ADAM E. CAMPBELL
SUMMARY
Accomplished trading visionary with strong technical versatility. Extremely motivated entrepreneur
who is truly passionate about deciphering market liquidity. Experienced trader with exceptional
technical analysis skills. Hands-on developer of well designed, engineered, and highly systematic
quantitative approaches: delivering '- 18% annualized gross returns in each of last 3 years.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TRUE NORTH PARTNERS, LLC: The Stable Fund — Suffern, NY 2011-2012
Commodities Trader, Trading Systems Researcher & Development
True North Partners, LLC is a registered CTA/CPO offering the Stable Fund. Characterized by
very stringent risk controls, the Fund has grown to > $125m in AUM. Primary responsibilities
included active daily trading of commodities markets, particular focus upon index futures; crude
oil, and Euro. Carried direct responsibilities of trading system design & implementation, working
closely with co-founding Partner on team responsible for STS roll-out.
• Worked extensively within STS division (Systems Trading Strategies) offering systematic
trading expertise, alga refinements, and continued research & development.
• Active daily trading responsibilities of highly liquid (intraday) strategies for $150M in
notional value.
• Contributed to development, and active deployment of multiple fully automated trading
systems; deployed upon additional live capital >$10M.
• Continued to maintain daily profitability ratio > 85%, with a Sharpe ratio >3.0.
• Actively shared trading expertise, price behavior insights, and engaged in thorough
analysis of systematic trading algorithms' design; and subsequent evaluation of their
performance metrics — within a collaborative, team-based environment.
INTEGRAL FINANCIAL GROUP, LLC: MAGNUM FUND— Richmond, VA 2007-2011
Managing Director, Head of Trading. Principle Co-Founder
Established a registered investment advisory business unit to complement existing specialized
financial services of Integral Financial Group. Primary responsibilities include the launch,
operation, all trading responsibilities, and growth of a quantitative-based hedge fund- The
Magnum Fund, LLLP. Built upon all past experiences to-date, including the trajectory of Canal
Street Capital & harvesting a deep archive of proprietary intellectual property.
• Magnum Fund initially soft-launched with principals' funds only. Fund management
completed a focused period of methodology refinement.
• Magnum Fund initiated our multi-algo core strategy on behalf of external investor in Jan,
2010. Fund launched with $1M AUM & approximately one dozen outside investors.
• The Fund experienced >200% growth in AUM, and investor base. Magnum achieved
mid-seven figure AUM. .
• Led the Fund into negotiations which sought additional commitments, $25M+ tickets from
industry allocators.
• Magnum Fund produced a Sharpe ratio of: 4.54.
• The Magnum Fund produced a number of compelling statistical performance metrics for
our investor base; markedly demonstrating a pattern of consistency in returns.
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o Fund produced a daily profitability ratio > 90% since inception.
o Fund experienced a recent run of 104 of 106 days profitable; batting .981
o Fund consistently outperformed the S&P index; notably in a non-correlative
month over month production stream. .
• Led the Fund into production of audited track record of 82% winning months; including
through the most recent S&P 'bear market conditions (10/2011).
• Magnum achieved an equivalent metric to "a perfect quarter" by delivering our investors
an unbroken 66-consecutive-day profitability run.
CANAL STREET CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC— Richmond, VA 2005 - 2007
Founder and Managing Director; Head of Trading
Built and managed a registered 3(c)1 hedge fund from the ground up. Formed Canal Street
Capital, LLLP as a quantitative-based, high frequency approach, utilizing software driven
systematic trading algos & fully computer-driven order executions. Employed a high capacity
strategy of multiple algorithmic trading systems, operating simultaneously.
• Launched Canal Street by marrying superior technology with sound trading practices.
The result was a core method capable of superior risk-return metrics on capacities of
over $500M. As core methods were applied to multiple markets (liquid commodities; FX,
fixed income) upside capacity blueprinted to >$2B.
• Successfully formulated and engineered dozens of proprietary statistical arbitrage trading
strategies. Employed multiple algorithmic trading systems simultaneously in our Fund to
achieve extremely smooth equity curves.
• Highly proficient in development, testing, and evaluation of multi-strategy, high frequency
trading strategies. .
• Canal Street achieved a backtest of 70 consecutive months within its multi-strategy
approach without a drawdown. Shame Ratio approached 3.20; annualized returns in low-
mid double digits.
• Consummated an equity partnership with MMI. Inc., a leading firm in applying chaos
theory to price behavior analysis. Significant model symbiosis as result of combining this
leading edge, proprietary price analysis to CSC existing core models.
• Orchestrated team of superior software engineers to enable a hands-on approach to non-
linear constrained optimization methods to solve high dimensional problems. The
resulting models demonstrate strong capabilities regardless of market cycle.
• Maintained key man status re: trading, marketing, sales, collateral development, print
material, and ongoing investor communications activities. Registered Investment
Advisory.
CAMPBELL EQUITY ADVISORS, LLC— Richmond, VA 2004 — present
Founder and President Originally built and managed CEA, LLC as the predecessor to Canal
Street Capital. Canal Street Capital was formed thru JV between CEA, LLC and AlterThought. a
boutique team of industry veteran software engineers. .
• Completion of initial algorithmic trading systems; pair programming with industry
veterans. Initial model has retained a profit factor of 1.70 since inception.
• Extensive accomplishments in research & development of mathematical models in
support of volatility; statistical arbitrage; and high frequency trading strategies.
• Conceived and architected > 20 core trading strategies highly capable of pattern
recognition across equity & commodity markets.
• Invested approximately 4,000 hours of real-time study of technical analysis. Developed
numerous, valuable proprietary TA tools based upon empirical analysis.
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HEADLEY, CAMPBELL & ASSOCIATES— Richmond, VA 1995 - 1998
Managing Director: Head of Equity Trading
• Successful completion of mentorship by 25 year industry veteran S&P trader.
• Established a strong early baseline of work to examine the origins of price behavior.
Committed approximately 8,000 hours to real-time study of technical analysis.
• Experienced equity & futures markets trader; trading for own account on ongoing basis.
• Established, built, and networked a full trading floor from the ground up; incorporating
numerous, redundant real-time market data feeds, and supporting up to 20 traders.
SOFTWARE & TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND
SAP AMERICA —Washington, DC & Newtown Square, PA 2003-2004
Director of Software Consulting Engagements — Directed professional software development
teams for a market leader in business software applications. Actively engage & consult with
C-level executives within Fortune 500 companies to accomplish business process redesign,
streamline processes, and harness SAP business software applications suite to drive revenue.
ORACLE CORPORATION— Richmond. VA 2001-2002
National Account Executive — Led new business engagements of Oracle applications suite and
relational database technology. Steer large, cross functional software teams to develop and
present ROI business case justification for multi-million dollar enterprise software applications: led
value recognition from harvesting of database technology; execute and close complex contracts
with multiple C-level decision-makers.
AMC TECHNOLOGY, INC. —Richmond, VA 1998-2001
Director of Technology Engagements — Effectively built and led a technology design team for
start-up software provider. Directed new technology engagements for custom coded, high end
SAP software components, leading to AMC's inclusion on "Inc.500-Fastest Growing" list.
EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS
MBA: Finance & Information Technology, Jacksonville University
BA: Economics, The College of William and Mary
Masters Certificate Program —Accounting, CPA Candidate The University of Virginia/Falls
Church Campus
Registered Investment Advisor — Series 65. Series 3 (Commodities & Futures), and Series 30
(Branch Manager Futures) licensed.
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