Chief Investment Officer
Jerzy Pawlowski
Jerzy Pawlowski brings years of experience in portfolio management to the team, including specialization in credit derivatives, emerging markets, and CDOs. In addition to his role at Predictive Trading Systems he teaches graduate courses in R for Finance and Algorithmic Portfolio Management at NYU.
Education
University of Buffalo
PhD, Physics
Jagiellion University
Masters Degree, Physics
Experience
Portfolio Manager at Millennium Partners
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Chief Strategy Officer
Adam Israel
Adam Israel is a FINRA registered broker and senior financial services executive. He has both national and international experience, including managing front, middle, and support functions.
Experience
Chief Administrative Officer at HSBC
Manhattan Regional Manager at JPMorgan Chase
Education
NYU Stern
MBA
chief NLP Scientist
Zhenya Antic
Zhenya Antić is an expert in Natural Language Processing, having worked for FactSet Research Systems and as an independent NLP consultant. She has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of California Berkeley and a BS in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..
Education
MIT
BS, Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
PhD, Linguistics
Technology
Natural Language Processing (sklearn, gensim, spaCy), Feature Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning analysis
Programming Skills: Python, Java, Perl, MySQL, Linux
Previous Employment
FactSet Research Systems
chief Financial Officer
Jack Marhofer, CPA
Jack Marhofer, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Predictive Trading Systems, is helping this FinTech startup grow and achieve our strategic goals. Jack is committed to providing financial leadership from securing capital to creating an integrated financial infrastructure that connects the entire virtual organization. His most recent position was as CFO of Resolute Digital, a digital marketing company, that was partially owned by the members of PTS. After Resolute Digital was sold to the Interpublic Group of Companies, he started his own firm, JAM CFO Services, and joined PTS. Prior to Resolute Digital, he was the CFO of Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., (NASDAQ:CBLI) where he successfully completed an IPO for a startup biotech firm and helped raise over $100M in equity investing and government funding. He was also Corporate Controller of Litehouse Products, Inc. a large pool and recreational products retailer and distributor in the Midwest. Mr. Marhofer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Marketing from Miami University and a Masters in Business Administration in Finance from Akron University.
Previous employment
• CFO, Resolute Digital (2005-2019)
• CFO, Cleveland BioLabs, Inc.
• Corporate Controller, Litehouse Products
Education
University of Akron
MBA Finance
Miami University of Ohio
B.S., Accounting and English Marketing
Chief Marketing Officer
Matt Beckemeyer
Matt Beckemeyer is an analytics and growth marketing specialist, with years of experience building companies. After helping to build his first startup to a company of 150+ employees, he has consulted for dozens of companies ranging from pre-seed to the Fortune 50.
Education
University of Colorado
BA Astronomy
Experience
Associate Partner, Search & Analytics, Resolute Digital
eCommerce Lead, quirky.com
Director SEM/SEO/Analytics, Market Maker Interactive
Advisory Board
Marco Veissid
Marco is a successful relationship management and business development leader with 30+ years in the asset management industry. Marco started his career at Bankers Trust Investment Management and then Deutsche Asset Management where he led the institutional sales team focused on alternative and multi asset strategies. Most recently he was executive management committee member for QS Investors a $20 billion quantitative asset management firm. Marco received his MBA from NYU and has his series 7 and 24 licenses.
Experience
Head of Relationship Management, QS Investors
Director Institutional Services, Davis Advisors
Education
NYU Stern
MBA, Finance