Will England is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Walleye Capital, a multi-strategy hedge fund founded in 2005. He joined Walleye in 2013 and was named a partner in 2017. Will plays an integral role in setting the strategic direction of Walleye and oversees all aspects of the firm’s investment processes, including strategy allocation, risk management, and talent recruitment.
 
Will began his career as a Quantitative Researcher for the AHL division of London-based Man Group plc, researching and implementing algorithmic trading strategies across global futures and equity instruments. He also spent time as an investment analyst with Valor Equity Partners, a leading growth private equity firm.

Will earned a BSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University (Academic All-Ivy honors) and a Master’s degree in Mathematical and Computational Finance from Oxford University. Throughout his time at Princeton and Oxford, Will was an accomplished rower, appearing in multiple World Championships for the U.S. National Team and winning the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.

Mr. Carney has been with Walleye since 2006 and a Partner since 2015. He is a member of the Investment Committee.  He has been an integral part of building the Investment Manager’s US options market making business since its inception. As President and Co-CIO, Mr. Carney oversees all aspects of the firm’s activities, with operational responsibility for monitoring and maintaining firm-wide risk levels and controls.

Prior to joining Walleye, Andrew was an actuary at Willis Towers Watson (formerly Towers Perrin).

Andrew graduated Magna cum Laude from Luther College with a BA in Mathematics/Statistics. Additionally, he is an Associate in the Society of Actuaries.

As a founding partner of Walleye, Mr. Kessler is primarily involved in setting the strategic direction of the firm. He is a member of the Investment Committee. Mr. Kessler was also the founding member and Chief Investment Officer of Provident Advisors LLC.

Prior to co-founding Walleye in 2005, Mr. Kessler was CEO and CIO of Deephaven Capital Management, a multi-strategy hedge fund he co-founded in 1994.  Mr. Kessler founded and co-founded several other companies in the past. In 1995, he co-founded Arbitrade, a global market maker in exchange traded derivatives. When Arbitrade and Deephaven were sold to Knight Trading Group in 2000, Mr. Kessler joined Knight’s executive oversight committee. Mr. Kessler also co-founded Kessler-Asher Group in 1986, a firm that offered clearing, training, and financial backing to professional traders.  The firm was sold to Spear, Leeds & Kellogg in 1998.  He also founded Provident Real Estate Advisors to invest in distressed real estate.  PREA began purchasing and managing single family homes for rent in 2009.  These portfolios morphed into a public REIT, Silver Bay Realty Trust Corp. (NYSE: SBY), of which Mr. Kessler was one of the founders and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors until SBY’s sale for $1.3B to another public company in 2017.

Mr. Kessler began his career as a floor trader in 1978, trading and making markets in equity and index options, treasuries, foreign exchange and grains on the CBOE, CBOT, and CME until 1990.  He was elected to the Board of Directors of the CBOE and Cincinnati Stock Exchange in 1988.

Mr. Zeldis has been with Walleye since 2005 and a Partner since 2015. He has been instrumental in designing and developing the firm’s competitive technology infrastructure as well as some of its trading strategies.  As a Partner, Mark continues to manage the infrastructure and support needs of the trading groups.

Prior to joining Walleye, Mr. Zeldis was Vice President at Lehman Brothers in Equities Technology.  He was responsible for reengineering the company’s Position/PNL/Risk system and providing assistance in platform and logic development behind Lehman’s execution strategies. Early on in his career, Mr. Zeldis founded SeekImage.  Here, he was able to invent and develop algorithms behind content-based image retrieval and recognition on a large scale.

Mr. Zeldis graduated from Brown University with a BS in Computer Science.

Mr. Brenner joined Walleye in 2018 as Head of Marketing & Investor Relations. He is responsible for the firm's fundraising and investor relations activities.

Prior to joining the firm, Jonathan was a Vice President in the Capital Strategy Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Before Bank of America, Jonathan spent four years as a Senior Analyst in the Investment Research Group at Ehrenkranz Partners, a New York-based Multi-Family Office. Jonathan began his career in the Consulting Group at Cambridge Associates.

Jonathan graduated with a B.A. from Bucknell University. He was also a member and 2009 co-captain of the Bucknell Men's Tennis Team.

Mr. Rauser has been with Walleye since 2013, joining full-time in 2014 following a collegiate internship. In his role, he plays an integral part in the design and management of Walleye’s proprietary technology as well as the integration of any external trading platforms. In particular, Mr. Rauser focuses on the interaction between Walleye’s trading and non-trading functions, including back and middle office operations, compliance, accounting, and risk.

Mr. Rauser graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with high distinction with a B.S. in Mathematics.

Mr. Tusler joined Walleye in 2005 and is responsible for accounting, finance, operations, tax and regulatory reporting requirements for each of the firm’s domestic and international entities. 

Prior to joining Walleye, he had spent more than eight years in accounting capacities for multi-strategy hedge fund EBF & Associates, NRG Energy, and Ernst & Young.

Mr. Tusler graduated Magna Cum Laude from University of Minnesota at Mankato with a BS in Accounting and Business Administration. He also earned a full scholarship to the University of Denver, where he received a Masters in Taxation.

Mr. Mattson joined Walleye in 2005 and became a Partner in 2017.

Prior to joining Walleye, Mr. Mattson had spent more than five years working for Willis Towers Watson where he worked as a consulting actuary for large pension plans.

Mr. Mattson graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Economics. He is a CFA charterholder.

Mr. Lyons is a Partner and founding member of Walleye.

Mr. Lyons was the head equity and index trader at Arbitrade from 1997 through 2005, as its ownership transferred to Knight and Citigroup, respectively. Mr. Lyons’ index group was in the top two in contract volume traded on the CBOE and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for seven consecutive years.

Mr. Lyons originally was with Mr. Kessler as a trader with the Kessler Asher Group from 1984 to 1996 in Chicago on the CBOE, in New York on the Amex, and in Frankfurt Germany on the DTB.

Mr. Gardocki joined Walleye in 2020. He is responsible for sourcing, tracking, and performing due diligence on external investment opportunities and internal portfolio management talent.

Prior to joining Walleye, Mr. Gardocki was a Senior Associate at Cliffwater on the firm’s Fundamental Strategies Hedge Fund Research team. He was responsible for ongoing performance monitoring of existing approved funds as well as providing new fund recommendations to the firm’s institutional clients. He began his career in 2014 as a member of the UBS Capital Introduction team.

Mr. Gardocki graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 2014 with a B.A. in Economics and a Pre-Medical Concentration.

Ms. Cohen joined Walleye in 2018. As Head of Business Strategy, she is responsible for designing and implementing business development processes, as well as managing broader strategic business initiatives for the firm. Ms. Cohen’s role spans both investment and non-investment talent sourcing, investment due diligence, third party relationship management, and operations.

Prior to joining Walleye, Ms. Cohen ran Business Development at a New-York based, emerging hedge fund. Here she was responsible for leading the firm’s external capital activities and investor relations functions. Early on in her career, Ms. Cohen worked at Barclays on the Institutional Equity Sales team.

Ms. Cohen graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in International Studies.

Mr. Aronson joined Walleye Capital in 2020 and is responsible for the sourcing and recruitment of trading talent across multiple asset classes.

Prior to joining Walleye, Mr. Aronson was a partner and Director of Business Development at Ronin Capital. Mr. Aronson also served on the Board of Managers and was CEO of Ronin Professional Executions. Throughout his years at Ronin Capital, he was responsible for strategic growth, recruitment, clearing and exchange relationships as well as managing day to day operations of the firm. He began his career with Stafford Trading as an equity trader.

Mr. Aronson graduated from New England College with a B.A. in Psychology.

Mr. Zweibach joined Walleye in 2022 as Chief Operating Officer of Quantitative Strategies, where he is responsible for business development, driving new avenues for growth and innovation, managing external relationships, onboarding portfolio managers, and operations of the quant business.

Before joining Walleye, Mr. Zweibach was Head of Business Strategy & Investor Relations at Panagora Asset Management where he was responsible for the oversight of the firms PR, marketing, product development, and M&A. Prior to Panagora, he was Global Head of Quant Sales at Barclays Capital where he built one of Wall Street’s premier quant sales teams. He showcased Barclays’ quant research to global quant clients and helped cross-sell Barclays products. Prior to joining Barclays, Mr. Zweibach served as a paratrooper in the Israeli Defense Forces.

Yosef is a board member of the Society of Quantitative Analysts.

Mr. Zweibach graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a B.A. in Management Studies.

Erin joined Walleye in March 2023 as Director of Marketing. In this role, she is responsible for supporting the firm's fundraising activities and building and developing current investor relationships.

Prior to joining Walleye, Erin worked at Morgan Stanley on the Capital Introductions team where she was responsible for consulting hedge fund clients on capital raising efforts.

