Ewan Kirk

In February 2020, GAM Systematic won Eurohedge's 'Managed Futures – Under $500m' award for 2019.

In 2020, Kirk donated £20,000 to the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge to launch the Kirk Global Challenge. The challenge is a competition to help students develop ideas to "help jumpstart economic growth in the developing world."

In 2020, the Turner-Kirk Charitable Trust donated £250,000 to the Cambridge Conservation Initiative to establish the Turner Fellowship Programme, which brings researchers and practitioners from academia, law, politics and NGOs to the University of Cambridge for a three-month research residency.

In 2019, the Turner-Kirk Charitable Trust donated £15,000 to Soton UAV, a research group at the University of Southampton studying how unmanned aircraft can be used to monitor and conserve rural locations in the developing world and mitigate the effects of climate change. Upon launch, Kirk said: "Climate change is undoubtedly the biggest issue facing us all and as we get to grips with tackling this issue, I fundamentally believe the development and deployment of technology – including UAVs – has a critical role in our global response."

Kirk is a member of the Liberal Democrats Business and Entrepreneurs Network, which is ‘a network of senior business people’ that ‘provides the party with expert advice on business and economic policy’. During the 2019 UK General Election, Kirk was one of 60 business leaders to sign an open letter endorsing the Liberal Democrats and donated £300,000 to the party.

In 2016, Cantab Capital Partners was acquired by GAM Investments, becoming part of GAM Systematic. At the time of acquisition, Cantab Capital Partners had 56 employees and £4.5bn under management.

In 2016, Kirk was part of the official campaign making the pro-science case for remaining in the European Union during the UK’s referendum on EU membership and donated £10,000 to Scientists for EU. During the same year, he donated £200,000 to Britain Stronger in Europe.

In 2015, through Cantab Capital Partners, Kirk and Turner provided a £5 million gift to the University of Cambridge to establish the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information.

In 2013, Kirk and Turner provided a £500,000 endowment to the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences to establish the Turner-Kirk Visiting Fellowship. In 2019, they provided an additional £250,000 to the Institute for Mathematical Sciences to establish a fellowship scheme specifically for women mathematicians.

In 2013, The Turner-Kirk Charitable Trust founded the Turner-Kirk Fellowship Programme at University of Oxford's Department of Zoology.

In 2007, Ewan Kirk and his wife Dr. Patricia Turner founded the Turner-Kirk Charitable Trust, which provides funds to STEM, education and conservation causes in the UK and developing world.

In 2006, he founded Cantab Capital Partners, a science-driven quantitative investment firm in Cambridge. . The firm says its work resembles a "scientific research organisation" more than a financial firm. Most of the members of the team hold advanced degrees in mathematics, physics, statistics or computer science. The company has links with the University of Cambridge.

In 1992, Kirk joined Goldman Sachs, initially working in commodities before moving to currencies. He was appointed a managing director in 1998, and became a Partner in 2000. As a partner, Kirk was responsible for heading up the bank's European quantitative technologies group, which tested systematic investment strategies. He oversaw a team of 120 mathematicians, scientists and statisticians.

Ewan Mckinnon Kirk (born February 1961) is a British technology entrepreneur, who is president of GAM Systematic Cantab, chair of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences and founder of Cantab Capital Partners, a quantitative investment management firm based in Cambridge.