XAVIER JOUVE
2010 - present Retail Trader & Strategist (home based)
DOB 08/06/1978
A former psychologist, a peer-reviewed author in
psychometrics, an entrepreneur with years of field
experience in international business, a self-taught
phase change units engineer, a self-taught FX trader,
and a recent Ivy League postgraduate in executive
leadership who is undertaking an MSC in finance.
S EL E CT E D R EF ER E N C E
Flexible, able to learn quickly and to understand
with tremendous easiness a wide range of concepts
from the most quantitative to the most verbally-
oriented.
- Prof. Dr. Michel Herzog, Université Joseph Fourier
S EL E CT E D P UB L IC A TI ON
Jouve, X. (2005) Epreuve de Performance Cognitive
(EPC). Paris: Editions du Centre de Psychologie
Appliquée.
CONNECT WITH ME
+33 698 186 533
xjouve@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/xjouve
xavier.jouve
#xjouve
920 chemin des plâtrières, 13090 Aix
en Provence - FRANCE
RECENT WORK EXPERIENCES
Developing strategies
FX Portfolio trading
Programming robots
Co-Founder & CTO at My Brand Tech, Ltd.
2010 - 2012
(London, UK)
IT products choice & sourcing
Worked closely with Asia and USA
Co-Founder & Executive Manager at Jouve
2006 - 2013 Conseil et Développement, SARL (Aix-en-
Provence, FRA)
AMD CPU frequency world record holder
E-commerce
Foxconn Tech. Motherboard Scholar
Motherboard laboratory testing for DFI
Thermodynamic units engineering
RECENT RELEVANT EDUCATION
MSC in International Finance at LSBF
due 2014
(London, UK)
Scholarship recipient
Business & Financial Analysis, Corporate
Finance, Corporate Governance & Ethics,
Quantitative Finance & Financial Markets,
M&A & Private Equity, Money & FX Markets
MBA-level Cert. in Executive Leadership at
2013
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA)
Earned a 100%
Coaching Mindset & Process for Engaging &
Developing Others, Executive Decision
Making, Leading through Creativity,
Managing Strategic Change, Tactics & Skills
for Negotiating
SKILLS
Broad curiosity, Computer literate, Enjoy
challenges, Keen to learn, Networking
oriented, Positive attitude, Rational thinker,
T-shaped
INTERESTS
Cognitive abilities, Discovering, Finance,
Geopolitics, History, Overclocking, Painting,
Philosophy, Psychometrics, Reading,
Statistics, Thermodynamics, Writing
MEMBERSHIPS
Cerebrals Society, International Society for
Philosophical Enquiry, Prometheus Society,
Psychometrics Society, Triple Nine Society
Updated 19 May 2014
 INTRODUCTION
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

I am passionate about finance. I discovered this domain back in 2009 as a

personal challenge by developing strategies for trading the FX market. Since then I have
been building numerous algorithms, and some of them were or still are used today in
order to manage my own live portfolio. Nowadays, my portfolio is fully automated and
composed of more than 20 robots that trade various pairs, majors and crosses.
Although it is also used as a mock-up account for assessing strategies, it has grown up
by about 50% last year.

Always keen to acquire knowledge, I aimed at gaining formal education in the

Oddity
field, therefore I am currently working towards an MSC in International Finance (due by
Rigorous the end of 2014) with electives in Corporate Governance and Ethics, Money and FX
Markets, and M&A and Private Equity. I have been awarded the Dean’s scholarship for
Imaginative this postgraduate program, which is taught by the London School of Business and
Finance (LSBF). My assignments have all received strong feedbacks so far.
Gregarious
Moreover, in an effort to extend the range of study, I have earned with a 100%
Intergrade
in 2013, a Cornell University Certificate in Executive Leadership that consisted in MBA-
Noesis level courses.

Applicative I could confidently describe myself as a very polyvalent character. I am a former

psychologist and a member of the Psychometrics Society. In 2005, one of my tests in
Logical cognitive psychometrics (applied statistics) has been peer-reviewed prior to be
published by the French branch of Pearson Education. Furthermore, I used to be an
entrepreneur in the IT sector, a consultant for Asian firms such as Foxconn Technology,
and the co-founder of two companies, one in France and another one in the UK for
which I have assumed the role of CTO during three years.

In addition, I used to have had a constant benevolent activity in savant societies.

I am the founder (1999) and Co-President of the Cerebrals Society which gathers
individuals from all over the world, among whom Finance industry executives such as
for examples a former member of the NYSE management committee and a MD of a top
tier bank. This gave me an unique opportunity to build an international network.

As it seems important to me to maintain my network in the IT sector, I am still

regularly attending electronic shows such as the CES in Las Vegas, NV, but with the eyes
of the financier above those of the technician. I am really looking forward now to find a
pathway in the Finance industry, using as best as possible both my diverse experiences
and my recent formal education in Finance.

I thank you for your consideration and look forward to hearing from you at your
convenience.

Updated 19 May 2014