Erin graduated with a BA from Yale University in 2015 and was a member of the Varsity Women's Lacrosse Team.

Since joining Walleye in 2019, Mr. Beagley has focused on enhancing Walleye’s risk management and monitoring framework.  He is also responsible for setting and monitoring risk limits for new strategies and building tools to enhance firm leadership’s abilities to assess strategy and fund level risk metrics.

Prior to joining Walleye, he spent 4 years as a discretionary trader and market maker in equity index, FX and short term interest rate futures, before transitioning to a 6 year stint as a risk analyst at Magnetar Capital, with a focus on portfolio risk reporting.

Mr. Beagley completed a BS/MS in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, where he competed on the varsity cross country and track and field teams.  He also earned a Masters in Financial Mathematics from New York University.

Mr. Dua joined Walleye in January 2021 as Managing Director and Head of Systematic Macro Trading. He is building out a trading business focused on medium frequency systematic strategies involving liquid futures and FX instruments. His role spans business development, infrastructure creation, capital allocation, and risk management for the strategies in his portfolio.

Prior to joining Walleye, Mr. Dua was the Chief Investment Officer for Asset Management at GTS, which he joined in 2015. He led their portfolio allocation, risk management, new alpha development, and sourcing efforts. He was also heavily involved with fundraising and business development. Prior to joining GTS, he worked at Barclays from 2008 to 2014, where he was a Director and managed a $500mm portfolio of diversified cross-asset systematic strategies. He ran a team of traders and quants focused on developing and executing new alpha strategies in the FX, rates and equities markets. Prior to joining Barclays, he was an Associate at Lehman Brothers from 2007 to 2008.

Mr. Dua graduated with a Master’s of Engineering degree with a concentration in Financial Engineering and Finance from Cornell University in 2007 and a Bachelor’s of Science degree, summa cum laude, from Cornell University in 2006.

Mr. Church oversees Walleye's Equity Long Short Strategies.  He first joined Walleye in 2021 as a Consumer Discretionary Portfolio Manager.

Mr. Church's responsibilities include overseeing portfolio construction, risk management, and performance.  He is also actively involved in business development, allocation of risk, and Portfolio Manager development.

Prior to joining Walleye, Mr. Church was a Portfolio Manager in Citadel’s Surveyor Capital business unit.  He spent 9 years at Citadel and has 17 years of buyside experience with a primary focus on the Consumer Discretionary sector. Prior to his buyside career, Mr. Church worked as an equity research associate for Morgan Stanley and as an audit associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers. 

 Mr. Church holds a BS in Finance and Accounting from Boston College, and a CPA license in the State of New York.

Since joining Walleye in 2013, Mr. Murphy has focused on building risk-aware algorithmic trading strategies and developing the fund’s risk monitoring platform. He currently is responsible for building tools to help the firm’s leadership and its portfolio managers analyze risk and performance attribution.

Prior to joining Walleye, he spent 5 years at Axiom Investment Advisors as a quantitative analyst developing algorithmic FX and equity statistical arbitrage trading models. Mr. Murphy obtained a BA in Economics from the Honors program at the University of Wisconsin.

Mr. Ries joined Walleye in 2005 and was an integral part in building out Walleye’s market making platform. In 2017, Mr. Ries took over as head of the Index market making desk overseeing a group of traders on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. 

Prior to joining Walleye, Mr. Ries received his Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Illinois with an emphasis in quantum mechanics.

Mr. Tennican is a Senior Portfolio Manager leading an Equity Volatility Arbitrage group, which he has managed since joining Walleye in 2013.

Previously Mr. Tennican managed equity options portfolios as a lead market maker on the floor of the ARCA options exchange, as an off-floor market maker, and at a small volatility-focused hedge fund that he co-founded before merging its operations with Walleye.

Mr. Tennican holds a BA in History from UC Berkeley and an MFE from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.

Since joining Walleye in 2008, Mr. Fish has managed the Eurodollar and US Treasury options market making businesses. He currently oversees Interest Rates Volatility trading.

Mr. Fish previously worked at Arbitrade/Knight Financial Products/Citigroup Derivatives Markets as a market maker in equity and interest rate options. He began his career as a trader on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
 
Mr. Fish received a B.S. degree in Management from Brigham Young University.

Mr. Martin joined Walleye in 2020 as a Portfolio Manager focused on the Equity Capital Markets strategy.  Mr. Martin primarily focuses on emerging growth, private equity owned and venture funded companies as they enter the public markets, and companies looking to raise primary equity capital for strategic purposes through public offerings.  Mr. Martin also sits on the board of a publicly listed NYSE company and is a member of their audit committee.

