Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel), a digital assets hedge fund manager, founded by senior traders and investment professionals from major wall street banks, has announced the hire of Henry Howell, a Goldman alumnus with eighteen years of experience in hedge fund, derivatives, and electronic futures sales. He is is joining Nickel as head of Business Development.

Prior to joining Nickel, Mr Howell was with Eisler Capital, a London-based macro hedge fund. Before that, he spent sixteen years with Goldman Sachs in Chicago and London. As a managing director in the Prime Services business unit in London, Henry was the head of listed and OTC derivatives sales and the global head of electronic futures.

Launched in early 2019, Nickel Digital offers institutional-grade access to digital assets market and currently runs four crypto funds catering for various degree of investors’ risk tolerance, from market-neutral arbitrage to multi manager and liquid venture strategies.

Nickel has seen its assets under management increase over 300 percet in the past 12 months, with AUM now approaching the $200 million mark. Its flagship Digital Assets Arbitrage Fund delivered 24 months of all-positive performance since inception, with solid double digits returns YTD and Sharpe ratio of 4.8.

Anatoly Crachilov, co-Founder and CEO of Nickel Digital, said in a statement: “We are absolutely delighted to welcome Henry to our actively growing team. From three founding partners 2 years ago, Nickel has now expanded into a team of 25 and I am specifically pleased to see a growing number of Wall Street professionals embracing the digital assets space, and another Goldman alumnus reinforcing Team Nickel. Henry brings an impressive 16 years of experience in top positions at Goldman, which will be invaluable to our ambitious roll out of investment offerings across the world.”