Yung Lim
Chief Executive Officer
C0-CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER
30+ years of experience in the fixed income markets spanning investment management, risk management, quantitative model development.
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
James Viceconte
Chief Marketing Officer
C0-CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER
30+ years of experience in public and private equity and fixed income spanning virtually all capital markets functions.
Qualifications
- Principal at Versatile Capital Management, LLC, a Factor-based ETF asset manager
- Portfolio manager in private credit at AB Global, LP, formerly Alliance Bernstein
- Portfolio/risk manager at GMG Investment Advisors, LLC / Odisea Asset Management, LLC, both Latin-American focused asset management platforms
- Managing Director at Citigroup / Salomon Brothers Inc in asset-backed and mortgage-backed markets
- Vice President at JP Morgan Securities, Inc in mortgage-backed trading and sales
- MBA from Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago
- BS in Finance/Economics from Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University
George Lucaci
GLOBAL HEAD OF DISTRIBUTION
40+ years of experience with Trading, Investment Banking, Marketing, Sales, and Asset Management.
Experienced in Capital Raising, Alternative Investments, MBS, CMBS, Foreign Exchange (FX) Options, Asset Management, Fin Tech, Special Situations, Derivatives, and new business ventures.
Qualifications
- Speaker at Mercury Capital Advisors / 2017 BZ Global Fintech Awards
- Senior Vice Preseident in the derivatives Fixed Income group at Paine Webber/UBS, then Senior Managing Director of Channel Capital
- Head of Risk Management at Normandy Asset Management, one of the first funds to explore and develop AI capabilities. Worked closely with MIT AI Lab and the Laboratory for Financial Engineering
- National Fixed Income Product and Sales Manager for Nomura Securities
- Director of Merrill Lynch's Mortgage-Backed Securities business, one of the leading trading desks on Wall Street
- Head of Proprietary FX Futures Arbitrage Trading at Citibank
- Head and founder of Chemical Bank's FX Customer Trading Desk
- Partner and Senior Advisor for Mercury Capital Advisors, LLC
- M.B.A. from The George Washington University
- Bachelor of Arts, Duke University
Rob Harrington
Chief Technology Officer
25+ years of experience in building and managing advanced systems for trading and portfolio management as well as innovative software and data products.
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
Dean Smith
Chief Strategist
25+ years of experience in all aspect of structured products with roles as an investment banker, trader, and hedge fund portfolio manager.
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
Brad Hlista
VP of Engineering
27+ years of software development experience with specialization in enterprise applications, SaaS, distributed computing, machine learning and BigData.
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
Samir Varma
quantitative modeling consultant
25+ years of experience in quantitative trading strategies involving equities, commodities, currencies, and bonds.
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
Robert Carr
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR SOLUTIONS
28+ years of experience in equity trading/transition management sales for asset managers, insurance co’s, ETF investors, hedge funds, and quant/stat-arb clients.
Qualifications
- Director, Penserra Securities, an institutional financial services platform
- Managing Director, SunGard/Fox River Execution, an algorithmic trading technology and execution solutions provider
- Vice President, Portfolio Trading, Weeden & Co
- Vice President, Block and Portfolio Trading, Fidelity Capital Markets
- B.A. Economics from Clark University
- MBA Candidate at Babson College Olin Graduate School of Business
William Meaney
Insurance Investment Solutions
35+ years of insurance portfolio management with substantial background in portfolio optimization, asset/liability strategies and complex derivative/hedging programs.
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
Robert Snider
Institutional investor solutions
30+ years of experience with Complex financial products and services, interfacing with all types of financial institutions.
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
Wesley Huber
Director of Operations
5+ years of operational experience at both small and large financial firms.
Qualifications
- Associate Director of Operations at Treesdale Partners, LLC
- Compliance Analyst at JP Morgan Securities
- B.S. in Business Administration from Mercy College
Kristina Krusiy
DIGITAL DESIGN / OPERATIONS ANALYST
5+ years of experience providing technical and creative services to an array of clients.
Qualifications
- Web Design consultant in the fields of medical practices and entertainment
- B.S. in Psychology and Digital Media & Design with a concentration in Marketing Strategies for Business from the University of Connecticut
Jasmine Shu
QUANTITATIVE ANALYST
5+ years of experience in providing quantitative financial analysis, developing investment strategies and database maintenance
Qualifications
- M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University
- B.A. in Economics-Mathematics from Whitman College
- User Strategist Intern at Vincross Technology Co.
- Investment Analysis Intern at Shanghai Zenitek Group Co
- Intern at Credit Department of China Citic Bank, Zhejiang Branch
Chris Viceconte
Associate
5+ years of experience in regulatory and financial roles focused on consumer lending and impact investment.
Qualifications
- M.S. in Global Finance from Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University
- B.A. in Politics, Rights & Development from New York University
- NexGen Regen Research Fellow at Lupoff Impact Scholars Institute, a consultant to local investors, entrepreneurs and banking professionals to catalyze investment in local sustainable ventures
- Paralegal in the Asset Management Practice at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
- Research Associate at Severus Holdings, a specialty finance platform in revolving consumer credit and alternative small dollar credit products
Neeraj Parasher
Institutional Investor Solutions
20+ years in commodities trading and structured products, as well as energy, hedge fund and start-up investments, financing and operations.
Qualifications
- Chief Operating Officer at Treebrook Global Macro, a macro strategy which revolved around FX options
- Chief Operating Officer at Magister Ludi Global Macro, a traditional global macro strategy utilizing ETFs to dampen volatility risk
- Trading and marketing of physical commodities and structured products for Mobil Oil and PSEG Energy Resources and Trade
- MSC in Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science
- B.A. in International Relations from Lehigh University