Prior to joining Walleye, Mr. Martin cofounded Herndon Capital, a Washington, D.C. based private equity firm founded in 2019, and focused on companies within the national security and defense sectors. Prior to founding Herndon Capital, Mr. Martin was a portfolio manager with UBS O’Connor, a $6 billion multi strategy global hedge fund, where he managed a long/short equity portfolio and led the investment team through 600 initial public offerings and private placements, from 2012 to 2018. Prior to O’Connor, Mr. Martin was a Director on the convertible securities team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Mr. Martin served over a decade in the United States Navy.  As a SEAL officer, Mr. Martin served worldwide in several leadership roles as the operations officer of two SEAL Teams and as a deployed task unit commander. Mr. Martin conducted several deployments to include Afghanistan and Iraq and was awarded numerous combat awards and medals including the Bronze Star with Valor. Mr. Martin received a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with merit from the United States Naval Academy and currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors on the Navy SEAL Foundation.

Mr. McGehee joined Walleye in 2016, and oversees Walleye’s Quantitative Strategies.

Prior to joining Walleye, Mr. McGehee was a Portfolio Manager for BlueCrest Capital Management, where he led a team managing quantitative equity strategies for BlueCrest’s Strategic Equities Fund. Previously, he was Senior Portfolio Manager at Geode Capital Management where he oversaw management of all equity market neutral strategies at the company. He started his career as a management consultant at Bain & Company.

Mr. McGehee is a CFA charter holder and holds a B.A. degree in Mathematics and Statistics from Williams College.

Mr. Blake joined Walleye in 2020, and oversees Walleye’s Convertible Strategy.

Prior to joining Walleye, Mr. Blake was most recently a Senior Portfolio Manager at Geode Capital in Boston, where he managed their convertible bond strategy. Prior to joining Geode in 2015, Mr. Blake traded convertible bonds on the sell-side for ten years, initially at Goldman Sachs and later at Deutsche Bank.

Mr. Blake earned an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his graduate study, Mr. Blake worked in investment banking and in business development at two technology companies. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia.

Mr. Elamri is a specialist in derivative products and is responsible for oversight of regulatory compliance for all Walleye entities and affiliates.

Prior to joining the firm in 2009, he served as a Senior Compliance Officer at Citigroup Derivatives Markets, where he concentrated on building the compliance infrastructure for four years. From 2002 until 2005, Mr. Elamri worked in the Market Surveillance Department of the International Securities Exchange in New York.

Mr. Elamri earned a BA in Finance from the Institute of High Studies of Management in Casablanca, Morocco, and a Master of International Business from Jacksonville University.

Mr. Bacon was recruited by Walleye in 2008 to manage the firm's IT infrastructure.

He has spent most of his career in finance, first joining Arbitrade (later purchased by Knight) in 1998 and helping lead the expansion of the firm's electronic market-making platform across all of the major US options exchanges. Later he joined Citigroup where he held leadership roles in Global Equities derivatives technology. Prior to his career in finance, he worked for Collective Technologies as an IT consultant, and spent several years as a lead systems administrator at Michigan Technological University.

Mr. Bacon graduated summa cum laude from Michigan Technological University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.

Mr. Moeller has been General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of Walleye since January 2015. He manages the firm's legal department and is responsible for legal affairs of the company.  He is an integral part of company decision making in all areas, including regulatory, compliance, strategic direction and risk management.

Prior to joining Walleye, Mr. Moeller was Assistant General Counsel of Advantus Capital Management, a registered investment adviser based in St. Paul, Minnesota, that focused on institutional asset management. Prior to his work at Advantus, Mr. Moeller was an associate attorney in the corporate department of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, based in Minneapolis.

Mr. Moeller received a JD from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC and a BS, majoring in Finance, from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

Ms. Mikell began her association with Walleye in 2013 and is responsible for the onboarding of managers, including the coordination with our fund administrator and prime broker relationships.

Prior to joining Walleye, Ms. Mikell was Vice President at Goldman Sachs and Branch Manager of the Chicago and Philadelphia offices. She directed a team of professionals, including client service, membership, and technical support that provided clearing, execution, and financing services for a sophisticated derivative-focused client base. Ms. Mikell began her career in accounting at the Chicago Board Options Exchange and went on to work at Kessler Asher Group.

She received a BS in Commerce from DePaul University and an MBA from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management.