Russell Newton
Russell Newton
cofounded
Global Advisors in 1999. Since then he has focused on market research
and development of in-house trading systems. He is a Director of Global
Advisors (Jersey) Limited and Global Advisors (Holdings) Limited.
Global Advisors
launched the world’s first regulated bitcoin fund in 2014.
He is also Mentor at Jersey Coders.
Rus began his career as a crude oil trader for Royal Dutch/Shell in
1986. As head of Shell’s futures and forwards training, he was one of
the original developers for pricing models for the Brent CFD market. He
also worked for the Phibro Energy Division of Salomon, Inc. and Rhein
Oel Limited before joining J.P. Morgan in 1993. At Morgan, he served as
global commodities strategist, covering base and precious metals as well
as energy. He developed new derivative trade structures and new
techniques for researching, analyzing, and modeling markets.
He authored
Data Security,
Wage Inequality: How not to fix it,
National Health Service: Not National At All!,
Putting the Gini Back in the Bottle,
Mobile Telephony,
Should You Pay the Ransom?,
Dying on Payday,
Does the UK Need More Airports?,
Why Isn’t Software Regulated?, and
The Trouble With Trains.
Rus earned his BA (Hons) in Natural Sciences, Experimental Psychology
at the University of Cambridge in 1986.
Read his
AngelList profile and his
LinkedIn profile.
