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Jonathan Loflin is the Chief Risk Officer at GSR. Before GSR, he was a Senior Portfolio Manager managing all aspects of the global derivatives relative value business at Mariner Investment Group (Coria Capital). Prior to that, he was Partner & Senior Portfolio Manager at BlueMountain Capital Management, running similar strategies. He started his career as a derivatives quant at Goldman Sachs, focusing on interest rate products and counterparty credit risk management. Mr. Loflin studied Artificial Intelligence & Finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning two Bachelor's degrees and a Master's degree at the same time. He also completed the MIT Sloan Executive Program in Management & Leadership.
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Cristian Gil
Cris is the Chairman of GSR. Prior to GSR, he worked as a commodities trader for nine years at Goldman Sachs in New York. Since then, he has managed an active portfolio of investments across the technology, real estate, hospitality, and media sectors. Cris obtained a degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Phil Davis
Phil Davis is the former CFO at ConsenSys, oversee ConsenSys’ finance and accounting functions, including expanding the company’s pioneering treasury strategy. Davis joins ConsenSys from Afiniti, where he was the company’s CFO. He brings a variety of other experiences from earlier in his career, including investment banking at Goldman Sachs, strategy and corporate finance consulting at McKinsey, and advanced data science and algorithm design experience at the MIT Media Lab and MIT Lincoln Lab.
Paul Chou
Paul L. Chou is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder at LedgerX, a CFTC-registered Swap Execution Facility (SEF) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) specializing in the custody and trading of cryptocurrency derivatives. Prior to assuming his current position, Paul co-founded and ran Opez, a software venture which was funded in 2011 by the prestigious Y Combinator program, a startup accelerator fund which has sponsored Dropbox, Reddit and Airbnb. Prior to Opez, Paul was a trader on the Quantitative Cash Trading desk within the Securities Division of Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for the development, trading and risk management of algorithmic equity trading strategies for U.S. and Japanese markets. Earlier in his career, Paul founded MX9, a software and technology consulting firm that delivered projects for companies such as Merck & Co. Paul earned a B.S. in Computer Science, and simultaneously, a B.S. in Mathematics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he worked in the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, where he developed models of market participant behavior and devised a new valuation method to capture the implied optionality of businesses.
Justin Schmidt
Justin Schmidt is President and COO at Ondo Finance and formerly Head of Strategy at Talos. Formerly, Head of Digital Asset Markets, VP at Goldman Sachs. Digital assets, blockchain, payments, tokens / tokenization, digital currencies / stablecoins, digital securities / security tokens, crypto, Bitcoin, Ethereum. Quantitative portfolio management, statistical arbitrage trading, strategy research and development, risk management, simulation/back-testing, optimization, algorithms, machine learning / artificial intelligence, data science, automation, scripting
Gordon Wintrob
Co-founder at Newfront. Previously sold StackLead (Attendee of Y Combinator Winter 2014) to LinkedIn.
Richard Rosenblum
Rich Rosenblum is the former Co-Founder and Co-CEO of GSR, leading the group in strategic initiatives and growth. He began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he spent 11 years between New York and London in commodities trading as a Managing Director and Global Head of Crude Oil and Derivatives Trading. Before joining GSR, he worked on the buy-side, managing energy trading teams at two New York-based hedge funds. Rich holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Columbia University.
Allison Lu
Allison Lu is Co-founder of UMA Protocol, a decentralized financial contracts platform. Previously, she was Vice President of Credit and Risk at Tala, a Trader at Goldman Sachs, and an Economist/Financial Analyst at MIT.
Jon Loflin
Jon Loflin is the Head of Alpha Strategies & Managing Director at GSR.
Jeremy Obadia
Jeremy is responsible for leading the structured products offering of Ribbon Finance. Prior to Ribbon Finance, he worked on an exotic derivatives structuring desk at Goldman Sachs in London. Jeremy has a BSc in Management Science and Engineering Mathematics from University College London and a Master of Financial Engineering from MIT.
Arun Devabhaktuni
Arun Devabhaktuni is a professional with a background in systems biology, physics, and biology. He is currently a Lead Researcher at Mirana Ventures and an Angel Investor at Valhalla Capital. He has also served as the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of ZenMaid Software. Arun has received a PhD in Systems Biology from Stanford University School of Medicine and a BS in Physics and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.