Ruud Smets

Ruud Smets, CAIA worked at the interest rate derivatives desk of NIBCapital before joining Theta in November 2005. Prior to joining NIBCapital in 2004 Ruud worked at FundPartners, a company focusing on structured product solutions and hedge fund investments for institutional investors, where he was responsible for the hedge fund allocation of a large Dutch pension fund. Ruud has obtained his master's degrees in Business Economics and Information Technology from Tilburg University in 2002 and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).