Permanent address: 37 Regal Close, Ealing, Lon-don W5 2SB, UK.

Telephone: 07875 000073 Email:

r.nath@cosmoanelixis.gr

Date of birth: 3rd July 1972

EDUCATION:

1994-98 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Depart-ment of Mechanical Engineering, King’s CollegeLondon, University of London. Thesis title was“Finite element analysis of interfacial failuremechanisms in fibre-reinforced composites” andthe work was supervised by Dr David N. Fenner.Multiple Journal and Conference articles pub-lished.

1991-94 B.Sc.(Eng.) Engineering with BusinessStudies (Upper Second Class Honours), Depart-ment of Mechanical Engineering, King’s CollegeLondon, University of London. Thesis title was“Finite element modelling of interfacial failure incarbon fibre-epoxy resin composites”.

1993-94* Certificates in International Economicsand Finance (Level III Bachelor’s), and Intermedi-ate Macroeconomics and Intermediate Microeco-nomics (Level II Bachelor’s), London School ofEconomics, University of London. Attendance invarious courses in advanced probability and statis-

tics, monetary economics, public finance, financialderivatives theory, econometric time series analy-sis, London School of Economics and King’s Col-lege, University of London.

1991-92* Training in Monetary Policy Theory andimplementation in the Greek economy, open market operations coordination, Economic Research Division, Bank of Greece.

1989* Advanced short course in Earthquake Engi-neering, Institute of Earthquake Engineering andSeismology, Skopje, Yugoslavia.

*summer periods

CAREER:2011 - Executive Director, RG Commodities Ltd.& RGZ Ltd., investment research companies inLondon, specialising in portfolio optimisation consisting of commodities’ cointegrated spreads aswell as single instruments in key sectors of Energies, Agriculturals, Metals & Equity Indices.Work involves advanced econometric analysis aswell as creation of proprietary algorithms and yieldmetrics.

2002 - 12 Chief Examiner for Engineering CouncilUK for Postgraduate Course

“Computational mechanics using finite elementmethod”, code 9107-302.

DR. RAJAT B. NATHPH.D.(KCL), B.SC.(ENG.)

2002 - 11 Examiner for Senior Awards [GCGI &MCGI] for City and Guilds Institute.

2003 - 7 Member, National Advisory Committeefor Higher Awards, City & Guilds, London.

2000 - 3 Visiting Research Associate, Departmentof Mechanical Engineering, King’s College Lon-don, University of London.

1999 - 2002 Executive Director, Delta Forum Ltd.,a consultancy company specialising in the provi-sion of investment advice, given client’s risk atti-tude and portfolio requirements. Additionally, theorganisation of international conferences and semi-nars in both the academic and business fields.

2001 - 2002 Financial Controller, Magnet Corpora-tion Ltd., A catering company based in

Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Work involvedpreparation of Trading and Profit & Loss accounts,Balance Sheets, VAT returns, PAYE scheme pay-ments and returns.

2000 Lecturer, Advanced Statistics and Finance(Corporate and Investment), MBA course, Euro-pean School of Economics, London.

1999 - 2001 Lecturer, Business Data Research andAccounting, Thames Valley University, London.Assisting and teaching students with dyslexia withthe aid of Buzan memory maps.

1999 Chairman of Organising Committee, Interna-tional Conference on Business &

Investment in the Balkan and Western-CISEconomies, 7-9 July 1999, Athens Inter-Continen-tal Hotel. Organised in collaboration with theGreek Ministry of National

Economy and Birkbeck College, University ofLondon, National Technical University of Athensand sponsored by National Bank of Greece, Wall

Street Journal Europe, and 3-Epsilon.

1998 Since obtaining my PhD from King's in 1998I have continued to assist Dr Fenner, on a part-timebasis, with his ongoing research into the failuremechanisms of fibre-reinforced composites usingnon-linear finite element analysis. This is a collab-orative project with Prof. Costas Galiotis (formerlyQMW) who is an authority on the use of LRS tech-niques for the experimental measurement of strainin fibre-reinforced composites. Experimental re-sults provided by Prof. Galiotis are used to validatethe predictions of the FE modelling at King's. Thisinterdisciplinary approach has lead to a steadystream of publications and to an improved under-standing of the factors involved in the failure ofcomposites.

