DISCUSSION: Scott Walker, Attorney-Adviser Office Compliance Inspections & Examinations U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission; Carla Carriveau, former Senior Counsel SEC; Ryan Selkis, CoFounder/CEO Messari; Adam Ettinger, Partner Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP; MODERATOR: Shane Glynn, FinTech Silicon Valley
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Seth Spalding, Sector Portfolio Manager Passport Capital #cryptohedgefunds
Seth Spalding, Sector Portfolio Manager Passport Capital Mr. Spalding is a Sector Portfolio Manager in the technology sector at Passport Capital. Mr. Spalding joined the firm in 2003 from Goldman Sachs where he was a Vice President. Previously he was a Director of Research at Epoch Partners. Earlier he worked as a Research Analyst at C.E. Unterberg Towbin and the Gartner Group. Mr. Spalding graduated from Stanford University where he earned an A.B. in Human Biology.
Michael Feng, CEO CoinAlpha #cryptohedgefunds
Michael Feng, CEO CoinAlpha, a platform that makes digital currency investing less volatile, secure and accessible to all, using artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. Prior to CoinAlpha, Michael was co-founder and CEO of doxIQ, a venture-backed startup that utilized computer vision to extract structured data from PDFs. In 2015, doxIQ was acquired by Nitro, a leading PDF software company. After the acquisition, he led product management at Nitro. Previously, Michael was an investment banker at JPMorgan and Citigroup. Michael has a MS in Management Science from Stanford University and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Martin Froehler, CEO Quantiacs #cryptohedgefunds
Martin Froehler, CEO Quantiacs Starting with US stocks in high school, continuing through his mathematics education in Europe, and culminating as head of a private quantitative research firm in Zurich, Martin has over 20 years experience with the markets. As a manager and teacher of new Quants, Martin realized that anybody could become a great Quant and has set out to make that possible.