ABOUT US
Founded in Feb 2017 by Christopher Panayiotou and Wayne Davis CFA.
We have bought together 40 years of experience in trading, pension fund management and institutional dealing to create a one stop investment house for the professional investor.
WAYNE DAVIS
DIRECTOR
Wayne has 22 years of experience in trading of equities, currencies and derivatives for a wide range of strategies and clients. He has worked for various institutional fund management companies. Notably spending 11 years as Partner and Head of Trading Newsmith Asset Management. Wayne is a CFA charter holder and has a degree in Accountancy and Law.
TELEPHONE
+44 (0) 208 396 6888
CHRISTOPHER PANAYIOTOU
DIRECTOR
Chris has been in front office equity trading for 22 years. After helping to build CMC’s equity trading desk in 1999 he became a risk manager at City index going on to run the entire firms FTSE 350 book taking positions and hedging risk at a firm wide level.
Since 2010 Chris has been servicing high net worth clients day to day whilst managing teams of client facing execution specialists. Outside of Zodiac Partners Chris is a professional racing driver and spends much of his spare time coaching the track stars of the future.
TELEPHONE
+44 (0) 208 396 6777
Matthew Scales
SENIOR TRADER
Matthew started out as an FX trader in 1999 before moving to Equity sales trading in 2007. In over a decade of trading equities he has worked for Cantor Fitzgerald, GFI and Carax bringing a wealth of dealing room experience to the team. Outside of work Matt is involved with the West Ham Academy and coaches kids football.
TELEPHONE
+44 (0) 208 396 6444
GEORGE WATSON
SENIOR SALES TRADER
George joins us from Tradetech and brings with him a wealth of experience in private client broking. He has worked in spread betting for over 17 years and he will primarily cover our US Equities and Options trading desk.
TELEPHONE
+44 (0) 208 396 6121
SAM COSTON
INVESTMENT OPERATIONS TECHNICIAN
Sam has joined Zodiac Partners as an Investment Operations Technician and is studying towards his CISI qualification. He will be working alongside Chris and the team on day to day operations and helping to grow the business.
