Twitter: @infoarbitrage
Website: IA Venture Strategies
I am currently Managing Partner of IA Venture Strategies, an early-stage venture firm focused on managing and extracting value from "big data." I am also founder of Kinetic Trading Strategies,
LLC, a quantitative trading firm that develops proprietary,
alpha-generating language models for top proprietary trading firms and
quantitative hedge funds. My angel investments are held through IA Capital Partners, LLC (IA
Capital), an early-stage investment firm focused on digital media and
financial technology. I have made 35 investments since 2004
including TheLadders.com, Buddy Media, Clickable, Domdex, Invite Media,
MyTrade (sold to thinkorswim, now TD Ameritrade), Stocktwits, TweetDeck
and Wallstrip (sold to CBS Interactive).
I currently serve on the boards of Alphacet; Buddy Media;
Domdex; Global Bay Mobile Technologies; Selerity Financial; and
Stocktwits.
Prior to going into venture capital, I served as President and CEO of
DB Advisors, LLC, Deutsche Bank’s internal hedge fund trading platform. My 130-person team managed $6 billion in capital across multiple
strategies with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Before this I was Global Co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Strategic Equity
Transactions Group. In 2000, my team won Institutional Investor
magazine’s “Derivatives Deal of the Year” award. As an Investment
Banker and Managing Director at Citibank, I held a variety of roles
in the Global Derivatives, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions
and Capital Structuring groups.
I hold an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Management from Columbia Business School and a BBA in Finance, Economics and Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.
I am self-professed data junkie. My career has been immersed in data, whether on Wall Street or during my time as an angel investor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. I have long sought to get an information edge - more valuable, more timely or more complete data - which was the inspiration behind building my online identity, Information Arbitrage. The evolution from angel investor and entrepreneur to venture capitalist has gone more smoothly and been more exciting than I could have ever imagined. Truly, the best is yet to come.
I am also interested in the Michigan Wolverines. Progressive education. Taking a holistic approach to health care, and child care specifically. I am also passionate about Greenwich Village Little League, where both my wife and I have been coaches for many years and spent countless hours on downtown Manhattan's "Field of Dreams," JJ Walker Field. All good.
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