Gavin Pownall

Gavin Pownall is a Quant Developer specializing in Risk at Hidden Road since August 2025. Prior to this role, Gavin held various positions in quantitative analysis and data science, including Senior Quantitative Analyst and Technical Product Lead at Quantile, a part of LSEG Business, from August 2023 to July 2025, and Lead Data Scientist at Util from January 2023 to July 2023. Previous experience includes working as a Quantitative Researcher at Maven Securities and a Quantitative Analyst at Fairwater Capital LLP, where responsibilities involved consultancy and data lake management for financial instruments. Gavin began a research career as a Graduate Research Assistant at DESY from July 2017 to April 2021. Academic credentials include a D.Phil in Elementary Particle Physics from the University of Oxford and a Master's degree in Physics from The University of Manchester.