Thomas Redmond
Chief Executive Officer
Responsible for bringing VeridianML’s products and services to market, strategy and execution, and building a winning team.
Thomas is a former investment banker, venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur who founded his first venture in 1996 and since then has held various founding and senior executive roles in numerous early-stage businesses. He is also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Dasein Capital and Board member at Tauruseer. Thomas received a BSE from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Anatoli Likhachev
SVP Quant Strategy & Research
Responsible for product development, product integration and collaboration with partners.
Anatoli has over 20 years of experience in areas of finance, information technology and automated trading systems. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science at McGill University in Montreal. Anatoli devoted his Master’s Thesis to developing automated trading systems using neural nets and genetic algorithms. He is also a CFA, FRM, CAIA, FDP and CMT charterholder.
Charlie Ko
SVP Business Development
Responsible for sales and channel relationships.
Charlie has spent two decades applying data science and machine learning to some of the financial market’s most difficult challenges and has managed teams that have built data-driven investment models. Previously he was the Chief Revenue Officer of SlyceData and Chief Investment Officer of a private wealth manager with responsibilities for investment model design, commercialization and scaling. Charlie holds a BSME from MIT and MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Babak Afshin-Poor
SVP Technology
Responsible for streamlining the software architecture, managing the distributed computing environment and collaborating on machine learning and AI initiatives.
Babak’s experience and interests are in the areas of big data analysis using Apache Spark, advanced signal and image processing, and graph theoretical network analysis. Babak received a B.S. degree in biomedical engineering as well as his M.S. and PhD. in electrical engineering from University of Tehran with distinction. He then was awarded a three-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto.
Jeff Austin
Founder
Responsible for heading up product development.
Jeff has 20+ years trading client capital in the global macro quantitative space and has spent his entire career focused on securities trading and model building. Founder of Blackwater Capital Management, where he was the CIO and responsible for all model and portfolio construction, and trading FX, futures, equities and ETFs.
Scott Russo
Chief Financial Officer
Responsible for overseeing financial management.
Scott is also the Managing Partner of Dasein Capital, and previously the Managing Partner of Mogility Capital, and Co-Founder, COO & CFO at AdTheorent. He is a career entrepreneur and selective startup investor who has actively supported technological innovations in machine learning, data science, mobile applications and new media for over 20 years. Scott holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from Bucknell University.