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Vijay Kedia and the freedom to trade your own way
Vijay Kedia built FlexTrade around a trader’s need for control. Thirty years after its founding, the same idea runs through a business connecting brokers, markets and increasingly complicated decisions.
Reed Werbitt and the Quiet Business of Making Crypto Tradable
Before digital assets became an institutional asset class, Reed Werbitt learned to move size without making a scene. Now Flowdesk's U.S. CEO and Global CRO is applying that old trading discipline to a market that never closes.
Damián Scavo Is Teaching AI to Do the Homework of Money
Before financial AI became a category, Scavo had already spent two decades moving between code, markets and data. Streetbeat is his attempt to turn that unusual apprenticeship into an agent that can make financial work less manual - without pretending judgment has disappeared.
Sergey Savastiouk
Sergey Savastiouk, Ph.D., is the founder and CEO of Tickeron, a Reno-based platform that pairs artificial intelligence with plain-language explanation to give self-directed investors and advisors trading signals, pattern recognition, and automated 'AI robots.' A former applied-mathematics professor at Santa Clara University with two prior startups behind him, he turned the losses of the 2008 crisis into a mission to hand retail investors the kind of algorithmic tools once reserved for institutions.
Eva Sehic
Eva Sehic is the CEO of Lime Trading, a New York agency broker that provides fast, scalable direct market access to US equities and options markets. She stepped into the top job in September 2024 after joining as COO a year earlier, and brings more than two decades of markets experience from Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Sberbank's New York operation, where she served as COO and CEO. Known for pairing operational discipline with a bet on AI, blockchain and machine learning, she was named Excellence in Innovation winner at the 2024 Markets Media Women in Finance Awards and Vendor Professional of the Year at the 2025 Witad Awards.
Christina Qi
Christina Qi is the CEO of Databento, an on-demand market-data platform for quants and asset managers, and a founding partner of Domeyard LP, one of the longest-running high-frequency trading hedge funds in the world. She started Domeyard from an MIT dorm room with $1,000 in savings, grew it to trade billions of dollars a day, then wound it down and built Databento to fix the broken market-data infrastructure that had frustrated her for a decade. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, MIT trustee, and financial-literacy advocate, Qi turned a rough start into a career spent lowering the barriers to Wall Street for everyone else.
Hitoshi Harada
Hitoshi Harada is the Co-Founder, CTO, and CPO of Alpaca Markets - the fintech unicorn building what he calls the 'Global Financial OS.' A Keio University-trained computer scientist who rewrote parts of PostgreSQL (Window Functions, PL/v8), Harada spent years building distributed databases at Greenplum before co-founding Alpaca in 2015 with Yoshi Yokokawa. The company, named after an alpaca they spotted on a Silicon Valley billionaire's estate, has grown to command 94% of the global tokenized US equities market, serve 300+ financial institutions across 40+ countries, and reach unicorn status at $1.15B valuation with a $150M Series D in January 2026.
Yoshi Yokokawa
Yoshi Yokokawa is the co-founder and CEO of Alpaca, the San Mateo-based API-first brokerage infrastructure company that powers over 300 global fintech partners across 45 countries. A former Lehman Brothers analyst and forex trader turned repeat entrepreneur, Yoshi built Alpaca from a YC W19 startup into a $1.15 billion unicorn after raising a $150 million Series D in January 2026. His vision: a 'Global Financial OS' that makes investing borderless, accessible, and developer-native.
Peter Lee
Peter Lee is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Coactive AI, a San Jose-based enterprise AI platform that helps Fortune 500 companies search, tag, and analyze visual content using multimodal AI. He brings over a decade of experience across algorithmic equity trading at PEAK6, strategic consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton, and high-stakes M&A advisory at Guggenheim Securities - where he worked on transactions totaling more than $10 billion in enterprise value. A Wharton MBA and MIT Management Science graduate, Peter joined Coactive in 2025 as the company scaled following its $30 million Series B round.