Founders
Dr. Nagendra B Bharatula
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Nagendra graduated with honours with a Masters from IIT Bombay, specializing in Semiconductor Electronics Engineering. He then received his PhD in Pattern Recognition and Information Theory from ETH Zürich, with stays as a visiting scholar at Georgia Tech and MIT. He worked and collaborated with acclaimed professors Gerhard Tröster, Paul Lukowicz, Albrecht Schmidt, Thad Starner, and Alex Pentland, in topics such as Machine Learning, Data Mining and Information Theory. Nagendra has worked and collaborated with several leading and boutique firms in the tech & finance industry, including Koninklijke Philips N. V. (DIMES), Intel, Swiss Re, Davinci and Bank of N. T. Butterfield & Son Ltd.
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Peter Forster
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Peter has over 25 years of work experience in Compliance, Legal, and Investor Relations. He holds a BA in Economics from Hochschule St. Gallen, a law degree from the University of Zürich Law School, and served as a visiting scholar at Stanford University. Peter worked at Credit Suisse, and the Swiss law firm Lenz & Staehelin. He has worked for international IT, Media Consulting, and Film Finance Firms. Peter has been working as an independent Legal and Business Consultant with an international client base since 1998. He represented Deutsche Bank Private Equity Fund of Funds, and ERGO Private Equity in Switzerland. He is a co-founder of Elysian Fields, a film financing and production company.
Jonathan Mathai
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Jonathan has 15 years of experience in bond and currency markets, particularly regarding emerging markets in Europe and Asia. He graduated from Imperial College London with a Masters degree in Information Systems Engineering, then graduated with distinction with a Masters in Mathematical Trading and Finance from CASS Business School, London. He worked at Goldman Sachs, then spent 10 years with UBS Investment Bank, designing and implementing systematic spot strategies in foreign exchange, then later managing their CEEMEA options book.