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Profile of Bob Gelfond
 

Bob Gelfond

 
Founder - NY, CEO - MagiQ Technologies Inc.
 
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Company Name : MagiQ Technologies Inc.
 
Company Website : www.magiqtech.com
 
Company Address : 171 Madison Ave.
Ste. 1300, New York, NY,
United States,
 
Bob Gelfond Profile :
Founder - NY, CEO - MagiQ Technologies Inc.
 
Bob Gelfond Biography :

Bob Gelfond provides the vision and leadership which have established MagiQ’s reputation as a next-generation technology leader with its pioneering work in commercializing quantum information processing. Prior to founding MagiQ in 1999, Bob had extensive experience evaluating and investing in early-stage, high technology companies. An active angel, he was a first-round investor in Amazon.com, Vindigo, and CoAxia. Bob was also a first-round investor and sits on the Board of Directors of Actuality Systems, Inc. manufacturers of spatial 3D displays. Bob’s expertise and influence have made him a recognized leader in the industry. Bob is a frequent speaker at industry events, discussing a broad range of business strategy and quantum information topics. Bob has been widely quoted in media such as the CIO, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, Technology Review, Light Reading, BBC, EETimes, Scientific American, MSNBC, PC Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, IEEE Spectrum, The New York Times, The Economist, Fortune, Financial Times, and BusinessWeek. Before founding MagiQ, Bob enjoyed a very successful career on Wall St. He was a Managing Director at Millennium Partners, L.P. from 1992-1998, where he developed proprietary quantitative financial forecasting and risk models. His track record of profitable portfolio management earned him the highest documented Sharpe ratio (risk-adjusted returns) of any trader in the industry in 1995 and 1996. Prior to Millennium Partners, Bob was Director of International Trading at D. E. Shaw & Co, from 1989-1992. There, he was in charge of research, development, and implementation of a series of successful trading and arbitrage strategies in the global financial markets. In 1982, Bob founded Statistical Analysis Research and Development Co. where he developed revolutionary trading strategies for stock index futures and options. Bob graduated from the University of Virginia with degrees in Mathematics and Economics in 1981.

 
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Audrius Berzankis

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Michael Lagasse

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Kevin Latraverse

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