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Robert Gelfond, CEO and Founder
 Founder & Chief
Executive Officer – Bob Gelfond – provides the vision and
leadership which have established MagiQ’s
reputation as a next-generation technology leader with its pioneering work
in commercializing quantum information processing.
Prior to
founding MagiQ in 1999, Bob had extensive experience evaluating and
investing in early-stage, high technology companies. An active angel, he
was a first-round investor in Amazon.com, Vindigo,
and CoAxia. Bob
was also a first-round investor and sits on the Board of Directors of Actuality Systems, Inc.
– manufacturers of spatial 3D displays.
Bob’s
expertise and influence have made him a recognized leader in the industry.
Bob is a frequent speaker at industry events, discussing a broad range of
business strategy and quantum information topics. Bob has been widely
quoted in media such as the CIO, ComputerWorld,
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 BusinessWeek.
Before
founding MagiQ, Bob 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. His track record of
profitable portfolio management earned him the highest documented Sharpe
ratio (risk-adjusted returns) of any trader in the industry in
1995 and 1996.
Prior to
Millennium Partners, Bob 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 1982,
Bob founded Statistical Analysis Research and Development Co. where he
developed revolutionary trading strategies for stock index futures and
options.
Bob
graduated from the University
of Virginia with
degrees in Mathematics and Economics in 1981.
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