William Marr  

President & Chief Executive Officer,  Ramius Trading Strategies

 

William Marr is the President and Chief Executive Officer of RTS. Mr. Marr has managed proprietary capital for financial institutions since 1985 and has invested with external trading managers since 1997.

 

Prior to co-founding RTS, Mr. Marr was a Managing Director and Head of Hedge Fund Research and Portfolio Construction at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Marr joined Merrill Lynch in 2006 as Head of Directional Trading hedge fund strategies responsible for the FuturesAccess platform. In 2007, Mr. Marr spearheaded the launch of Systematic Momentum FuturesAccess which became Merrill Lynch's flagship multi-manager managed futures fund. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Marr was a Managing Director and Global Head of Alternative Investments for Julius Baer Investment Management, LLC, which he joined in July 2002 after serving as Senior Vice President and Head

of FX Trading and Sales at Bank Julius Baer. Prior to joining Bank Julius Baer in 1998, Mr. Marr was Vice President of FX Hedge Fund Development at AIG International. From 1985 to 1997, Mr. Marr actively traded and managed FX cash, futures, forwards and derivatives for international trading firms including Bankers Trust and UBS. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College.