Calvin Lin

Calvin Lin is the Director of Marketing at Brilliant.org. Prior to joining Brilliant, they were an options market maker at Optiver, where they were responsible for making markets in silver commodity options. Calvin was consistently ranked by Comex as one of the top two market makers for silver options, based on liquidity provided and volume traded.

In 2011, Calvin achieved double the profit target by capitalizing on market inefficiencies. Calvin also conducted bi-weekly teaching sessions for trainees, covering options theory, system and position taking. In addition, they identified errors in a risk management tool that misstated risk exposure.

Before joining Optiver, Calvin was a research assistant at the University of Chicago Economics Department from June 2008 to September 2008. Calvin also served as a research assistant to Professor Paul Sally in the Mathematics department at the University of Chicago from June 2006 to December 2007.

Calvin Lin completed their Master of Science in Mathematics at the University of Chicago and their Bachelor's degree in Economics also at the University of Chicago. Prior to that, they attended Hwa Chong Junior College and Raffles Institution.

They are on a team with Jack Kovacich - Marketing Creative Director, Brett Hutton - Lifecycle Marketing Lead. Their manager is Michael Spaziani, Chief of Staff, Marketing.