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Cyril Caillault is a cross-asset portfolio manager in the discretionary portfolio management team of the Bank and is a member of the asset allocation investment committee. He joined the Lombard Odier Group in December 2009 as Head of Quantitative Portfolio Management within Lombard Odier Investment Managers' (LOIM) Fixed Income & Currencies Group. Prior to joining LOIM, Cyril was a fixed income quantitative portfolio manager responsible for the quantitative strategies and was promoted to head of Fixed income and Currencies quantitative strategies following the merger with ABN AMRO Asset Management in 2008. He began his career as a quantitative analyst at Dexia Crédit Local in 2001, developing models on interest rates and asset allocation. Cyril earned a Ph.D in economics and management from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France) in 2005 where he developed quantitative techniques to compute risk measures (Expected Shortfall and Value at Risk). He also holds a master’s degree in mathematical finance from the University of Reims (France) and is the author of many professional and academic publications.

Paul Bésanger is a portfolio manager and quantitative analyst with a focus on asset allocation. He manages the Lombard Odier Asset Allocation Funds (Private Bank) and is a member of the Bank’s investment committee. He joined Lombard Odier’s graduate program in 2010 and gained experience in portfolio advisory, fixed income advisory and investment risk. Paul holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is an alumni of the University of St. Gallen (HSG). He is a CFA Charterholder.