Mr. Gelfond enjoyed a very successful career on Wall St. He was a Managing Director at Millennium Partners, L.P. from 1992-1998, where he developed proprietary quantitative financial forecasting and risk models. Prior to Millennium Partners, Mr. Gelfond was Director of International Trading at D. E. Shaw & Co, from 1989-1992. There, he was in charge of research, development, and implementation of a series of successful trading and arbitrage strategies in the global financial markets.
In addition to his other activities, Mr. Gelfond is concentrating on finding and funding emerging high potential technology companies, which has made Mr. Gelfond a recognized leader and visionary in this arena. Mr. Gelfond is a frequent speaker at industry events, discussing a broad range of business strategy and technology topics. Mr. Gelfond has been widely quoted in media such as the CIO, Computer World, InfoWorld, Technology Review, Light Reading, BBC, EETimes, Scientific American, MSNBC, PC Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, IEEE Spectrum, The New York Times, The Economist, Fortune, Financial Times, and Business Week.