The Team Behind 111 CAPITAL
111 CAPITAL is led by a team of specialists who have spent their careers at the intersection of quantitative finance, technology, and institutional asset management. Our professionals bring experience from systematic hedge funds, proprietary trading desks, and academic research institutions. We have built a culture that prizes intellectual rigor, continuous learning, and uncompromising integrity. The diversity of backgrounds within our team is a deliberate source of competitive advantage in our research and risk management processes.
Adrian Mercer
Chief Investment Officer
Adrian has over two decades of experience designing and managing systematic equity and derivatives strategies at top-tier hedge funds and proprietary trading firms. He oversees all investment decisions and leads the firm's quantitative research agenda. Adrian holds advanced degrees in financial mathematics and applied statistics.
Sophia Klaassen
Head of Quantitative Research
Sophia leads the team responsible for signal research, factor model development, and backtesting infrastructure at 111 CAPITAL. Prior to joining the firm, she conducted algorithmic strategy research at a leading European systematic fund. Her work focuses particularly on regime detection models and cross-sectional equity signals.
Daniel Vong
Head of Execution & Technology
Daniel architects and maintains the firm's low-latency execution systems, data infrastructure, and cybersecurity protocols. He brings experience from electronic market-making and high-frequency trading operations at major financial institutions. Daniel's engineering philosophy prioritizes reliability, measurability, and continuous performance optimization.
Renata Sokolova
Chief Risk Officer
Renata oversees the firm's enterprise risk framework, including market risk, counterparty risk, and operational risk management across all strategies and mandates. She has a background in derivatives risk at a bulge-bracket investment bank and subsequently in hedge fund risk oversight. Renata is responsible for all stress testing, scenario analysis, and risk reporting delivered to institutional clients.
James Otieno
Head of Investor Relations
James manages all institutional client relationships and leads the business development function at 111 CAPITAL. He has spent fifteen years working with pension funds, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds across multiple asset classes. James ensures that client communication, reporting, and service delivery consistently meet the highest institutional standards.