1989 U.K. Patent awarded for an oil recovery de-vice (skimmer-type)

1987 - 93* Legal assistant, Vickers & Co. (for-merly Kidgells & Co.) Solicitors. Representedcompany at Crown Court hearings as well as per-forming various administrative and filing duties.*summer periods

PUBLICATIONSPublications A - Journal Articles:

Nath,R.B., Fenner,D.N. & Galiotis,C., Finite ele-ment modelling of interfacial failure in model car-bon fibre-epoxy composites. J.Mat.Sci., 1996,Vol.31, No.11, pp.2879-2883.

Nath,R.B., Fenner, D.N. & Galiotis,C., Elasto-plas-tic finite element modelling of interfacial failure inmodel Kevlar 49 fibre-epoxy composites. J. Com-posites Part A - Appl. Sci. & Manuf., 1996,Vol.27A, No.9, pp. 821-832.

Nath,R.B., Fenner, D.N. & Galiotis,C., The Pro-gressional Approach to interfacial failure in carbon reinforced composites: elasto-plastic finite elementmodelling of interface cracks. J. Composites Part A

- Appl. Sci. & Manuf., 2000, Vol.31A, pp. 929-943.Sirivedin, S., Fenner, D.N., Nath, R.B., &Galiotis, C., Matrix crack propagation criteria forshort carbon fibre-epoxy composites. J. Compos-ites Science and Technology, 2000, Vol.60, pp.2835-2847.

Sirivedin, S., Fenner, D.N., Nath, R.B., Effects ofinter-fibre spacing and matrix cracks on stress am-plification factors in carbon fibre/epoxy matrixcomposites, Part I: Planar array of fibres. J. Com-posites Part A - Appl. Sci. & Manuf., 2003,Vol.34A, pp. 1227-1234.

Sirivedin, S., Fenner, D.N., Nath, R.B., & Galiotis,C., Viscoplastic analysis of matrix crack propaga-tion in the fragmentation test for model continu-ous-carbon fibre/epoxy matrix composites, To bepublished in J. Composites Part A - Appl. Sci. &Manuf., 2006, Vol.37A, pp. 1922-1935.

Sirivedin, S., Fenner, D.N., Nath, R.B., Effects ofinter-fibre spacing and matrix cracks on stress am-plification factors in carbon fibre/epoxy matrixcomposites, Part II: Hexagonal array of fibres. J.Composites Part A - Appl. Sci. & Manuf., 2006,Vol.37A, pp. 1936-1943.

Margaronis, Z.N.P., Karanasos, M., Nath, R.B., Anadvanced approach to algorithmic portfolio man-agement, in preparation.

Margaronis, Z.N.P., Karanasos, M., Nath, R.B.,The significance of rollover in commodity returnsusing PARCH models, in preparation.

Publications B - Conferences:

Nath,R.B., Fenner, D.N. & Galiotis,C. Finite ele-ment analysis of interfacial failure modes in modelcarbon & Kevlar fibre composites. Proc.3rdInt.Conference on Deformation & Fracture inComposites, 1995, Univ.of Surrey, 606-609, TheInstitute of Materials.

Nath,R.B., Fenner,D.N. & Galiotis,C. Progressionof interfacial failure in Kevlar 49 & carbon fibrecomposites: an elasto-plastic finite element analy-sis. Proc.7th European Conference on CompositeMaterials, London, May 1996, 27-32, The Instituteof Materials, Woodhead Publishing Ltd.

Nath,R.B., Fenner, D.N. & Galiotis,C. Interfacialfailure progression in carbon and Kevlar-49 rein-forced composites: 2-D and 3-D elasto-plastic fi-nite element modelling of cracks in single andmulti-fibre specimens. Proc. 5th Int. Conference onInterfacial Phenomena in Composite Materials,1997, Eger, Hungary.

Sirivedin,S., Nath,R.B., Fenner, D.N. & Galiotis,C.Effects of inter-fibre spacing on the stress redistrib-ution in planar array and hexagonal array fibrecomposites. Proc. 7th International Pacific Confer-ence on Manufacturing & Management, Novem-ber, 2002, Vol.1, 89-94, Bangkok, Thailand.

Publications C - Miscellaneous:

Nath,R.B., “Computational mechanics using finiteelement method”, Postgraduate Diploma Examina-tion code 9107-302, Engineering Council 2003-12.

Nath,R.B., UK Patent GB2233573A - Filed 11 July1989, Published 13 October 1993. Title ‘Oil Re-covery’, International classification E02B 15/10,Domestic classification

B1D DPHA.

Nath, R.B., “The mechanics of monetary and creditaggregates in the monetary balance sheet”, withProf. Willem Buiter, LSE, 1993.

