Ryan Darnell

Founding Principal

Ryan Darnell is the Founder and Portfolio Manager of Senecal Capital. He has fourteen years of experience in trading, private equity and risk management. He ran a derivatives trading desk at Deutsche Bank, co-managed a private equity and asset hedging portfolio at TrailStone Group, and served on the management team of StoneX Commodity Solutions providing structured lending and working capital in the commodity supply chain. He holds an AB with High Honors in Economics from Harvard.

Ryan has a track record of successful principal trading in:

  • Physical & financial commodities

  • Vanilla & exotic options including variance swaps, correlation options and structured products

  • Equities, equity indices, and equity options

  • Hard assets including refineries, rail cars, and oil tanks

  • Asset-backed loans & repo financing