I am the founder and CEO of Imperative Execution. We build trading platforms to democratize great execution. IntelligentCross, our Equities ATS, is a leading US equities trading venue that uses AI to optimize price discovery. Its matching logic enables participants to quote better prices and tighter spreads than on traditional exchanges. This makes the market more efficient and lowers trading costs for investors. Find out more at: www.intelligentcross.comPrior to founding Imperative Execution I was a quantitative trader at Cubist and UBS, where I developed and traded market making and medium frequency strategies. Before finance I worked on projects in pattern recognition for network security (at BAE) and real-time stream processing algorithms (at IBM). I received my Ph.D from Caltech in computer science, working on distributed systems, statistical performance analysis and discrete optimization.Interests: building great products, market structure, algorithmic execution, statistical analysis on streaming data, Linux system programming.