Lucien Allen

Executive Strategy and Systems Leadership for Trading Firms

Lucien Allen provides embedded leadership and strategic execution across proprietary trading, market structure, and financial systems—supporting organizations where judgment, discretion, and accountability matter.

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Qualifier

Engagements are selective, long-duration, and typically embedded alongside senior leadership.

Execution Frameworks

Trading strategy and execution

Design and hardening of systematic strategy and execution frameworks built for real risk.

Market Structure

Venue economics and optimization

Deep analysis of market structure and venue economics to optimize for edge and latency.

Architecture

Financial systems and resilience

Technical systems architecture and operational resilience for institutional-grade trading.

Governance

Risk and performance governance

Capital allocation, risk posture, and performance governance frameworks.

In situ, alongside leadership

This work is performed directly inside organizations, embedded with trading, engineering, and executive teams. We align incentives, accountability, and durable capability.

Execution governance

Deterministic routing, risk gates, and reconciliation protocols installed as default state.

Operational debt remediation

Hidden work, scope drift, and pricing slippage surfaced and contained with a governance layer.

Confidential mandates

Selective, senior-led engagements with ring-fenced delivery and no public references.

Engage

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Discreet intake for qualified principals and institutional leads.