Rachid Bouzouba

Mr. Rachid Bouzouba is Co-Chief Executive Officer & Founding Partner at MCM Asia Ltd. Prior to this appointment, he was head of Global Equities at Nomura.
In this capacity, he was a member of the Global Wholesale Executive Committee of the firm and Chairman of the Global Equities Executive Committee.
He joined Nomura as Head of Equities, EMEA in October 2008.
As Head of Equities EMEA at Lehman Brothers, he negotiated and arranged the Nomura acquisition of 750 equity staff and 2000 support personnel in Europe following the Lehman bankruptcy in 2008.
Within the first 12 months at Nomura, he and his colleagues built a profitable European equities business for Nomura and became the largest equities broker on the London Stock Exchange.
Mr. Bouzouba joined Lehman Brothers in May 2003 and was promoted several times during his employment with the firm.
His positions included Head of Structured Trading, Head of European Derivatives Trading, and Head of European Equities Trading in early 2006.
He also founded and ran the Risk Hub: an internal proprietary Equity Multi-strategy trading desk managing up to $3bn.
In May 2007, he was promoted to co-head of the European Equities business before becoming sole head in 2008.
He started his career with Société Générale Paris in 1992 before moving to Credit Lyonnais Securities where he co-founded the Derivatives business.
Mr. Bouzouba holds an engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and a postgraduate degree in mathematical finance and economics from the French Statistics Institute (ENSAE).