Adrian Sisser

Prior to founding Seven Eight, Adrian spent over five years at IVC Americas where he co-managed the Statistical Arbitrage Group. Adrian also worked at Data Mining Systems (DMS), where he implemented a successful HFT strategy and built a new capital allocation system among systematic futures strategies. His career in finance began at Lehman Brothers, where he managed the real-time risk and PNL systems for equities trading and worked on a Proprietary Trading desk researching quantitative trading systems. Before moving to New York, Adrian spent time in Austin, Texas, and co-founded a web startup which was quickly acquired by New York-based Bolt Media. Adrian holds a BA in Computer Science and Chemistry from Duke University and an MS in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University.

Adrian is also an Adjunct Professor at The City University of NY - Baruch in the Master of Financial Engineering program, where he teaches Machine Learning in Finance.