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2019 Year in Review
Talks about Blockchain, Quantstamp and Defi
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Richard Ma
Member at Forbes Technology Council
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Overview
Richard Ma is the CEO of Quantstamp, Inc, with a background as a Senior Quantitative Strategist at Tower Research Capital and experience as a Portfolio Manager in Proprietary Trading. He has invested in a diverse range of companies, including Hypernative, Modhaus, and The Fabricant, across various funding stages and sectors like FinTech and Web3/Crypto.
Ma's career highlights include leading Quantstamp, Inc as CEO and serving as a Co-Chair of Smart Contract Alliance at Chamber of Digital Commerce, showcasing his expertise in quantitative trading and strategic leadership in the tech and finance sectors.
Work Experience
CEO
2017 - Current
As CEO of Quantstamp, I manage product strategy, business development, engineering strategy, and hiring, with a goal of longterm sustainable success. Quantstamp's mission is to secure web3, and has protected $200B in digital asset risk from hackers. More than 750 startups, foundations and enterprises have worked with Quantstamp to keep their innovative products safe. Quantstamp is backed by YCombinator, Softbank Vision Fund, Pantera Capital, Nomura Investment Bank, Digital Garage, Translink, Pioneer Fund, 50 Years, Keisuke Honda, and other leading investors.
Quantstamp is a blockchain security company that provides security services and advisory support to major blockchain projects.
Raised $3,245,000.00 from ZMT Capital, FJ Labs, Serafund, Pantera Capital, Corner Capital Management, Eight Roads Ventures Japan, Tencent, SoftBank Vision Fund and Outliers Fund.
Member
2019
Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for senior-level tech executives.
Co-Chair of Smart Contract Alliance
2018 - 2019
Senior Quantitative Strategist
2015 - 2017
Worked in automated high frequency strategies with Sharpe ratios > 10 and strong alphas. Duties in the role cover the areas of algorithmic strategy development, quant research, recruiting, strategic planning, data mining, deployment operations, trading management, and expanding into new niches. Computing ability: Linux, C++, R, Python, MATLAB, SQL, Perl, Bash
Tower Research Capital is a computerized trading firm in the field of high-frequency trading.
Portfolio Manager
2014 - 2015
Managed Statistical Arbitrage Strategies in Commodity Futures in US, active in COMEX, NYMEX, ECBOT, GLOBEX products. Active trading in intermarket and calendar spreads.
Quant Derivatives Trader
2010 - 2014
Worked in high frequency and medium frequency strategies with high Sharpe ratios above 5. Principal trader for Kospi-Eurex options. Conducted Quant research. Managed assistant traders. Managed my own book. Direct report to the CEO. Worked on independent and team-based trading research in: - Kospi Index Options - US Energy Futures - Eurex Index Futures - US Single Stock Options - Machine Learning Neural Networks in Volatility Products, Oil Futures and Government Bonds Computing ability: Development Platform: Linux, vi, bash, subversion, Eclipse, Rstudio, Data Analysis and Scripting: R, MATLAB, Octave, Excel/VBA, SQL, Python, Perl, LaTeX, Sweave Trade Execution: C++