Laurent Van Hassel shared on LinkedIn that he’s starting a new position as Head of Trading at Dragonarch Partners LP, based in New York.

Van Hassel brings more than 15 years of trading experience spanning global equities, futures, commodities, options, ETFs and foreign exchange.

Most recently, he served as Senior Trader at BHS Advisors, part of Brookfield Asset Management, where he was responsible for portfolio coverage and execution across several investment strategies, including generalist, alpha capture, short-alpha, technology, media and telecommunications, and healthcare.

During his time at Brookfield, Van Hassel also worked on expanding trading capabilities into Europe and Asia-Pacific, developing routing wheels and automated routing capabilities, and designing algorithms aimed at improving liquidity sourcing and reducing market impact. His responsibilities also included portfolio hedging, risk monitoring and onboarding portfolio managers.

Prior to Brookfield, Van Hassel spent more than eight years as an International Trader at Spark Investment Management. There, he traded across global equities and derivatives and helped build the firm’s European trading capabilities, including establishing broker relationships and trading infrastructure. His work also covered securities lending, transaction-cost analysis, algorithmic execution and market structure.

Earlier in his career, Van Hassel was an Emerging Markets Trader at Mirae Asset Global Investments, executing cash equities and derivatives across emerging markets and working on best execution, transaction-cost analysis and trading technology.

He previously worked as a trader at Exis Capital Management, executing equities, futures and commodities and supporting portfolio managers with market and position analysis.

Dragonarch Partners is a New York-based investment firm with a relatively limited public profile. Publicly available information does not currently disclose the firm’s assets under management.