VASP Team

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Tom Fitzpatrick is Managing Director and Global Head of CitiFX Technicals. The CitiFX Technicals team consistently ranks among the industry's best. It is a widely followed product focusing on the analysis of the foreign exchange and asset markets. Tom joined Citi in 1984 and has held a variety of positions in South Africa, the U.K. and the U.S. He has focused on technical analysis and financial markets for the last 17 years and was appointed CitiFX Chief Technical Analyst in 2002.

Jessica James is a Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Investor Solutions. The group informs clients on FX investment strategies, with a strong focus on systematic alpha model development. Jessica has been at the forefront of developing currency risk management models and overlay strategies, and pioneered the use of Extreme Value Theory to manage the risk of large FX moves. She also has a wealth of experience in the practical process of setting up currency overlay as a business, including trading strategy testing, design and marketing. Prior to joining Citi, Jessica headed the Currency Overlay team within Europe at Bank One. She is on the Board of the Journal Quantitative Finance, she has participated in several government Task Forces and has been involved with the Institute of Physics as a member of their governing body and a member of their Industry and Business Board. Prior to her career in finance, Jessica lectured in physics at Trinity, Oxford, having completed her Ph.D. in Theoretical Atomic and Nuclear Physics in 1994.