Dealing
with emerging and frontier market risks led Bruno Choumon to create
in 2016 Shem Energy Ltd, a UK based
company that designs, builds
and
finances solar power stations as well as hybrid power Plants (Solar-Gas) backed
by Power Purchase Agreements.
Bruno
held director and managing director positions in his career in bond
trading, asset management, credit structuring with different
underlying
assets (Credit,CDS, Interest Rates, Residential and Commercial Mortgages, Receivables, Loans, Shipping/Aircraft
loans, FX,
Commodities, Life Insurance).
Bruno
has been a Founding Partner and a Board Member since 2007 of IdVector Ltd,
Research&Development R&D Fund based in London that
brings
Institutional quality investment to R&D.
From
2014 to 2016, Bruno worked at Berkeley
Asset Management in London,Mayfair,
a hedge fund specialized in distressed assets.
Prior
to Berkeley AM, Bruno worked for two swiss investment firms from 2011
to 2014 Banque HERITAGE - Geneva then
for its subsidiary
HERITAGE Capital -London followed
by Swiss Investment Corp.
Bruno
worked previously at EVOLUTION Securities in 2010/2011 after he
joined in 2007 HSH NORDBANK a
german
bank, leader in shipping,
aircraft
and renewable energy financing.
In
2002, Bruno was in charge credit and interest rate structuring for continental
Europe at NOMURA
that he left in 2005.
From
1998 to 2001, He was Head of
Credit Derivative Structuring at Société Générale
where he launched the first French CLO, Polaris, jointly
with
LEHMAN following
the 2 programmes Certain Funding and Antalis
to fund
Société Générale
balance-sheet.
At
BARCLAYS Capital,
from 1995 to 1997, Bruno played a key role as a Head of Credit Trading to
get in 1996 the prestigious SVT primary
dealership
status (Spécialiste en Valeurs
du Trésor).
He
started his career at Credit Agricole Indisuez Group in
1989 as a credit trader, then a structured credit trader.
Bruno
is a graduated and certified
Actuary from ISFA (Institut
de Sciences
Financière et Actuarielle),
degree concluded by a thesis on yield
curve
modelling applied to credit risk implying endogenous and exogenous
factors in the framework of Asset and Liability Management.
Bruno
is fluent in french (native), english, spanish.
