Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan tech MDs are leaving for hedge fund Millennium
It's a tale as old as time for a banking technologist to be tempted over to a multistrategy hedge fund. Two MDs have recently trodden that beaten path and joined Millennium, despite working at different banks and in different continents.
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Katarina Hunt joined Millennium in London as its head of risk engineering. She spent the last 13 years at Goldman Sachs, where she was most recently global head of engineering for equity derivatives and equity risk. We highlighted her as one of the fastest rising VPs at Goldman just over a decade ago; she made MD five years after that, and five years further on, she's now joining Millennium.
In New York, meanwhile, Millennium hired James Clennell from JPMorgan as its head of credit technology. He spent over two decades at the bank, starting as an analyst in its middle office and working his way up to MD in 2024. He was most recently global head of credit trading and risk management technology; he left the bank late last year and spent the first half of 2026 working on a motorsports data platform.
It's not all about hiring technologists from banks, or even hedge funds these days. Electronic trading firms like Jane Street are on the rise and funds are building out their low latency architecture to compete with them. In April, we noted that Millennium hired Alexandre Fournier, former CTO of Tower Research Capital, for a senior role in its algorithmic execution team.
Millennium did not respond to a request for comment.
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