Samuel Livingstone, CFA, Founder & Managing Director at Signal & Craft
Sam has held a number of senior buy-side roles, most recently as Head of Quantitative Strategies and Risk at Ambienta, and Head of Data Science and Data Engineering at Jupiter Asset Management. Previously, he was a data scientist in Global Equities (now International Equities) at Citadel. He has also worked as a quant researcher on the Quantitative Equity Products (QEP) investment desk at Schroders and as a quant analyst at Willis Towers Watson. Sam began his career in 2010 in trading, with positions at IG Group and Ion Trading.
Sam recently founded Signal & Craft, a specialist consultancy helping organisations navigate the intersection of talent, technology, data, and artificial intelligence. He is also the founder of Eco AI, a scientific and technical start-up focused on sustainable machine learning for ESG investing, developed in collaboration with UCL as part of his ongoing PhD studies.
He holds a first-class honours degree in Economics & Business and a Master of Science in Economics, Accounting & Finance from the University of Bristol. Sam is a CFA Charterholder and is currently studying for a PhD in sustainable machine learning within the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL).