Mr. Webb is Trading Principal & Chief Investment Officer atΒ Blue Creek Capital Management LLC. Mr. Webb was listed as a principal on 18th August 2020 and became a registered person of Blue Creek Capital Management LLC on 20th August 2020.Mr. Webb has a 1st class degree in Economics and Maths from The London School of Economics (LSE) and a 1st class degree in Computer Science from The Nottingham University (NU). Mr. Webb started his career in May 1993 working for theΒ Hull Trading Company, Inc. based in London on theΒ LIFFE Exchange floorΒ as an assistant trader, looking for arbitrage opportunities in various assets between London, Frankfurt and Chicago.
Mr. Webb moved toΒ Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in September 1999 as part of the Hull Trading Company acquisition . As an associate director for Over the Counter (OTC) Currency Options. Mr. Webb was responsible for the JPY, GBP and DEM Options desk until February 2001. Mr. Webb moved to Goldman Sachs Group, Inc, Tokyo in March 2001 to be the Director of Exotic Japanese Yen Currency Options. This role was split between time spent in Tokyo & London. Mr. Webb grew the Exotic desk to the largest interbank desk in Yen Options globally and saw profits rise 220% during 2001-2004. He held this position until July 2004.
Mr. Webb started his own family fund in September 2004. This business was focused on electronic market making Crude Oil Options on the NYMEX and IPE exchanges (Now CME & ICE). Mr. Webbβs deep awareness of the technical advances enabled this business to thrive. Mr. Webb simultaneously set up a technology company in September 2004, this was focused purely as a low-latency technology company in the fiber and microwave space. Mr. Webb privately sold this company in September 2010 (Mr. Webb retained 100% of the shareholding until the time of sale).
In Jan 2014 Mr. Webb established a consulting business (Closed November 2019) , to assist liquidity provision organizations with their Option price modelling and order-routing challenges between exchanges.
In January 2019 Mr. Webb co-foundedΒ Macrohedged, a small global macro research company focused purely on the Options on Futures markets looking for opportunities in Option Skewness and relative value strategies. This platform has proved widely popular and forms an ongoing source of alpha in the commodities and fixed income arena.
Mr. Webb held seats on the NYMEX exchange and CME IMM from 2004.
Mr. Webb is a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) registered with the CFTC and a member of the National Futures Association (0486265).
Mr. Webb has operated profitably as an independent market maker and fund operator since 2004, adapting and embracing new technology. Applying changes to models and market conditions. The last few years though, Mr. Webb has noticed a decline in profitability in the market making arena and focused on alpha extraction from skewness and relative value strategies. It is this area that shows a greater opportunity moving forwards.