Publications Reviewed:

Patzek et al., Ethanol from corn: Renewable fuelfor the future, or drain on our resources and pock-ets? Environment, Development and Sustainability,Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Buekens et al., ch. 8 Risk Analysis, EnvironmentalManagement in Practice, Vol I, eds. B. Nath et al.,Routledge Publishers.

Verbruggen A., ch. 16 Economic Instruments forEnvironmental Management, Environmental Man-agement in Practice, Vol. I, eds. B. Nath et al.,Routledge Publishers.

Lim et al., Geometrical non-linearity of textilecomposites in large deformation, Advanced Com-posites Letters.

Kimpara et al., Finite element stress analysis of in-terlayer based on selective layerwise higher-ordertheory, J. Composites.

Selected Projects in which acted as co-supervisoror consultant:

“Stochastic Spatial Discretisation and Computa-tional Plasticity in Metallic Foams and Metals”,PhD Engineering thesis, 2012, Dept. Aeronautics,Imperial College.

“Algorithmic approach to trading systems usingcommodities” PhD Finance thesis, 2012, Dept.Economics, Brunel University.

“Analysis of cointegration relationships in crudeoil futures” MSc Commodities and Finance thesis,2009, Dept. Economics, Birkbeck College London.

“Ship Monitoring Systems for Bulk Carriers”,MSc. thesis, 2004, Dept. Mechanical Engineering,University College London.

“Hysteresis in short reinforced-concrete columnsunder cyclic loading using finite element analysis”,MSc. thesis, 2004, Dept. Civil Engineering, CityUniversity.

“Correlation of monetary base with interest ratesand GDP based on UK data”, Pg.Cert. Finance the-sis, 2002, Dept. Economics, Birkbeck College

London.

“Micromechanics of progressive failure in carbonfibre-reinforced composites using finite elementmethod”, PhD thesis, 2001, Dept. Mechanical En-gineering, King’s College London.

“On the unsteady boundary layer and wake of aflat plate, and modelling water flow near a ship-side”, PhD thesis, 2000, Dept. Mathematics, Uni-versity College London.

“Financial modelling of franchise systems in thefast food business”, BA thesis, 2000, School ofBusiness, Thames Valley University.

“3D Finite Element Analysis of a standard rail sec-tion under loading of a passing train”, ErasmusThesis, 1997, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Uni-versity of Patras, Greece.

“Finite element analysis of fibre reinforced com-posites”, C-K. Ooi, BSc thesis, 1997, Dept. Me-chanical Engineering, King’s College London.

COMPUTING ABILITY:

Financial Trading Algorithms:

Development and optimisation of proprietary com-modity trading algorithms and metrics capitalisingon cointegrated pairs and single instruments pricebehaviour.

Futures Trading Platform:

CQG Integrated-Client/Q-Trader (DMA & Level IImarket depth).

Finite Element Software:

SIMULIA-ABAQUS/CAE [HKS/Dassault Sys-tèmes] - UMAT subroutines - PYTHON scripts,ANSYS/Flotran, Fiesta, FemGen (Pre-processor),

FemView (Post-processor) [Femsys Ltd./TNODiana BV].

Programming Languages:

C, C++, Fortran 95, Fortran 77.Statistical analysis software:

E-Views [QMS/HIS], Minitab, Stata, R, SPSS,MatLab, MathCAD.

Drawing and Publishing software:

Dogs, AutoCad, Adobe InDesign, MS Publisher.

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Microsoft Office suite:

Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.

Operating Systems:

Windows and Unix.

Limited Company and Taxation Operations:

Incorporating Limited Companies in UK with vari-ous capital structures involving ordinary and pref-erence share classes and debt seniorities.

Filing of Annual Returns and other CompaniesHouse documents.

Preparation of Corporate accounts [Balance sheets,

Profit & Loss and Cash Flow statements] for Com-panies House and HMRC.

Preparation of Corporation Tax returns and compu-tations, VAT, PAYE payroll schemes, and Self As-sessment for HMRC.

Drafting of wide range of Term Sheets, Loan Con-tracts and Shareholder Agreements.

Foreign Languages:

Modern Greek [fluent - Business, economic, scien-tific, cultural]

French [intermediate]

Indian- Kutchi [elementary]

Turkish [elementary]

Serbo-Croat [elementary]

Other Interests:

Current world affairs, environmental policy, educa-tion policy; 20th century history and politics.

Greek political affairs specifically economy andeducation.

Classical music including works by Mozart, Rach-maninov, Chopin, and Brahms.