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Anton Katz is the CEO of Talos, responsible for leading the firm's overall operations and driving its strategic initiatives. Prior to co-founding Talos, he served as Head of Trading Technology for AQR Capital Management, a prominent quantitative investment firm. Before that, he spent six years at Broadway Technology, most recently as Director of Software, leading trading technology development projects for various banks, asset managers, and vendors. His technology career began at Microsoft. Mr. Katz is a veteran of the Israel Defence Forces and a former member of the Israeli National Shooting Team. He holds a degree in Computer Science from MIT.
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Ethan Feldman
Ethan Feldman is the CTO of Talos. He is responsible for leading the firm's global technology organization. Before co-founding Talos, Mr. Feldman spent 10 years at Broadway Technology working with Talos co-founder Anton Katz. During his time at Broadway, he developed technology for many leading banks, asset managers, and vendors. His technology career started at Microsoft. Mr. Feldman holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Marek Olszewski
Marek Olszewski is a co-founder and CTO at Celo and the President at Valora. Earlier, he co-founded Locu, a machine learning venture-backed company that was acquired by GoDaddy. He is also an MIT PhD alumni and a former Facebook Fellow and has previously worked at Google, Microsoft Research and Sun Labs.
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
Abishkar Chhetri
Abishkar Chhetri is the co-founder of Alpen Labs and previously worked at Microsoft. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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.
Abhinav Vora
Abhinav Vora is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperline. He was previously the head of engineering at Lyft Pink and a software engineer at Meta and Microsoft. He graduated from RMIT University.
Sahil Thaker
Sahil Thaker is the co-founder of Hyperline and previously worked at Microsoft, Uber, and Meta. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oakland.
Dan Elitzer
Dan Elitzer is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Dan co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto-focused venture firm associated with the renowned design agency, IDEO. During that time, he also helped launch YAM Finance. Dan began his career in social enterprise and microfinance, working with both domestic social impact organizations and international development agencies. Dan earned an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club and MIT FinTech Club, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pomona College.
Krish Chelikavada
Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.
Theo Diamandis
Theo is pursuing an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD at MIT, where he works on algorithms for and applications of mathematical optimization. These interests inevitably led to him being nerd sniped by Guillermo into working on crypto. When he’s not working on optimization solvers for DeFi-related applications, Theo can be found backpacking or skiing in the California Sierras.