Paul Anderson has over 25 years of experience in trading and marketing derivatives in the European and American markets.

Prior to his role in Aavid Management, Paul was a Senior Derivatives Trader at JP Morgan, London where he headed the TMT and Industrial/Construction sectors with a focus on customer flow and principal positions.

Before joining JP Morgan, Paul worked with Citigroup in London and Frankfurt. In Frankfurt he headed the market making group responsible for German, Swiss, Austrian and Scandinavian Index and Equity options. In London, he was the Head of Single Stock Flow Trading where as the Head of a group of European flow traders, he focused on Customer flow on all major European underlyings, while actively pursuing principal trading positions.

Paul started his career in 1994 with the International Trading Institute in Chicago. In 1995 he joined Famous Traders Analytical Software in Frankfurt, where, as European Sales Director and Managing Partner, he was instrumental in establishing the Group's offices in Frankfurt, Milan and Sydney and coordinating the sales effort there. He was also responsible for providing functional and technical support for Research and Trade Software on equity, foreign exchange and interest rate derivative products.

Paul holds a double major in Economics and Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a concentration in International Economics.

Cherian Paul has more than 25 years of experience in Corporate Banking, Global Markets and Financial Derivatives.

Before co-founding Aavid Management, Cherian was Director, Client Relationships at Standard Chartered Bank in Dubai, UAE. He moved to the Middle East from India in 1998, when he joined ANZ Grindlays Bank, Dubai as a Senior Relationship Manager in the Corporate Bank. At ANZ Grindlays Bank and subsequently at Standard Chartered he worked closely with large corporate clients in the Manufacturing, Retail, Automobile, Technology, Pharmaceutical, Oil and Gas, Contracting and Trading sectors. He has also served as the Commercial Real Estate Coordinator for the Middle East Region for Standard Chartered.

Cherian started his career in 1991 as a Treasury Marketing Officer in Citibank, India. He worked with Citibank in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore in various Client Relationship and Risk Management roles in Global Markets and Corporate Banking before relocating to Dubai.

Cherian was a certified trainer for the Credit Skills program at Standard Chartered and has conducted several training sessions and seminars on Corporate Banking, Treasury Management and Risk Management.

Cherian holds a Master's degree in Management (specializing in Finance) from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master's degree in Engineering, also from the same University and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India.