Nadir Gmira

Nadir Gmira is a London-based portfolio manager and venture partner. He studied applied mathematics at École polytechnique (2011-2014) and completed an M2 in Probabilities and Finance (former DEA El Karoui) at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (2014-2015), representing Morocco at the 47th International Mathematical Olympiad in 2006. His trading career includes volatility portfolio-management roles at the hedge funds Eisler Capital and Capstone Investment Advisors, a director role (X-commodity volatility) at Macquarie, and a commodity-volatility portfolio-manager position at Centiva Capital, alongside a research internship at the systematic fund Capital Fund Management. More recently he has held venture-partner and advisory roles (Alterius Group, Plutus Investment Group, Sense Street, Vemos).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Identity is supported by a named LinkedIn profile (linkedin.com/in/nadir-gmira-55677824) plus an independent trade-press article that names 'Nadir Gmira' as a portfolio-manager hire who left Eisler Capital after nine months for Capstone in September 2022, matching the LinkedIn role history. Employment in quantitative/volatility trading is confirmed by actual roles, not student programs: Volatility Portfolio Manager at Eisler Capital (a London multi-strategy hedge fund), Vol Portfolio Manager at Capstone Investment Advisors (a global alternative/volatility hedge fund), Director (X-commodity Vol) at Macquarie, Commodity Vol Portfolio Manager at Centiva Capital (a multi-strategy hedge fund), and a Research Internship at Capital Fund Management (CFM), a systematic/managed-futures fund. Employer classification: Eisler, Capstone, Centiva and CFM all operate in quantitative/systematic or volatility trading; Macquarie is a bank with commodity/vol trading. The UBS 'Quantitative Finance Project' (2012-2013, from the caller lead) is an academic/student project rather than confirmed employment.
• Called a 'Portfolio Manager/Angel/Adviser' in LinkedIn directory listings, consistent with a shift from trading roles into venture-partner and advisory positions (Alterius Group, Plutus Investment Group, Sense Street, Vemos).
• Named as a 'Portfolio Manager' at Centiva Capital while also listed as Venture Partner at Alterius Group and Plutus Investment Group, i.e. concurrent trading and venture roles rather than a clean single employer.
• On the FCA register (CRD NXG01473) as 'inactive' with 11 controlled-function roles and no disciplinary events (FirmTracer).
• Represented Morocco at the 47th International Mathematical Olympiad (2006) as Contestant 1, scoring 9 points and receiving an Honourable Mention.2006
• Appears in the French government's JORF (Journal officiel) records as a Moroccan national admitted to École polytechnique, corroborating the Morocco identity via the foreign-student integration route.
• Listed as an Advisor to Sense Street (a London AI/voice-analytics fintech), alongside its CEO Haroon Hassan and ML staff, on an org-page listing.
• Appears as a Venture Partner on Plutus Investment Group's investor listing.
• Sole UK company appointment on Companies House: PASCALVENTURES LTD (company no. 15719770), status Dissolved.
• Has a ResearchGate presence under 'Nadir GMIRA' affiliated with École Polytechnique's Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées (CMAP), consistent with the applied-mathematics education track.
• Has a personal Substack account (@nadirgmira) with 143 subscriptions; no authored publications were shown on the public profile page.
• A search aggregator categorised his role as 'Macro Volatility Portfolio Manager' at Capstone LLC; this is an aggregator record, not independent primary-source confirmation.