Team

FOUNDER

Steve helps pioneering enterprises set up and operate AI and algorithmic solutions.  He has spent 27 years helping to build data and quant solutions, prominently at Two Sigma, AQR, and Interactive Brokers/Timber Hill.  

His experience has been primarily for algorithmic trading and quantitative finance where accuracy and reliability can be quite important. In addition to his experience helping find the initial AI and quant signals, he has also helped set up and run the complex daily operations of profitable algorithmic businesses.

Steve spent ten years leading the Referential Data team at Interactive Brokers where the highly automated system that consume the data consequentially set a very high bar for accuracy. He managed software development and an operational team. Many of his theories on how to achieve very high levels of automation originate here. A team of five did the job typically done by a hundred people at a similar firm.

Steve also helped build and guide a team responsible for data quality and operational support of quant research at AQR.

At Two Sigma he founded a team that developed an innovative data and analytics platform.

In addition, early in his career, Steve was CTO at Oven, a pioneering software and e-commerce consulting firm.

His current passion is helping his friends access the 10x and 100x talent that he has worked with throughout his career, talent which is both immensely valuable — and not typically otherwise available outside the rarified domains of. Silicon Valley and quant funds.

FOUNDER

Tamara has 20+ years helping organizations communicate clearly with the press, with social media and with internal and external audiences. While AI is game changing, it’s also can be an anxious subject - so clear communication can increase the impact and lower resistance.

Tamara has worked at the Austin Housing Authority, Columbia University Law School, and the New York State Council on the Arts along with other organizations.   Tamara is also the CEO of Applied Machine Learning, a startup dedicated to using ML to highlight clean humor on social media.

STRATEGY

Erena advises on regulatory change and compliance. She is an expert in areas where technology and regulatory interests intersect, drawing on her extensive legal training and experience working in banking and healthcare compliance, combined with her long history delivering software development projects at large companies.

Erena helps businesses weed through legislative corpus and then leads in devising workable roadmaps. Erena holds an LLB in English Law and an LLM in Banking and Financial Law from Boston University School of Law. She was extremely honored to be a law clerk for the Third Judicial District in New York State.