Hedge fund Millennium's London hiring spree includes Rust engineers
Millennium has been hiring in 2025, and it appears to have a favorite office. A number of senior staff, including traders, technologists, quants and risk staff, have all joined the hedge fund in London.
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Millenium's London recruits this year include multiple portfolio managers (PMs). Philippe Matthieu, a one-time former CIO of prop trading at JPMorgan, who joined Millennium as a senior PM after a decade running his own fund, Prima Res Capital in Paris.
Other trading staff brought to Millennium in 2025 include Brevan Howard PM Tom Stevens who joined Millennium after over a decade spent at the rival fund. Point72 PM Adam Clevenger also joined; he was previously EMEA head of FX options trading at Morgan Stanley. Azeem Arshad joined as an equity derivatives trader after 11 years working in listed derivatives execution sales trading for Deutsche Bank.
Millennium also hired a senior technologist in Karan Lohia. He now leads the technology team for Millennium's treasury quants, joining from London hedge fund Capula where he was head of risk technology for the past three years. He also previously ran risk technology at Mike Platt's hedge fund, BlueCrest.
Senior non-trading hires include Stuart Pradhan, formerly head of asset management controls at Citadel, who joins Millennium as an execution risk lead. Virat Agarwal joins as a senior structurer in the fund's equities team after 14 years with UBS.
The hiring might not be stopping any time soon. 57 of Millennium's 239 current job openings are in London, more than any of its other offices. One of those listings is for a C#/Rust developer; they're tasked with maintaining current C# applications but "build[ing] new applications in Rust."
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