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.

Jonathan joined Walleye in 2018 as Head of Marketing & Investor Relations and was named a partner in 2022. 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.