James Smith

Founder, Board Director at Elliptic
  • Claim this Profile
Contact Information
us****@****om
(386) 825-5501
Location
London, England, United Kingdom, UK

Topline Score

Topline score feature will be out soon.

Bio

Generated by
Topline AI

You need to have a working account to view this content.
You need to have a working account to view this content.

Experience

    • United Kingdom
    • Financial Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Founder, Board Director
      • Sep 2021 - Present

      London, England, United Kingdom Product, product marketing, and go-to-market strategy.

    • Founder, CPTO, Board director
      • Apr 2020 - Sep 2021

      • Lead the product, engineering, and data teams, setting product and technology vision and strategy. • Cultivating a product culture of customer-centric, empowered teams. • Creating the world’s leading cryptocurrency compliance and data analytics solutions.

    • Founder, CEO, Board director
      • Oct 2013 - Apr 2020

      London, United Kingdom • Set company and product vision and strategy. • Raised $40m of venture capital funding over four rounds through to Series B. • Expanded internationally, with customers in 30+ countries and employees on three continents.

    • Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Seedcamp Mentor
      • Mar 2021 - Present

    • United Kingdom
    • Investment Management
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Non Executive Director
      • Jul 2014 - Apr 2018

      The world's first cryptocurrency hedge fund.

    • United Kingdom
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Trader, Relative Value Derivatives
      • Sep 2012 - Sep 2013

      • Managed a relative value volatility portfolio focusing on equity index options. • Analysed large data sets to identify opportunities. • Wrote a suite of software in C#, F#, and Scala to do data analysis, simulate order books, and manage orders, to inform and execute trading decisions.

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Trader, Fixed Income Derivatives
      • Sep 2009 - May 2012

      • Options market making and relative value trading in European interest rates voice markets. • Managed portfolio risk with two other traders. • Designed and developed several trading tools in C#, including an automated hedging system to manage futures orders and cope with changing market positions to optimise execution prices. • Redesigned pricing model to address inadequacies of firm’s previous model for interest rates.

Education

  • University of Oxford
    DPhil, Computer Science
    2005 - 2009
  • University of Cambridge
    MPhil, Computer Speech and Language
    2004 - 2005
  • University of Cambridge
    MA, Computer Science
    2001 - 2004

Community

You need to have a working account to view this content. Click here to join now