Erwin Mayer
Managing Director, Creative Research Ltd.
I love applying my quantitative finance, software engineering and project management skills to turn any kind of promising seeds into awesome investment or business opportunities!
I am deeply passionate about identifying problems/frustrations, brainstorming and prototyping to create marketable business ideas/products, or initiate paradigm shifts.
I highly value humility, integrity, perseverance, and curiosity.
I am fluent in English, German, Spanish and French, and beginner (2 years) in Chinese, Arabic and Portuguese.
Specialties
- Research, development and implementation of quantitative trading strategies;
- Data mining, machine learning;
- Cross-asset class and cross-market statistical arbitrage;
- Fund set-up, fund management, fundraising;
- Angel investments;
- Software engineering;
- Web development.
92 contactsCreative Research Ltd. is an investment company that focuses on the development of deterministic and statistical arbitrage strategies, generating alpha from variabilities among markets and asset classes.
SUIclean SA is a Swiss company that develops and provides innovative solutions for a broad range of specific cleaning needs.
2008 - 2009- Cofounded a start-up company specialized in retail commodities arbitrage, helping online and offline vendors significantly increase their sales, while making products more easily available to B2B and B2C customers
- Developed internal tools interfaced with API to automate processes, handled fiscal and legal matters, established relationships with international suppliers, collaborated with associates in France and Singapore using online project management software
- Coached the operational manager of the company
2007 - 2007- Assessed technical analysis indicators, researched price inefficiencies and arbitrage opportunities, designed synthetic indicators
- Elaborated automated investment strategies, validated through backtesting and paper trading on stocks, derivatives, futures and currency markets
- Designed real time detection tools for quotes matching specified criteria
- Advised the CEO on the new features to be implemented in ProRealTime’s programming language
- Audited and restructured the documentation
- Multicultural working environment (American, French, Italian, Spanish)
