Driven by intellectual curiosity and collaboration, our disciplined team of world-class investment, engineering, and business professionals is our edge.
Ron Ozer
Founder & CIO
Ron has extensive experience trading futures and commodities at two of the world’s premier buy side commodity market participants, Citadel and D. E. Shaw & Co.
Ron began his career at D. E. Shaw & Co. in 2008 in the equities/futures systematic trading business creating, improving, and executing for models. Only one year later, Ron was promoted to a portfolio manager role in the firm’s energy group, where his focus was on trading natural gas futures and options. In 2015, Ron was hired to Citadel as the head portfolio manager for US natural gas.
Ron graduated from MIT in 2008 after three years of study with a B.S. in Mathematics and a minor in Economics. He graduated with a GPA of 5.0/5.0, earning membership into the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society.
Terrence Brennan
COO
Terrence has over 24 years of experience working in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Statar Capital, Terrence was most recently the Chief Operating Officer at Trajectoire Capital, an asset management firm headquartered in Geneva, from June 2016 to June 2018.
Terrence had previously spent 18 years as the Chief Operating Officer for Cipher Investment Management, a Commodity Trading Advisor whose assets under management grew to over $500mm over his time there. Terrence worked at Cipher from its inception in June 1994 until the firm closed in June 2012. Terrence was responsible for all areas of day-to-day operations including risk management, performance reporting and compliance. In addition, Terrence directed the implementation of Cipher’s trading systems and helped oversee the portfolio which consisted of global commodity and financial futures, as well as interbank foreign exchange contracts.
Prior to joining Cipher, Terrence worked at the New York office of Metallgesellschaft Corporation, a metals conglomerate, from October 1991 to April 1994, performing back office operational duties for its Futures Trading Department.
Terrence graduated cum laude from Baruch College, earning a B.B.A. degree in Finance and Investments.