People

Portfolio Management is independent from Compliance and Risk Management. Our success is driven by people.

Portfolio Management, Sales, R&D

Tillmann Sachs, Ph.D.

CIO and Head of Research

Dr. Tillmann Sachs is Chief Investment Officer, Head of Research and Founder of J8 Capital Management LLP. He manages the J8 Global Absolute Return UCITS Fund and managed accounts.
Prior to establishing J8 in 2012, Tillmann was a derivatives marketer and originator for customized rule-based trading strategies with Barclays, UBS, and AIG.
Tillmann earned a Ph.D. in applying artificial intelligence to risk quantification from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, a Dipl.-Ing. in Civil Engineering from RWTH Aachen in Germany, and a M.S. in Construction Management from Hanyang University in South Korea.

Anil Iqbal

Portfolio Management and Systems

Anil Iqbal joined J8 in September 2016 as trader and systems quant. Prior to J8, he worked 14 years for commodities trading houses EDF Trading and Barclays Capital. During that time, he was in charge of intra-day trading and transmission optimisation, trade executions on exchanges and FX hedging for European Power & Gas. He also took part in fundamental analysis and modelling combined for linear and non-linear products.
More recently at Barclays, Anil worked in the Treasury department, specifically liquidity risk management, ensuring that the Basel 3 rules were implemented in the funds transfer process.

Prof. Robert Tiong

Research and Index Committee

Dr. Robert Tiong is a member of the Index Oversight and Maintenance Committee of the J8 CTA Index.
Robert is an Associate Professor at the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Deputy Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Systems at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.
Prof. Tiong has published extensively on project financing and financial modelling.

David Bee

David Bee helps J8 develop its investor base since December 2017.
David has over 30 years experience in Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) from working within Investment Banking, Wholesale, Corporate, Private Banking and Wealth Management as Country Head and on Regional and Global levels with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered and Lloyds Banking Group.
Starting his career in London, and moving on to lead and build high performing client focused businesses in Tokyo, Singapore, Milan, Stockholm and New York, David brings international outlook and growth experience to J8.

Compliance, Risk Management

Sandy Chu

COAO and Compliance

Sandy Chu joined J8 and the board of J8 Umbrella Funds SICAV plc in October 2012. She is J8’s Compliance Officer and Chief Operating and Administrative Officer.
Sandy has over 18 years of executive management experience in timing and workflow automation in the international shipping industry including Maersk Line and being the owners representative for Team Lines Deutschland GmbH in the UK.
She holds an Investment Management Certificate from the CFA UK and a Bachelor of Business in Actuarial Science from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Ian Fridlington

Distribution and Risk Management

Ian Fridlington joined J8 in January 2017 as risk manager and to support distribution.
Ian has over 30 years experience in providing investment management solutions to UK and global wealth management businesses, with over 15 years experience in alternative strategies. Previously a Partner with private equity firm CopperTree Capital Management Ltd, Private Client Director with Veritas Asset Management (UK) Ltd and Head of Investment Strategy at Ansbacher & Co Limited, Ian has also held investment and client facing roles within retail and international banking groups.
Ian holds the Investment Management Certificate from the CFA UK and is an Associate of the London Institute of Banking & Finance.

Irmin Hauke

Senior Consultant, Origination

Irmin Hauke first joined J8 Capital Management LLP in July 2014 and is a senior consultant to the company on portfolio management, new products, and origination.
Prior to J8, Irmin was a Senior Portfolio Manager with Assenagon Asset Management S.A. for 6 years and Financial Engineer, futures and options trader at Bayerische Landesbank for 9 years. He graduated from the University Nuertingen with a Master in Business Administration, majoring in banking, financial management and controlling.