Career

In 2014, Chris co-founded the first fiat gateway onto Ethereum, and incorporated it in Panama, where he lived while serving as CEO.

In 2016, Chris co-founded Neural Capital, a San Francisco-based long/short cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund, and served as Managing Partner.

During this time, Chris served as advisor to a number of notable cryptocurrency companies, including Protocol Ventures, a cryptoasset fund of funds, with investments in ten of the top performing crypto hedge funds, including BlockTower Capital, Multicoin Capital, Polychain Capital, Pantera Capital, and Metastable Capital.

In 2018, Chris founded Apex Token Fund, the first tokenized fund of funds - a master fund that was invested in ten of the top performing cryptocurrency hedge funds. Investor allocation in the master fund was represented by Apex tokens, which were easy to trade on exchanges, thus creating a liquid investment vehicle with no lock-up period. Apex democratized access to hedge funds for retail investors by requiring no minimum capital investment, as the pooled capital amount satisfied the minimum investment requirements for each portfolio fund.

In 2019, Chris served as COO of Mycelium Technologies, one of the largest cryptocurrency wallet companies in the world, which at that time held 5% of all Bitcoin in circulation. 

In 2020 Chris ran the MIT delta v accelerator and worked as a product manager for IDEO CoLab, a Venture Capital fund focused on Digital Assets.

Chris now runs Triton Liquid, a hedge fund founded in 2022, which he manages from Abu Dhabi.

Awards

At MIT Chris received the McKinsey Award Scholarship as well as the Legatum Foundry Fellowship. Through Legatum, Chris built a blockchain-based mobile banking platform (link) for developing markets.

Education

Chris attended undergrad at the University of Virginia where he pursued the Pre-Med track while obtaining a B.S. in Cognitive Science, with a focus in Neuroscience, B.A. in Spanish, and Masters in Commerce. Chris then attended the M.I.T. where he obtained an Masters/M.B.A, with a focus in Analytics.

Interests and Activities

Chris collaborates with students from the MIT Neuroscience department and MIT Media Lab on exploratory applications in VR, tangible user interfaces, and human computer interaction. 

Chris formerly served as president of the MIT Go Club, co-director of the MIT Bitcoin Expo, and director of technical innovation for the MIT Virtual Reality Club (link).