The shortest path to a difficult destination
An LBS MBA specialising in quantitative finance, an Oxford master's in computer science, a master's in financial engineering, and a career spent doing the work. I take a small number of clients each year.
Three kinds of work: getting into quantitative finance, getting into an M7 or LBS MBA programme, and getting into Oxford or Cambridge to read a STEM subject. I teach the technical preparation myself. Most consultancies subcontract that part to someone you never meet.
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Free practice
809 questions with worked solutions for quant interviews, the GMAT, the GRE and Oxbridge maths admissions, with timed tests at real exam pace.
An hour on where you stand · £250
The assessment
Send your CV, transcript and targets, and I will have read them before we speak. In the hour you get an honest read of where you actually stand, your realistic chances at each target, and the deadlines that apply to you. Credited in full against any programme booked within a month.
Start the assessment — £250 Free 20 minutes first What the hour covers →
Admissions consulting and quant careers advisory
- MBA — London Business School, specialising in quantitative finance. MBA and EMBA admissions interviewer for the school.
- MSc Computer Science — University of Oxford
- MSc Financial Engineering
- High-frequency trading quant — full time; previously quantitative developer and quantitative researcher
- GMAT 99th percentile — achieved twice
- GRE 99th percentile — verbal and quantitative
- 15+ years teaching
- Published research — algebraic topology, category theory, stochastic calculus and theoretical computer science; order book modelling and high-frequency trading
I sit on the other side of the table. I interview MBA and Executive MBA applicants for London Business School and run alumni interviews, which means the advice I give on how a candidate comes across is not inference. It is what I watch happen, every cycle, in the room where it is decided.
Most candidates buy this in pieces: an admissions consultant for the application, a tutor for the mathematics, a coach for the interview. Here it is one person, who does all three. Why work with me, and how it compares →
Three kinds of work: quant careers, MBA admissions, Oxbridge STEM
Everything is sold as a programme with a defined scope. The fee is agreed on the first call, once I know what you need.
Quantitative finance careers
Interview preparation for research, trading and development roles. MFE and MFin admissions.
By programme Quant interview preparation → BMBA admissions
M7, London Business School and INSEAD, for applicants out of finance and engineering.
By programme MBA admissions consulting → COxbridge & US STEM
MAT, STEP and TMUA taught personally, plus interview training.
By programme MAT, STEP & Oxbridge interviews →Method
- Conversation Twenty minutes, no charge, booked online. Bring your CV. I turn down a meaningful share of these, usually because the timeline is unrealistic or because cheaper help would do the job.
- Diagnosis An assessment before any teaching begins. For quant candidates that means a technical assessment. For admissions, a read of your existing material.
- The work Sessions with me. No associates and no subcontracted tutors. You get written feedback between sessions.
- Outcome Through to the offer or the admission. I stay reachable afterwards, since most of my future work comes from people I have already worked with.
Where clients are
Everything is remote and always has been. Working on Central European Time, mornings suit Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo. Afternoons suit the Gulf and Europe. Evenings suit the United States.
Where clients are headed
The universities and firms these programmes are built around. Admissions tests, essays and interviews differ enough between them that the preparation is not interchangeable.
Universities
Business schools
Firms clients target
From the blog
Longer and more technical than is fashionable, because the useful part is usually in the detail. Subscribe and you get one problem a week with a full worked solution.
What a quant interview is actually testing
The mathematics is the entry ticket. What decides the outcome is the ninety seconds after you realise you have no answer.
Read the quant interview piece → CReading a MAT question the way an examiner does
Why students with perfect school marks score in the forties on MAT mocks, and why their training works against them.
Read the Oxford admissions piece → BHow to score in the 99th percentile on the GMAT
725 is the top 1% on the GMAT Focus Edition. The method, from someone who has scored there twice.
Read the GMAT piece → BWhy I chose London Business School
Why a quant chose LBS, what it costs, and what I look for as an LBS interviewer.
Read the LBS piece →Enquire
Book a twenty-minute call and tell me what you are trying to do. If you would rather write, the enquiry form reaches me directly and I reply personally within two working days.