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Jakob is the global CEO of GSR. Prior to joining GSR, he was Head of EMEA business at Two Sigma Investments and a board director of Two Sigma International. He has over a decade of experience developing business and investment solutions in systematic investment management, including roles at Winton Capital Management and Barclays Global Investors (BGI). Jakob holds a BSc in Economics from Lund University and has completed the MSc coursework in Economics (without dissertation). He also has a Ships Officers Degree, Class VIII from Chalmers University of Technology.
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Jake Dwyer
Jake Dwyer is the founder of Factor Capital and previously worked at GSR and Two Sigma Ventures. He holds a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.
Nim Siriwardana
Nim Siriwardana is the Co-Founder & CTO at Metacask and former CTO of GSR and is responsible for trading platform development and integration. Nim has over 16 years of experience building software solutions and trading platforms in the financial services sector, including at Goldman Sachs in London and Source Capital AG in Zug. Nim has a master of engineering degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southampton.
Robert Edstrom
Robert Edström is the Chief Engineer at Kaiko, Crypto-finance Market Data Engineer and Buzzword Bingo Champion. Building a foundation for market data in the crypto asset space. We are hiring passionate engineers with a taste for scaling distributed systems and architecture and implementation of big data pipelines.
Richard Rosenblum
Rich is a Co-Founder and President 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.
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).
John MacDonald
John is the Chief Technology Officer of GSR. Prior to joining GSR, he spent five and a half years at Citadel Securities, where he held various technology leadership roles, such as Global Head of Derivatives Technology and Global Head of Fixed Income Technology. Before that, he spent 10 years at J.P. Morgan, where he was a Managing Director, running the Global Electronic Market Making Technology group. He started his career at Goldman Sachs, before joining Citadel to build an Options trading business. John graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Mathematics & Computation.
Eva Sanchez
Eva is the Chief Legal Officer of GSR and oversees the firm's legal, compliance, and regulatory policy affairs. Prior to joining GSR, she was at AQR Capital Management, leading the firm's international legal and compliance teams. At Citadel, she oversaw the growth of Citadel's hedge fund and securities business in Europe during a period of significant market structure and regulatory change. Eva began her legal career at Clifford Chance and earned a First Class Business & Law Degree from City University, London.
Jonathan Loflin
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.
Xin Song
Xin is the COO at GSR. He has been in crypto since 2018, and before that was in traditional finance for over 10 years, initially as an Portfolio Manager in the Scientific Active Equities team at BlackRock in London, developing quantitative investment strategies for a $5bn European long-only fund. Xin relocated to Shanghai to become the Head of Product for Fintech startup DealGlobe, subsequently setting up his own crypto derivatives hedge fund Magpie Capital as Co-Founder and CEO, before joining GSR in 2019 to build out the Asia franchise. Xin graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc in Business Mathematics and Statistics, and London Business School with an MBA, specializing in Entrepreneurial Management. He is also a CFA charterholder.
Dmitry Zhelezov
Dmitry Zhelezov is Co-founder at Subsquid. Formerly, Hydra Core Developer at Jsgenesis. Formerly, Chief Scientist at Helix Cognitive Computing. Like to dig deeper. PhD math and >8 years dev experience combo.