Alex Stein

Alex Stein is a serial entrepreneur having co-founded and led four startups including FarSight Financial Services, the first Internet brokerage (acquired by Merrill Lynch), and Gomez, Inc, the leading Internet Performance Management company (acquired by Compuware). Most recently, Alex was a Managing Director at Two Sigma Investments where he built the firm’s global Alpha Capture program, which applies quantitative research to identify and extract investment signals in real-time from a global network of investment professionals. He also led the firm’s evaluation of systematic real-estate investing, co-led the Client Solutions platform and explored emerging technologies, including blockchain and distributed ledger systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at Digital Equipment’s VLSI facility in the Advanced Development group. Alex received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Dartmouth College.