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William Reeves (finance)

American businessman and the co-founder of the hedge fund, BlueCrest Capital Management

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ21062757 ↗
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William Huntington Reeves (born 1963/64) is an American businessman and the co-founder of the hedge fund, BlueCrest Capital Management.

Early life

Reeves has a BA in English from Yale University, and an MA in Philosophy from New York University.

Career

Reeves is a former trader of JP Morgan and Chase Company. In 2000, he co-founded BlueCrest Capital Management with Michael Platt.

In 2009, he and Platt owned 75% of BlueCrest. In 2010, he was reported to have a net worth of £375 million.

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This entry incorporates text from “William Reeves (finance)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.