Core Team

Qualifications

• Co-founder of Treesdale Partners, LLC, Fixed Income Fund of Hedge Funds with peak AUM of $2.3 billion
• Chairman of Pedestal Inc., Online mortgage trading platform funded by Reuters, Deutsche Bank and Battery Ventures
• Senior consultant at Andrew Davidson & Co., Inc.
• Vice President at Merrill Lynch, Mortgage-Backed Securities Group
• Co-author of Collateralized Mortgage Obligations, by Davidson, Ho and Lim
• MBA from Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology

Qualifications

• Founder, Stonehenge Financial Partners
• Partner, Highland Financial Holdings
• Senior positions at DLJ and Nomura Securities
• M.A. and M.Phil in Economics from Columbia University
• B.A. in Economics from the University of California San Diego

Qualifications

• President of WI8 Consulting, provider of consulting services in software and data, and technical expert on patents in data analytics and finance
• Managing Partner of VS Asset Management
• Formed joint venture with Fox River Partners
• Director of New Business and Product Management for Qwest Communications International
• Founder and CEO of Instanton, a software company that invented and commercialized technology to enable high-performance distribution of digital assets
• Software patent in high-performance digital delivery
• Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Texas at Austin
• B.S. in Mechanical/Nuclear Engineering from the University of Oklahoma

Qualifications

• Partner and Senior Advisor for Mercury Capital Advisors, LLC specializing in hedge funds, and private equity capital raising, building the Mercury digital iFunds platform/brand, and direct/special situation investments
• One of lead capital raisers in the hedge fund industry. Partner at Hedgefund.net, which was the first hedge fund tech platform and database ultimately sold to NASDAQ
• Merrill Lynch National MBS Product and Sales Manager. Lead distributor of CMO’s and Structured Products
• Head of Risk Analysis at Normandy Asset Management, global macro hedge fund and a leader in the use of AI in analysis in collaboration with the MIT AI Laboratory
• Nomura Securities National Fixed Income Sales Manager. Led sixty-person team in distributing Treasury, Corporate, High Yield and Mortgage securities
• M.B.A. from The George Washington University
• Bachelor of Arts, Duke University

Qualifications

• Founder of VS Asset Management, which specializes in an array of automated equity strategies
• Joint venture in algorithmic proprietary trading platform (with Fox River Partners, Joe Ritchie’s investment group)
• Co-founder of Investpic, LLC, holding entity for a fundamental patent covering financial risk management
• Co-founder of Chaos Systems, LLC, a top-ranked a commodity trading advisor
• Owner of additional finance patents covering risk management and analysis of financial information
• Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics from the University of Texas at Austin
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University

Qualifications

• On team of four that built high throughput data pipeline to back test trading models
• Senior Principal Engineer at Dell for petabyte scale data archiving
• Data analysis and machine learning pipelines for DoD
• B.S in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin

Qualifications

• Established OmniCap, LLC in 2006, a boutique broker-dealer and placement firm
• Director of Salomon/Citigroup, Structured Assets Group
• VP of DLJ, Fixed Income Sales
• AVP of Bear Stearns
• A.B. in English from Muhlenberg College

Qualifications

• Executive Vice-President, Hartford Investment Management Company
• Regulatory consultant for state insurance departments
• Portfolio Analyst, CIGNA Investments
• Chartered Financial Analyst
• M.A. in Economics from Trinity College
• B.A. in Economics and Computer Science from Trinity College