Our team brings together two veteran technologists who are both proven 10x developers as well as leaders who can scale engineering organizations. We have exceptionally broad and deep experience building advanced trading systems in both traditional finance and digital assets. The Psi Labs team have developed the platforms used by multi-billion $AUM funds, ultra-low-latency prime brokers and other Tier 1 financial institutions.
Veteran capital markets technologist and entrepreneur with an exceptional record of innovating financial technology and building trading and risk systems for Tier 1 financial institutions. Specialist in low-latency and ultra-low-latency trading, risk management and digital assets trading and settlement.
Built and ran a multi-million $ARR low-latency equities and derivatives trading software product business in APAC with multiple global FI customers including Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank.
Previously led trading and settlement engineering at Paxos as Director of Engineering, was Managing Partner at Fusion Systems in HK and led R&D Special Projects at Bloomberg in NY.
Holds a BSc in Computer Science and Accounting from the University of Manchester, UK.
Was most recently a founding partner and CTO for multi-strategy fund BFAM since inception in 2012, reaching $5B AUM in 2020.
At BFAM he built the entire multi-asset trading platform with a 2 person team, growing from 0 to $3B AUM, after which he scaled the engineering organization in line with the business.
Prior to BFAM, held key technology leadership roles in Japan at Nomura, Lehman Brothers, and Dresdner Bank - building EMS/OMS and PMS/Risk platforms from the ground up for all 3 organizations.
Holds a BSc, MSc in Computer Science from Technical University in Cluj-Romania, a PhD in cybernetics and Statistics from Bolyai-Babes University in Cluj-Romania, as well as an MBA(Finance) from HKUST in Hong Kong.