Who we are

The team

Every contributor has a named byline — name, degree, university — and owns a named piece of the market for a term at a time.

Leads

Founder & Project Lead
Sophia Zampolli
MEng Chemical Engineering · Imperial College London

Sector desks

Three analysts per desk, three to five companies per desk, one note every third week. Each desk page lists the companies it follows.

01Energy & Utilities
Analyst
Amelia
Analyst
Hamza
Analyst
Jaime
02Materials, Mining & Infrastructure
Analyst
Hector
Analyst
Arjun
03Chemicals
Analyst
Rudy
Analyst
Oliver
Analyst
Melis
04Industrials, Capital Goods & Transport
Analyst
Sophia Zampolli
MEng Chemical Engineering · Imperial College London
Analyst
Luca
05Technology & Semiconductors
Analyst
Youssef
Analyst
Tommy
Analyst
Awais
06Healthcare Services & Medical Equipment
Analyst
Kate
Analyst
Carlotta
Analyst
Lola
07Pharmaceuticals, Biotech & Life Sciences
Analyst
Marianne
Analyst
Sveva
Analyst
Maya
Imperial College London
08Financials & Banks
Analyst
Adrian
Analyst
Maya
London School of Economics
Analyst
Derin
09Aerospace & Defence
Analyst
Katja
Analyst
Noah
Analyst
Lorenz
Statistics and Data Analytics · Universität Wien
10Macro, Rates & FX
Analyst
Adrian
Analyst
Hannah
Analyst
Valeria
11Consumer, Retail & Luxury
Analyst
Natalia
Analyst
Felicitas
BSc Management · ESCP Business School
Analyst
Martina

Editors

The editors make every release publishable: structure, sourcing, spelling, plain English, and nothing that reads as advice. They also keep Decoded growing.

Editor
Hannah
Editor
Maggie

Quarterly Market Recap

Four times a year, twelve weeks of sector coverage become one long piece on what actually happened.

Quarterly Recap
Emil Mingaliev
Quarterly Recap
Nico
Quarterly Recap
Aarohi

Outreach & Legal

Outreach brings in the people who write it and the people who read it. Legal reviews every release for anything that could read as advice or an unsupported allegation.

Outreach Officer
Carlotta
Outreach Officer
Felicitas
BSc Management · ESCP Business School
Head of Legal Counsel & Limitation of Liability
Andrew

Open seats

Own a piece of the market.

Desks recruit at the start of each term. No prior finance experience required — the requirement is that you can read a company's own announcements and write a sentence you can defend.

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