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Jakob is the President 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.
James Woodman
James Woodman is co-founder of Manifold Labs and former COO of Bittensor. He previously worked in business development at GSR. He is a graduate of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
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.
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.
Andreas Koukorinis
Andreas Koukorinis is the Trading head of GSR, having previously been a senior executive at jpmorgan.
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.
Jon Loflin
Jon Loflin is the Head of Alpha Strategies & Managing Director at GSR.
Richard Rosenblum
Rich Rosenblum is the former Co-Founder and Co-CEO 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).
Quynh Ho
Quynh Ho is the head of venture capital and corporate development at GSR. She graduated from the University of Bath.