Jake Gibson
Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures
Jake Gibson
Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures
San Mateo, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2019 - Current
BTV is an early stage venture fund focused on building the future of fintech.
Investor
2016 - 2019
Mentor and investor at the best accelerator for early stage fintech companies
Angel Investor
2013 - 2019
angel.co/jacob-gibson
Board Member
2015 - 2017
COO, Co-founder
2010 - 2014
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Vice President, North American Interest Rate Trading
2008 - 2010
- Priced trades for hedge fund clients while co-managing a market making portfolio of USD interest rate swaps - Oversaw the development of various front office trading technologies, including tools for intraday risk management, quantitative trade analysis, and automated trading - Lead the expansion of the algorithmic trading business, taking a black box model and growing it into a platform generating tens of millions of dollars
Associate, Interest Rate Proprietary Trading
2004 - 2008
- Oversaw risk and executed trades across USD interest rate markets, including swaps and swaptions, treasuries and agencies, and Eurodollar and treasury futures - Worked with Research to design and configure quantitative derivative pricing models, such as a stochastic vol model, for rapid intraday trade analysis - Lead a team of software developers in designing and troubleshooting an automated electronic trading platform for use across multiple asset classes
Education
BS
2000 - 2004