🧑‍🏫About the Team

Fyde's core team comes with experiences from NASA, JP Morgan, Bloomberg, Wintermute, Synthetix, and more. Team bios are below.

Andrey Stejko, PhD (Founder / CTO); Andrey has a PhD in Applied Physics from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he focused on research at the Centre for Computational Heliophysics. He is one of the youngest HSR grant recipients from NASA, where he currently conducts 3D global solar and stellar modeling on the Pleiades supercomputer. He is also the youngest co-investigator at the Stanford COFFIES DRIVE Center, where he conducts research on stellar modeling techniques. He completed his thesis on Acoustic Solar Modelling and Helioseismic Analysis and has previously conducted research at NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University focusing on magnetohydrodynamic plasma simulations.

Bo Zhang (Founder / Head of Investment Strategy): Bo has a decade of experience in investments, portfolio management, and research. He was Head of Research of the LBS Blockchain Society and Co-Founder of LBS DAO (alpha stage). Prior to this, he was a portfolio manager on the multi-asset team within JP Morgan’s Chief Investment Office in London covering equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities. This team was ranked #1 globally in Research Allocation and Investment Management by Euromoney in 2020 and 2019. Prior to this, Bo spent 4 years in New York as a Client Portfolio Manager focusing on UHNW and institutional clients within JP Morgan’s Private Bank. He began his career in the Investment Risk team at Chase.

Behrin Naidoo (Founder / Head of Strategic Finance): Behrin has over a decade of experience in investments, banking and advisory. He was most recently an Investment Executive at RMB Holdings and Rand Merchant Investment Holdings, focusing on unlisted early stage financial, insurance, and property related investments where he held both board and committee positions. Prior to this, he was a sell-side equity analyst at JP Morgan where he was a member of the highly rated #2 EMEA Equity Research Team. He began his career in the Banking & Capital Markets division at PwC. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds both a Finance and Accounting Honours as well as Masters in Finance from LBS.

Carlos Saavedra (Founder / Head of Ecosystem): Was awarded the LBS Student of the Year Award for academic excellence and being a co-founder of the LBS Blockchain Society. Graduated from London Business School in 2022 with a Masters in Finance, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a B.Sc. in Economics and attained a CFA® designation. Named to Inicio Ventures' 100 Rising Latinix Founders to Watch list. Recently, was an Investor at Rising Tide Ventures and Proptech Angel Group focusing on early-stage technology companies. Formerly a portfolio manager at Deutsche Bank covering alternative assets and an investment banker at NorthMarq Capital.

Alex Chalard, PhD (Smart Contract Developer): Alex is a PhD in Neuroscience and researcher from UCLA, where he conducted studies focusing on understanding the role of brain oscillation in motor recovery after strokes. He has been involved in several crypto projects with a focus on smart contract development and security. Most notably, he was the lead solidity developer in CharlieDAO for a DeFi protocol called TrueFreeze, and was a solo auditor.

Timo Neumann, PhD (Smart Contract Developer): Timo is a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from Cambridge University, where he conducted experimental and computational research on magnetic semiconductors and their charge carrier dynamics. During his studies, he was a teaching assistant for scientific computing and worked on data science consulting projects in the energy and healthcare industry. Timo's interest and technical knowledge of blockchain technology stems from his involvement in the Cambridge Blockchain Society and from various bootcamps including the Encode Solidity Expert and the Polkadot Blockchain Academy.

Rohan Sundar (Token Engineer): Rohan is a Applied Mathematics and Statistics from SUNY, represented the United States at the 2012 International Supercomputing Competition in Hamburg, Germany where he worked specifically on network design. Previous work includes health tech and energy tech, as well as building border surveillance systems for the defense department with custom machine learning models. In the web3 space, he has had experience creating custom market making bots for high frequency trading, has worked on a handful of smaller NFT projects (e.g. MintingPress), and is one of the core members and educators behind Token Engineering Commons. He is also a core contributor to TokenSPICE - an EVM agent-based token simulator.

Victoria Gong, Msc (Quantitative Strategies): Victoria has a MSc Finance at Imperial College London, and specialised in Quantitative Finance in her bachelors. Prior to joining Fyde, Victoria worked at Capstone Investment Advisors, where she developed options based delta neutral systematic trading models. She has previous experience as well at CITIC, where she worked in investment banking with a focus on deep tech. She began her career at Raiffeisen Bank as a financial engineer.