Before co-founding Strategic Capital Services, Kurt was a Vice President at Credit Suisse Financial Products in London responsible for managing structured derivative risk. Duties incorporated structuring and proprietary trading of financial products on international equity indices and stocks and managing the resulting equity, FX and interest rate risk.
Prior to joining CSFP in 1993 Kurt traded warrants and options on various exchanges for Bankers Trust International in Frankfurt and London and traded money market instruments for Bank of N.T. Butterfield in Bermuda.
Kurt is Bermudian and has a B.Sc in Economics and Economics Computer Coordinate from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
Kurt is currently head equity of equity derivatives for Asia for Royal Bank of Scotland, previously ran equity derivatives trading for Asia at HSBC and ran equity related businesses for Barclays Capital in Asia.