Hey, I’m Zach - A Financial
Analyst from London.

Private Equity Co-Investments & Primaries

Private Equity Direct Investments (Industrials)

Fundamental Research: Special Situations (Listed Equities) & Commodities

Mortgage-Backed Securities, Structured Credit Securities

Inaugural Discover Citadel and Citadel Securities Programme

Next-generation high-speed transport network

Classification: First Class Honours
Relevant Modules: Engineering Mathematics in Finance (91%), Mathematical Modelling & Analysis II (94%)
Societies: Economics and Finance (EFS) Mentor, Investment Society Mentor, Data Science

Concentration: Major in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Minor in Finance
Relevant Modules: Introduction to Finance and Marketing for Engineers, Statistical Models in Finance

Academic Scholarship (Mathematics)
A-levels: A* Maths, A Further Maths, A Physics and B Chemistry

Backpacked across three continents and fifteen countries in a six-month period

Countries visited: Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam

View photography from the trip here: @zxchphoto

First author of “Smart Anomaly Detection for Slocum Underwater Gliders with a Variational Autoencoder with Long Short-Term Memory Networks” which was published in the March 2022 edition of Applied Ocean Research

Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2021.103030

• Sponsored by Goldman Sachs and Jane Street
• 1st Place – Developed systematic trading strategy which realised a 39.78% return over a 26-day live trading period
• Generated trade signals using momentum-based indicators to allocate positions in a long/short portfolio of assets
• Developed the strategy in python and backtested using the QuantConnect platform

• Sponsored by Microsoft and American Express
• Winning team - ‘Best technical analysis at the DSS Hackathon 2019’
• Utilized Azure Machine Learning to predict the credit risk of customers applying for loans from a range of factors
• Produced a business proposal built from our results and presented to a panel of industry experts at the Microsoft Reactor offices
• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/educator-developer-blog/ucl-data-science-society-microsoft-hackathon-challenge-winners/ba-p/1154068

• Expedition: Two 4-day expeditions across the black mountains in Wales
• Physical: UCL Emperors American Football team (2 Years)
• Volunteering: Scope Charity Shop (12 Months)
• Skill: Photography (6 Months)
• Residential: 5 Day Salkantay Hike to Machu Picchu covering 89km

• Week-long program including introductory classes, lectures and workshops for economics, law, and political sciences
• Opportunities to develop my teamwork, problem solving and presentation skills through numerous projects

• Design Museum's international award-winning, student design and enterprise competition. Delivered product pitch to a panel of Design Museum judges and a Deutsche Bank Director. Our product Pics Pins was sold in the design museum shop, raising money for Tay Sachs sufferers
• Team leader and Head of Finance; Identified target audience and priced product accordingly, calculated profit margins over a six-month period based on material cost and sales volume
• https://www.wallpaper.com/design/winners-of-design-ventura-announced-at-the-design-museum-london
• https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/february-2013/pics-pins/