James Smith
Founder, Board Director at Elliptic- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Elliptic
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Founder, Board Director
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Sep 2021 - Present
London, England, United Kingdom Product, product marketing, and go-to-market strategy.
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Founder, CPTO, Board director
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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.
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Founder, CEO, Board director
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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.
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Seedcamp
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Seedcamp Mentor
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Mar 2021 - Present
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GABI Fund PLC
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United Kingdom
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Investment Management
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1 - 100 Employee
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Non Executive Director
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Jul 2014 - Apr 2018
The world's first cryptocurrency hedge fund.
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Liquid Capital Group
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Trader, Relative Value Derivatives
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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.
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Wolverine Trading
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United States
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Financial Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Trader, Fixed Income Derivatives
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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.
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Education
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University of Oxford
DPhil, Computer Science -
University of Cambridge
MPhil, Computer Speech and Language -
University of Cambridge
MA, Computer Science