management Ltd. (AP) is a London based investment management company incorporated in The UK in 2003. APM specialize in investment management, corporate finance, deal structuring and financing. AP is Authorized and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

At the core of AP businesses is APsoft, a proprietary software developed in-house over many years. APsoft has a large library of functionalities and databases and work seamlessly with new cutting edge technologies and algorithms.

AP is a team and a network of individuals who have longstanding relationships in the financial industry and a wealth of expertise. AP reach is global (California, New York, London, Paris, Geneva, Dubai, Kolkata, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo).

AP has industry wide recognition in the training and development of its staff. Senior management members spent their prior careers working for blue chip institutions in major financial centers.
 
LONDON QUANTITATIVE INVESTMENTS
 
London Quantitative Investments (LQI) is a systematic CTA. LQI Multi Strategy Program relies on a leading computer driven trading and portfolio management technology. It provides numerous multi-strategy sources of alpha covering over 50 markets and 16 strategies within different time-scales and incorporates robust risk management at strategy and portfolio level. The combine system has high Sharpe ratio (>1.5), high Sortino ratio (>2.5).

The firm uses computer algorithms developed in-house and based on principles and robust statistical effects that have been well documented in academic literature and have long-term track records. These strategies are designed to produce stable long-term capital growth in all market environments using a wide range of liquid asset classes including equities, bonds, FX, commodities and credit. Investors can access these strategies through fund products or managed accounts.
 
DEAL STRUCTURING
 
The majority of world trades and a large proportion of companies need to seek financing outside of the mainstream banking sector. AP draws on its vast diversified network and innovation to create taylor made solutions.
 
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PRIVATE OFFICE
 
AP Private Office is an outsourced family office. It offers all the services typically found in the largest single family offices but for a fraction of the cost and the highest quality standards.

AP platform offers an integrated vision for wealth preservation and bespoken services. We favour integrity, independence, wisdom. The relationships we establish with our clients are at the heart of our business. We align our interests by investing alongside our members.
 
KEY PERSONNEL
 
Brian FitzGerald
Chairman

Brian FitzGerald joined Altera as chairman in April 2006 after an extensive career in banking including commercial banking, investment banking and private banking. He has worked in Australia, South Africa, Singapore, New York and London.

Most of his career has been spent with Standard Chartered Bank (1977-1991) in various directorial positions, including Managing Director of Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Asia, Executive Vice President of Standard Chartered Bank, New York, Director of International and Corporate Banking, London and Head of Private Banking, London.

More recently, Brian, had chief executive responsibilities with Riggs Bank (2000-2005), then Chairman and CEO of Liberty Syndicates, subsidiary of Liberty Mutual of Boston till 2012.
 
Patrick P. Coppens
Chief Executive Officer

Patrick is a Founding Partner of Altera Partners Management Ltd. (AP), a privately owned investment management company established in London in 2003 and Partner of LQI established in 2013.

Prior to founding AP, Patrick held senior positions at Lehman Brothers and Nomura International the fixed income derivatives division. Patrick was also in charge of Bankgesellshaft Berlin ’s USD 15BN trading book in exotic fixed income derivatives.

Patrick has considerable expertise in managing portfolios, risk management and software development.

Patrick is a frequent speaker at hedge fund symposiums. Patrick has a Financial Engineering Degree from the Solvay Business School, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
 
Mark Bloom
Head of Business Development

Mark Joined Altera in 2014 as Partner and Head of Business Development

Mark has over 20 year experience managing funds for institutional clients and high net worth individuals through a globally based asset management company which he founded. He has extensive experience working in Asia and is fluent in Japanese.

Mark also founded a global capital raising distribution business focusing on alternative asset classes with offices in Asia and Europe. This venture successfully raised early stage capital for a number of hedge funds, real estate investment projects, and other investments.

Mark is considered an expert and specialist in alternative investment strategies, hedge funds, commodities markets, CTA’s and global investments. During his time in Japan, Mark was founder and director of one of Japan’s leading Forex and Securities companies, FXA Securities, which was later sold to Man Group.

Mark received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Business Studies and Economics from Greenwich University in England, and was a Research Masters student in Economics from Tokyo University. He has authored two popular books on the hedge fund industry in Japan.
 
Rito Bhattacharyya
Head of Quantitative Option Strategies

Rito joined Altera in 2017 as a Senior Quant specialized in Machine Learning Algorithms.

He has wide-ranging experience in quantitative trading, and holds several software patents.

Rito has developed applications for several US based hedge funds and previously held positions at Oracle and Tata Consultancy Services. He continues to serve as a professor at WorldQuant University.

Rito is an alumni of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai and a member of Mensa.
 
Maryam Mansoury - Edstrom
Head of Private Investments

Maryam joined Altera in 2010 and is Partner since 2015 in charge of Altera Private Investment Office. Maryam has 25 years experience in financial markets with a proven track record in institutional and private wealth management. Since 2007 Maryam has worked with several prominent family offices as CIO and investment advisor, where she gained invaluable experience in wealth structuring and preservation. Maryam specializes in working exclusively with clients to achieve optimal asset allocation and implementation of strategies.

Maryam also held senior positions at DNB Nor Asset Management, Skandia Asset Management (London, Hong Kong), UBS (London), CSFB (London) and Lehman Brothers (London, New York).

Maryam attended Sorbonne University in Paris and has a BA in Languages.
 
Piwat Laotan
Head of IT

Piwat joined Altera in 2007 as programmer in charge of AP software development and maintenance. Altera has a proprietary software that manage all aspects of investment management. Piwat other functions include development and maintenance of AP web interfaces and AP cloud server.

California Fitness Ltd., in-house software development.

TTIS Co. Ltd, Database development for the Federation of Thai Industries.

Hollywood International Ltd., Programming, software development accounting department.

Diploma degree from RMUTT in Computer and Business. Bachelor Degree from KMUTT in IT and Software Technology and Master Degree from Krirk University in Political Science.