Kirill is one of the founding partners of Fusion, the firm's managing partner and Chief Investment Officer. Fusion manages multi-asset volatility strategies, as well as asset-specific funds in FX and Equities, and funds are available in offshore format, UCITS and managed accounts. Since being established in 2004, Fusion has grown dynamically across both fund products and advisory services.
Prior to founding Fusion, Kirill worked for four years at Chase Manhattan Bank, later JP Morgan Chase. He was responsible inter alia for optimal delta hedging and quantitative proprietary trading strategies. In 2002, Kirill was invited to join the Equity-Linked Products Group, where he developed cross-asset risk management strategies and co-founded the JP Morgan Debt-Equity Relative Value Group. Kirill and his team developed the "Credit Risk Reversal" model for hedging credit and equity derivatives, cited as one of the key achievements when JP Morgan won the IFR "Derivative House of the Year" award in 2003.
Kirill graduated with an MSc in theoretical physics from St. Petersburg State University, where he received the Lenin Scholarship for academic excellence. He then completed a PhD at the Stekhlov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he was awarded the Euler Scholarship by the German Mathematical Society.