Background in software engineering and machine learning. Previously CTO at Wishbox.gift, building full-stack operations software. With a wealth of tech startup experience, Austin brings a skillset balanced between technology and business.

Previously a Managing Director at BMO and Merrill Lynch, Tony is an investment executive with over 20 years of sales, business development, and management experience in capital markets, alternative investments, and financial technology. He has strong, in-depth industry and market knowledge which leverages senior leadership roles at a major Canadian bank, large global dealer, domestic asset manager, and the fintech industry.

Expert researcher with a PhD in computational biology and bioinformatics, with a passion for algorithm design. Extensive experience with scalable big data applications and distributed computing. Multiple publications in scientific journals, including Nature and Cell.

Emilie is an independent consultant and public speaker focusing on digital assets, Emilie helps companies and investors understand tomorrow’s decentralized economy, and unlock its potential. Emilie also contributes to the associative side of the Blockchain ecosystem through her active participation in the Swiss "CryptoValley Association" and the decentralized collective "Blockchain for Humanity".

Previously worked as a currency trader for proprietary trading firm. Analyst as a Swiss private bank. Leads the team in creating strategies for automated trading systems and technical analysis research.

Michael is the Founder and CEO of MLG Blockchain, as well as the Founder and CEO of Global Digital Assets, a merchant bank and capital advisory firm focused on digital assets. He was the first enterprise blockchain developer for TD Bank and has been a key influencer in the Digital Asset Industry since 2014.

Vlad joined Consilium as a software developer in 2018. With a background in Mathematics and Statistics he began by building a backtester engine and designing all sorts of trading strategies such as circular arbitrage, market making and pairs trading. As time went on, he spent more effort on projects related to core infrastructure such as data ingestion & persistence, producing internal abstractions to make the job of R&D team easier. Being a small team at the time, Vlad was accumulating responsibilities orthogonal to writing code. His job became more of an “early employee”. He would take on tasks such as acclimatizing new people, participating in recruiting events or editing marketing campaign videos.

Andrei is a machine learning developer at Consilium Crypto specializing in natural language processing (NLP). He has built end-to-end pipelines for automatically gathering, analyzing, and visualizing large amounts of live unstructured text data from across the web. In order to help find the signal in the noise, these pipelines successfully leverage state-of-the-art deep learning techniques to automatically analyze millions of text documents. Andrei also contributes to Consilium Crypto’s research and development efforts on time-series modelling of orderbook data, and reinforcement-learning based trading.

Brendan Holt is the CEO of Holdun, an award-winning 5th generation multi-family office headquartered in the Bahamas offering wealth management, trust services and a number of concierge offerings. He was an investor in Uber, Stradigi AI, Falcon 5 and many other innovative startups.

Olga has a track record of creating profitable strategic partnerships with investors and managing global emerging Fintech products. Her focus is on the intersection of early stage startup development, corporate innovation and behavioral science. Currently, she is a Senior Advisor to Holt Accelerator, a family office-backed Fintech AI Accelerator, where she mentors tech founders and contributes to portfolio growth.

Terence is a Quantitative Developer at Consilium Crypto. With a background in portfolio management and machine learning, he works on extracting trading signals from high-frequency trading data by implementing machine learning and statistical models. Terence is a Calvin Potter Fellow of Concordia’s Kenneth Woods Portfolio Management Program and completed his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Prior to joining Consilium Crypto, Terence worked as a Quantitative Analyst within the Investment Research team of Wealthsimple in Toronto and locally at Desjardins Global Asset Management within the Canadian Equity team.

Jean-Francis holds a bachelor of science in mathematics with a specialization in actuarial science and a masters in computer science with a specialization in machine learning. He is currently a doctoral student in computer science at Université de Montréal where he studies applications of stochastic modeling and machine learning in high frequency trading. Jean-Francis has joined Consilium in March 2020. Currently he is working on a simulator for which the goal is to eventually train reinforcement learning agents to better execute orders in the fragmented cryptocurrency markets. Possible applications include market-making and price impact minimization.

Computer Science Undergraduate student who is exploring the world of web development. Kenji helps out with website updates and software-related tasks. Previously occupied position as Director of Logistics at ConUHacksV and has internship experiences including Ubisoft.

As the Marketing and Business Development Intern, Anikait works toward not only increasing Consilium’s social media engagements, but at the same time focuses on product lead generation and expanding site traffic. Passionate about the Fintech industry, he is well equipped with experience ranging from data analysis, research and development, and public speaking.

Alex holds a bachelors of Commerce in Finances from McGill University and is currently interested in Data Science and Programming. He is a python programmer and data scientist that previously worked at Flinks and has joined us for a 2-month project with involving cataloguing order book and transaction data.