Roman Ginis's guest appearances

Roman Ginis

Waters Wavelength

Appetite for Disruption:  The Business and Regulation of FinTech

Naval Ravikant

Richard Johnson

Melanie Mitchell

Amir Haleem

Hester Peirce

Sylvester Johnson

Matt Levine

Paul Chou

Balaji Srinivasan

Jesse Lund

Suresh Kumar

Bill Murphy

Tony Amicangioli

Samantha Radocchia

Adena Friedman

OwlTail

Our interview with Roman Ginis continues in a more philosophical vein, as we talk about the perspective and spirit of engineers and the open source movement. We also cover what “optimization” (as compared to “maximization” or “minimization”) is all about. Optimization takes a lot of hard work, trial and error, a good sense of the problem you're trying to solve, and recognizing that decisions involve trade-offs. Troy and Lee have a post-interview discussion about where marketplaces and machines will fit in the world of tomorrow.

Our interview with Roman Ginis continues in a more philosophical vein, as we talk about the perspective and spirit of engineers and the open source movement. We also cover what “optimization” (as compared to “maximization” or “minimization”) is all about. Optimization takes a lot of hard work, trial and error, a good sense of the problem you're trying to solve, and recognizing that decisions involve trade-offs. Troy and Lee have a post-interview discussion about where marketplaces and machines will fit in the world of tomorrow.

Roman Ginis, Part 2: Optimizing Marketplaces (and Everything Else)

Roman Ginis is the CEO of Imperative Execution, a firm that is dedicated to using AI and machine learning to create a better trading experience. For example, can you buy or sell without your own buying or selling affecting the price at which you trade? Even though people have been trading securities (and other things) for a very long time, there is still room for technological innovation. We discuss with Roman how new technology allows new ways of addressing longstanding challenges.

Roman Ginis is the CEO of Imperative Execution, a firm that is dedicated to using AI and machine learning to create a better trading experience. For example, can you buy or sell without your own buying or selling affecting the price at which you trade? Even though people have been trading securities (and other things) for a very long time, there is still room for technological innovation. We discuss with Roman how new technology allows new ways of addressing longstanding challenges.

Roman Ginis, Part 1: Making Marketplaces More Intelligent

After the Soviet Union broke apart, Roman Ginis and his family left Ukraine and came to America. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the California Institute of Technology, and then landed engineering jobs at Intel, IBM and BAE Systems. From there, he moved to Wall Street as a junior quant at UBS, developing execution technologies and quantitative analytics for electronic market-making for the investment bank. That led to a job at Cubist Systematic Strategies, the quant trading arm of Point72 Asset Management.After seven years at the hedge fund, he shipped off to create a startup called Imperative Execution, the parent of IntelligentCross, a dark pool that uses AI to improve match times on a security-by-security basis to reduce market impact. Imperative Execution is backed by a consortium of investors, including Point72.Ginis talks about his career, the challenges of creating a startup, and how the world of trade execution is evolving.

After the Soviet Union broke apart, Roman Ginis and his family left Ukraine and came to America. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the California Institute of Technology, and then landed engineering jobs at Intel, IBM and BAE Systems. From there, he moved to Wall Street as a junior quant at UBS, developing execution technologies and quantitative analytics for electronic market-making for the investment bank. That led to a job at Cubist Systematic Strategies, the quant trading arm of Point72 Asset Management. After seven years at the hedge fund, he shipped off to create a startup called Imperative Execution, the parent of IntelligentCross, a dark pool that uses AI to improve match times on a security-by-security basis to reduce market impact. Imperative Execution is backed by a consortium of investors, including Point72. Ginis talks about his career, the challenges of creating a startup, and how the world of trade execution is evolving.