Fernando Cavia Vicente

Fernando Cavia has spent his whole career in Equity Markets roles as a Derivatives specialist. Fernando has experience both in the “Buy Side” as a Portfolio Manager and in the “Sell Side” covering a wide range of financial institutions for two major investment banks. He is currently an Executive Director at JP Morgan and Head of the Iberia Equity Derivatives & Cross Asset Solutions Team. He rejoined JP Morgan in 2019 after a year in Fineco SGIIC as Head of Derivatives and Systematic Strategies and Portfolio Manager in the Spanish Asset Manager. Before his “buy side” experience, he had been working at JP Morgan since 2013 where he initially joined the Equity Derivatives team to be in charge of Iberia Flow and Financing Derivatives. Fernando started his career in 2008 as a summer intern in BNP Paribas in London, on the Strategic Equity Derivatives team covering Corporates. After graduating in 2009, he went back to BNP Paribas to join the Equity Derivatives Flow team, also in London, where he spent his whole career until moving to Bilbao in 2018 and later to Paris in 2021 due to Brexit. He has a BSc in Management and a Masters in Finance, both at ESADE in Barcelona. His teaching experience include Markets, Derivatives and Portfolio Management related subjects at Deusto Business School (Bilbao), ISBIF and IE. Other than Equity Markets, Fernando’s main hobbies are playing basketball and diving.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Executive Director, Head of Iberia Equity Derivatives and Cross Asset Solutions, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Paris (France), 2021

• Executive Director Head of Iberia Equity Derivatives, JP Morgan Chase Bank, London (UK), 2019 – 2021

• Head of Derivatives and Systematic Strategies & Portfolio Manager, Fineco, Bilbao (Spain), 2018 -2019

• Vicepresident, Head of Iberia Flow Derivatives, JP Morgan Chase Bank, London (UK), 2013 – 2018

• Analyst, Equity Derivatives Flow, BNP Paribas, London (UK), 2009 – 2013

• Intern, Strategic Equity team, BNP Paribas, London (UK), 2008 – 2009

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• IE (Madrid, Spain) Adjunct Professor, Equity Derivatives & Trading, 2021

• Deusto Business School (Bilbao, Spain), Professor Undergraduate/Masters, Portfolio Management and Financial Institutions & Markets, 2018 – 2019

• ISBIF (Madrid, Spain), Professor, Masters in Finance, Equity Derivatives, 2019 – 2022

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• 5-Year Combined BSc in Management and MSc in Finance, Esade Business School, Barcelona, 2004 – 2009