Roles and Responsibilities
As Managing Director and Head of Strategy at Mobius Risk Group, Mohit Arora leads the firm’s Strategy and Strategy Direct platforms. He and his team partner with clients to optimize derivative hedge portfolios, enhance portfolio value, and reduce risk through timely, data-driven decisions. Mohit oversees the Analytics, Research, and Execution teams, ensuring that complex insights are translated into clear, actionable strategies that accelerate decision-making and improve outcomes. With a quantitative background and more than two decades of trading experience in oil and gas options, Mohit delivers practical, high-impact solutions to today’s most complex market challenges.
Prior Experience
Before joining Mobius in 2018, Mohit held senior leadership roles across the energy trading landscape. At Koch Supply & Trading, he led the Proprietary Options Desk, managing crude and products option portfolios as well as tail risk for physical crude, products, NGL, fuel, and agricultural desks. Previously, as a Portfolio Manager at AAA Capital Management, he designed and executed multi-strategy oil options portfolios driven by both fundamental and quantitative analysis. Earlier in his career, Mohit served at Entergy Koch and later Merrill Lynch Commodities, where he built and traded natural gas option strategies, structured hedging solutions for corporate clients, and developed enhanced return/index products for hedge funds.
Professional Experience
- Koch Supply and Trading, Head of Proprietary Options Desk
- AAA Capital Management, Portfolio Manager
- Merrill Lynch Commodities, Lead structurer for Producers/Consumers/Refiners and Hedge Funds
- Entergy Koch Trading, Natural Gas Option Trader
- Koch Hydrocarbons, Quantitative Analyst and NGL trader
Education
- Btech, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
- MS Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
- Dual PhD (Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor