Meet Our Team

Leadership

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Mark Latham

Founder & CEO

  • 26-year asset management veteran
  • Consistently outperformed, delivering 20.4% returns vs. 2.4% peer average at Baring Natural Resource Fund
  • Founded Commodity Intelligence in 2008, employing AI news models
  • Generated 15.88 percentage points higher alpha and 64% lower tracking error over 3 years
  • Ranked #5/670 over 3 years
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Jamie Latham

Co-Founder & Technical Lead

  • Senior Data Engineer with 11+ years combined research and professional experience in data systems and analytics
  • Career in software industry creating multi-tenant data platforms, ETL pipelines, and ML systems using Python, SQL, and cloud technologies
  • Holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, where he developed data mining techniques to extract insights from unstructured text from historical sources, skills now applied to financial news analytics

Technology Partner

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Amzu Information Technology Ltd, United Kingdom

Development Partner

  • Led by Venkatesh Balakumar (Director)
  • Expertise in building enterprise-grade platforms
  • Responsible for developing the user interface and platform infrastructure
  • Collaborative partner in Athena's technological innovation