About Us

Before Co-Founding Soundwatch Capital LLC, Robert worked for more than 20 years in structuring and managing derivative investments and teams for Global Banks in London, Paris, Tokyo, and New York. Most recently, he was Managing Director and Head of Equities and Equity Derivatives at RBS Americas. Before returning to the US, Robert worked from 1999 to 2009 for ABN AMRO and RBS in London as a Managing Director of Equity Derivatives Trading, where he helped build their Global Investor Products business into a global leader in exchange listed option based products. Previously, Robert had worked for Bankers Trust in Equity Derivatives Trading and Societe Generale in Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity Derivatives Structuring. He has a BS from University of Delaware and an MBA from Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Before Co-Founding Soundwatch Capital LLC, Jan worked for more than 30 years building and managing investment products and teams at Financial Institutions in Amsterdam, London and New York. Jan started ABN AMRO Equity Derivatives with 2 other colleagues in Amsterdam in 1992, helping to build it into a globally recognized multi-billion dollar derivatives business as Managing Director and Head of Dutch and US markets. He Co-Founded Volteq Capital in 2002, an Investment Company managing a hedged equity fund and a volatility fund. He also worked as an advisor for ABN AMRO, Milliman and a Dutch public housing association, restructuring their multi-billion loan and derivatives portfolio. Jan has an MBA from RSM Erasmus University in the Netherlands and Masters in Physics from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.