John Gu

John Gu is the Founder and CEO of AlphaLab Capital. John has over fifteen years of experience in the financial industry, including stints as a research scientist, portfolio manager, and quantitative researcher.

Gu began their career as a research scientist at AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, where they worked for three years before moving to frame.ai as co-founder and managing director of APAC. At frame.ai, they helped enterprises build conversational services over messaging platforms powered by human/AI collaboration.

In 2011, Gu left frame.ai to become a portfolio manager at Tower Research Capital, where they led a team of developers and traders in the research and implementation of automated quantitative trading strategies. The strategies focused primarily on Asian markets and achieved consistent double digit Sharpe Ratios and triple digit IRR's.

After two years at Tower Research Capital, Gu moved to Gelber Group LLC as a portfolio manager before joining Citadel Investment Group as a quantitative researcher in 2006. John remained with Citadel Investment Group for two years before returning to AlphaSimplex Group as CEO in 2008.

Under Gu's leadership, AlphaSimplex Group has become one of the premier data science and fintech firms in the world, with clients including some of the largest hedge funds, banks, and insurance companies.

John Gu completed a Master of Science in Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Management also at MIT. Wilde Lake High School was their high school.

Carolina Suh - Head of Business Development, Shane Haas - Head of Statistical Arbitrage, and Michal Krasnodebski - Founder & COO report to John Gu.