Eliot Samuels Email & Phone Number

SolidusLink is a technology driven market maker pioneering new infrastructure for a multi-trillion-dollar segment of global finance. Our management and board have led important innovations at leading tech firms and financial institutions. Our team members' most important achievements include building a top-3 US asset management brand with some $1T in.

Basel, Switzerland

Charitable foundation overseen by Eidgenössische Stiftungsaufsicht (Switzerland's Federal Supervisory Authority for Foundations)

SEC-registered long/short Equity Hedge Fund In Greenwich, CT

• Member of 6-person investment team that grew client assets from $250 million to $1 billion
• Generated $100M+ in net profits from the sectors I covered: financials, tech, and fintech
• Oversaw our firm's significant long-term investments in IPO of Visa (5x+ return) and MasterCard (10x+ return)
• In 2008, our firm had zero losses in the financials, fintech, and tech portfolio
• After a 10-year run managing public equities for clients, PilotRock's founder converted to a family office and broadened my role to oversee both his public and private equity investments in financial technology, which.
• Earned 10x+ return on MasterCard (MA) and 5x return on Visa (V) investments, starting in July 2006

• (Summer 2008) SOLD 100% OF LONG POSITIONS PRIOR TO FINANCIAL CRISIS
• In the three months leading up to the financial crisis, we liquidated 100% of all stock holdings that I had covered
• We sold ~$200M of Visa, MasterCard & RIM/BlackBerry shares between July and September 2008, helping our firm avoid $100M+ in losses during September-December 2008
• In 2009 we bought back long-term holdings of MasterCard and Visa, which yielded 10x+ and 5x+ returns for our funds(2007–2009) US REGIONAL BANKS SHORT STRATEGY
• In August 2007, created strategy to sell short shares of US regional banks that had excessive real estate development and land loans (making up 24-39% of their total loan portfolios)
• These bank stocks dropped by 80%+ in the 18 months following August 2007

New York, NY

• Built mission-critical systems to digitize core risk infrastructure for two top-10 banks, helping EY earn $10M+ in advisory fees
• Below are two examples of how my team solved problems for leading financial institutionsTOP-10 US BANK: CORE RISK INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION
• Built, in collaboration with bank's senior business and risk teams, the core risk models for loan portfolio worth $200B+ improving: – pricing of loans at one of the largest U.S. commercial lenders – computation of.
• Oversaw analysis of loan performance data and backtesting involving hundreds of bank team members
• Helped bank's management win buy-in for modernization initiatives that had substantial impact across large organizationTOP-5 CANADIAN BANK: COMMODITIES LITIGATION SETTLEMENT
• Helped a top-5 Canadian bank and their legal counsel successfully settle litigation with a Fortune-100 energy company that had defaulted on portfolio of OTC derivatives on commodities worth $1B+

New York, NY

• QUANT TEAM, EY NATIONAL DERIVATIVES VALUATION CENTER
• Built models to value portfolios of OTC derivatives for ~100 audit clients, including top credit card issuers and multi-billion-$ hedge funds
• Helped dozens of clients to catch OTC derivative valuation mistakes and to get them fixed
• Specialized in valuing interest rate swaps/swaptions/exotic options, credit derivatives, and derivatives on commoditiesAUDIT TEAM, TOP-10 GLOBAL BANK'S DERIVATIVES BUSINESS
• Audited one of Wall Street's largest portfolios of interest rate and credit derivativesAUDIT TEAM, TOP-10 GLOBAL VC/PE FIRM
• Audited all aspects of funds' financial statements—everything from cash to valuation of private equity investments worth ~$10B

Ph.D. Courses In Computer Science & Financial Engineering—Taken As Non-Degree Student (Gpa 4.0/4.0)

B.A., Accounting & Information Systems And Economics, With High Honors

• President, ΟΔΕ (Economics Honor Society) - elected president during both junior & senior years • Fed Challenge - led top-3 team in.

B.Arch. (Bachelor Of Architecture) Candidate

Education record