Maneesh Deshpande

Maneesh S. Deshpande joined Barclays Capital in September 2008 and is currently a Managing Director and head of U.S. Equity Derivatives Strategy Research. Maneesh was part of the team which has been ranked No. 1 in Institutional Investor’s annual survey from 2007-2010 in the Equity Derivatives/Equity Linked category. Prior to Barclays Capital, Maneesh held a similar role at Lehman Brothers since 2007. He joined Lehman Brothers from Goldman Sachs, where he established and ran its Systematic Portfolio trading desk. Prior to that, Maneesh was the head of the Principal Trading desk at Morgan Stanley Japan and was the head of the U.S. Interest Rate Options Trading desk at BNP.  Maneesh earned a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics.