Italian spin-off doctor
INTERVIEW: ALBERTO FONTANA
Alberto Fontana is managing director of Financial Tradeware, a small hedge fund-focused technology firm that was spun off from its parent company Dharma Holdings in 1999. Victor Anderson asks him about the reasons for the spin off, the importance of STP to the smaller industry participants and the need for specific, real-time risk management products.
You’re working with technology at present, although that’s not your background.
Yes, I work with technology at the moment, although I come from a
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