Olivier Bossard is head of equity volatility trading at Lehman Brothers in London. He started his career at Société Générale in the early 1990s as an exotic interest rate options trader after his studies at Ecole Centrale in Paris and a masters in applied mathematics at the National University of Yokohama in Japan.

In 1995 he moved to London with SocGen, before joining Lehman Brothers in 1998 to help set up an exotic equity derivatives business.