Rob co-founded IEX in 2012 after experiencing the imbalances taking place from high-speed trading, further revealing flawed strategies within the system. In the pursuit of integrity and meaningful work, Rob and his co-founders came together to determine how they could sound the alarm and drive change in the industry. Ultimately, they decided that the best way to truly change the system was to build a new exchange from scratch that would put the interests of investors first: The Investors Exchange. IEX is now the 8th largest global stock exchange by notional value traded. As CTO, Rob is the brains behind IEX’s technology functions, was the original developer of the IEX Exchange tech stack, and remains hands on in the day-to-day development of IEX’s future technologies.

Founding partner of Quantera Financial, a quantitative, high-frequency hedge fund based in Toronto. Quantera supplied trading capital, infrastructure, and knowledge, while partnering with experts in Mathematics, Machine Learning, and Physics to develop trading models.