# Austin Trombley

> Austin Trombley is the founder and CEO of Satschel, Inc., the Whitefish, Montana parent company behind Liquidity.io (a regulated tokenized trading platform), Simplici (KYC/AML onboarding and compliance), and ARQ Securities. A software engineer turned fintech executive, he co-founded the machine-learning hedge fund Random Forest Capital, which Franklin Templeton acquired roughly 15 months in, then served as VP of Blockchain & AI at Franklin Templeton and EVP at the payments company SpotOn before building Satschel's stack for bringing private credit and private equity onto public blockchains.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Satschel, Inc. (Liquidity.io / Simplici / ARQ Securities)
- **Organizations:** Satschel, Inc., Liquidity.io, Simplici, ARQ Securities LLC, tokenvault, Random Forest Capital LLC, Franklin Templeton, SpotOn
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor's in Economics & Business, University of Kansas, MBA, Rockhurst University, Post-Baccalaureate, Information Systems (NoSQL, Python), University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-founded Random Forest Capital and sold it to Franklin Templeton roughly 15 months after founding., Built tokenvault, which created an early blockchain-based Transfer Agency and a mutual fund on-chain., Secured FINRA approval for a blockchain ATS to tokenize securities on Polygon via ARQ Securities.

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Co-founded Random Forest Capital, a machine-learning quantitative lending hedge fund, serving as CTO.
- **2018** — Franklin Templeton (Franklin Resources) acquired Random Forest Capital.
- **2017-2020** — Vice President of Blockchain & AI at Franklin Templeton.
- **2020** — Executive Vice President at SpotOn, a payments company processing $15B+ annually.
- **2022** — Became CEO and Board Member of Simplici; built out Satschel, Inc.
- **2024** — ARQ Securities received its Digital ATS license; Liquidity.io launched with $1B+ in LOIs (Oct 29, 2024).

## Achievements

- Co-founded Random Forest Capital and sold it to Franklin Templeton roughly 15 months after founding.
- Built tokenvault, which created an early blockchain-based Transfer Agency and a mutual fund on-chain.
- Secured FINRA approval for a blockchain ATS to tokenize securities on Polygon via ARQ Securities.
- Launched Liquidity.io with over $1 billion in letters of intent from private credit originators, banks, broker-dealers and RIAs.
- Shipped Simplici, an end-to-end KYC/AML onboarding and compliance flow targeting under-4-minute completion.

## Latest updates

- **2024-10** — Liquidity.io launched via ARQ Securities' Digital ATS license with $1B+ in LOIs, bridging to Solana, Polygon and Avalanche.

## Links

- Website: https://satschel.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austintrombley/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/satschel

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