GSA is an award-winning quantitative trading and investment management firm. For over 15 years our people have collaborated to create and apply innovative technologies to predict and automatically trade financial instruments on global electronic markets.
We are an eclectic mixture of thinkers with backgrounds in mathematics, statistics, computer science and much more. We live by the scientific method in our evaluation of opportunities and embrace urgency in our pursuit of them. We strive to foster a strong culture, one that avoids bureaucracy and internal competition and instead promotes trust, integrity, fairness and the taking of action to achieve our goals together, as one team.
Website: https://www.gsacapital.com/
Business Sector: Financial Services
HQ Location: London
Office Locations: London & New York
Number of Employees: 150
Nationalities: 25
Founded: 2005
CEO: David Khabie-Zeitoune
CTO: Pete Calvert-Barr
In this session, hosted by SheCanCode, Michael Connelly, Quant Research & Technology Recruitment, at GSA Capital and Phil Veal, Talent Acquisition Partner, Technology, at TrueLayer share their advice on how to stand out in the tech crowd.
Ali Worrell, Head Of Post Trade Technology, GSA Capital discusses the tech talent shortage and what skills are needed to plug the gap and how easy it is to transition into other roles.
GAIN (Girls Are Investors)GSA are working with GAIN to bring on interns in 2023
GAIN (Girls Are Investors) is a charity set up by investment professionals to improve gender diversity in asset management by building a talent pipeline of entry-level female candidates.
Our focus is to generate more and better-prepared female candidates for investment firms through early engagement with sixth-form and university students.
We are pleased to share we are a signatory of the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We know that ethnic minorities still face significant disparities in employment and progression, and that is something we need to change.
The Charter is composed of five calls to action for leaders and organisations across all sectors. We signed up to taking practical steps to ensure their workplaces are tackling barriers that ethnic minority people face in recruitment and progression and that their organisations are representative of British society today.
#10000Blackinterns10,000 Black Interns is seeking to offer 2,000 internships each year for five consecutive years. GSA Capital is partnering with other companies from 24 different sectors, to deliver internships across a range of internal business functions. Each internship offered presents the opportunity to change a life. Each interview offered provides invaluable experience and each training session can genuinely change an individual’s trajectory.
WiMLGSA attended the 6th Workshop for Women in Machine Learning (WiML) which was co-located with NeurIPS in December 2021 and was held virtually. The workshop is a one-day event with invited speakers, oral and poster presentations. The event brings together members of the academic and industry research community for an opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and learn from each other. While all presenters identified as a woman, nonbinary or gender non-conforming, members of all gender identities were invited to attend.
Partnering with Future Frontiers, an award-winning education charity that exists to ensure young people from disadvantaged backgrounds fulfil their potential at school and when transitioning to education, employment, or training at ages 16 and 18. They do this through an intensive programme of 1:1 coaching delivered by business professionals and by giving students access to professional role models in their chosen industries. GSA facilitates its staff volunteering to work with Future Frontiers.
LAE is proud to offer an education within the state sector, which is reliant on philanthropy, to provide a first-class sixth-form education for young people living in one of the most disadvantaged parts of the UK. Eliminating educational disadvantage and ensuring that all talented young people, irrespective of background, can access the very best higher education institutions is hugely important to this country, from both a social and an economic point of view. We have partnered with LAE to provide the resources and opportunities for educational success.
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