Richard Skeet

Richard Skeet is Managing Partner and Head of Research at Hivemind, based in London, UK. Before Hivemind, Mr. Skeet was a Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager at East Lodge Capital – a Global Structured Credit Hedge Fund. Richard was an influential force in driving the firm’s growth from a standing start to a peak AUM of ~$, 2bn. Richard was responsible for all of the European RMBS, Consumer, and CLO investments as well as managing the execution of the macro hedging strategy. Richard first met founder Matt Zhang when he joined Matt as part of the proprietary trading desk at Citi in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. The pair forged a strong relationship which was cemented when running risk side-by-side as market makers for Citi before Richard left to join the Buy Side. Richard holds an MEng having attended the University of Warwick, graduating with First Class Honours in Computer Science, Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He began his career as a software architect and application developer via the Citi graduate program.