LEADERSHIP & QUANTITATIVE ENGINEERING

The architects of
next-generation execution.

Spiral Global is led by seasoned capital market veterans, distributed systems engineers, and algorithmic researchers united by a commitment to institutional reliability.

100+ Global Engineers
London • Singapore • New York
GOVERNANCE & STEWARDSHIP

Board of Directors

Providing strategic guidance, institutional risk oversight, and global capital market governance.

Strategy & Governance

Qadri EBRAHEEM Al Kujjah

Board Director & Strategic Advisor

Qadri EBRAHEEM Al Kujjah is a distinguished corporate leader and strategic advisor serving on the Board of Directors at Spiral Global. With extensive experience across international finance, commercial strategy, and multi-jurisdictional governance, Qadri provides high-level counsel on market expansion, regulatory alignment, and long-term organizational value creation.Throughout his career, Qadri has held executive and non-executive advisory roles for prominent institutional and family-office investment groups across the Middle East and international markets. His strategic stewardship ensures Spiral Global maintains the highest standards of operational resilience, risk governance, and client-centric integrity.
Executive Leadership

Philippe Ghanem

Board Director & Founding Partner

Philippe Ghanem is a co-founder and managing director of Spiral Global with over 15 years experience in the financial sector.In 2005 Philippe founded finance firm, ADSS (Abu Dhabi Financial Services), and spent the early part of his career building the company into a leading institutional brokerage firm in the Middle East region. Philippe has built several successful ventures including a regulated Swiss Bank, an asset management company and was also one of the first people to launch an automated multi-asset class trading platform in the Middle East.His career is defined by his passion and expertise in multi-asset class trading and financial technology.
Risk & Compliance

Dr. Vijay Singh

Chief Finance and Risk Officer

Dr. Singh has over 20 years of professional experience in the US, India, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Dr. Singh joined Spiral Global as Chief Risk Officer in 2010. In this role, he maintains comprehensive oversight of all risk at Spiral Global and its subsidiary company Spiral Global.During the last ten years Dr. Singh was the Vice President of Finance and Chief Risk Officer at PPL Corp (Allentown, PA), a Fortune 300 company engaged in the generation, trading, hedging and distribution of electric power and energy products in the US and UK. While at PPL Corp, he managed a US $2 billion pension fund and held oversight for the business planning and market, credit and operational risk functions.
GLOBAL MANAGEMENT & DESKS

Executive Leadership

Decades of combined institutional pedigree across global tier-1 financial hubs, asset management, and high-frequency trading architecture.

Matteo Legler
Executive Committee

Matteo Legler

Chief Operating Officer, Head of Global Markets, Wealth Management and Asset Management

Nael Salam
Front Office

Nael Salam

Managing Director, Global Head Front Office

Gania Freyson
Fund Management

Gania Freyson

Senior Consultant Investment Fund Manager

Darrell Huncher
Fund Management

Darrell Huncher

Senior Consultant Investment Fund Manager

Claus Nouveau-Nikolajsen
Investment Banking

Claus Nouveau-Nikolajsen

Managing Director, Global Head of Global Markets & Investment Banking

Miguel Osmann
Operations

Miguel Osmann

Managing Director, Global Head Operations

Spencer Artino
Fund Management

Spencer Artino

Senior Fund Manager

Iskandar Najjar
Middle East

Iskandar Najjar

Managing Director, Head of Middle East Sales

Michael Bills
London Desk

Michael Bills

Managing Director, London

Francis Lee
Asia-Pacific

Francis Lee

Managing Director, Head of Asia

Jeffery Larsen
Investment Advisory

Jeffery Larsen

Certified Investment Manager

Andreas Lazarou
Marketing

Andreas Lazarou

Senior Director, Head of Marketing

Stephen Davie
Communications

Stephen Davie

Senior Director, Communications Director

Tim Merryweather
Finance

Tim Merryweather

Senior Director, Head of Finance

Andrew Rossiter
Technology

Andrew Rossiter

Managing Director, Global Head Information Technology

Michelle Wiener
Portfolio Management

Michelle Wiener

Senior Portfolio Manager

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Specialized Engineering Desks

Operating across Equinix LD4 (London), NY4 (New York), and TY3 (Tokyo) financial hubs.

Core Engine Desk

Engineers in C++20 and Rust building zero-allocation lock-free matching orderbooks.

Liquidity Routing

Direct dark-pool and interbank FIX bridges ensuring minimum slippage and optimal price feeds.

24/7 Global SOC

Active threat mitigation, DDoS shielding, and continuous live telemetry monitoring.

Quant Analytics

Developing real-time volatility indices and institutional market depth visualizers.

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