About

Execute everything, everywhere, always.

Strands is capital markets infrastructure for the tokenized era.

Origin

We built a hedge fund. People wanted the technology.

Strands began as a hedge fund. We were successfully executing complicated trades using smart contracts, tokens, and the on/off-chain rails that would've traditionally taken $100M+ dollar infrastructure and large teams of traders.

As we built the fund, investor capital was far more interested in the technology than the fund itself. "How are these trades even possible without $100M+ in resources?" The market was telling us, plainly, what it wanted: not another fund, but the infrastructure underneath it.

Strands was born from that demand. The same infrastructure that gave our fund the significant advantages on the returns and trades that were possible, is now the platform. One company, one stack, one API across every asset and every venue.

Core Team

Low-latency veterans and builders.

100+ years of combined experience at the elite levels of traditional finance. Extensive knowledge of digital assets. Distributed ledgers, smart contracts, trading floors, execution venues, exchanges, risk management, and custom hardware.

Tim Gorham
Co-founder & CEO
20+ yrs at the highest levels of volatility trading, market making, risk management, custom hardware, and algorithmic development. Architectural and theoretical smart contract design for Derive.xyz and spent 16 years as CIO of Consolidated Trading. Co-created the world's fastest known commercially available volatility trading engine.
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Henry Wu
Co-founder & Engineer
15+ yrs developing elite back-office and trading-related systems for global trading firms. Previously engineered systems at Consolidated Trading and AM Investment Partners. Holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
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Justin Swanson
Head of Product
11+ yrs designing full-stack trading suites, open-source APIs, and next-generation user interfaces. Previously shipped product and platform work at Group One Trading and Consolidated Trading.
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Amy Dinkar Patel
CEO, Ananke Asset Mgmt.
25+ yrs leading large-scale platforms and stewarding capital at a quarter-trillion-dollar scale. Previously EVP at TD Ameritrade, Managing Director at BMO Financial Group, and EVP at Bank of America.
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Spencer Kaehler
COO, Ananke Asset Mgmt.
15+ yrs operating and leading digital asset and derivatives trading business lines. Previously a Partner at Marquette Partners, where he founded and ran the firm's Digital Asset Trading Desk.
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Jacques Fernandes
President, Strands Group USA
25+ yrs in Chicago's broker-dealer industry. Founder of Toro Capital Management and previously an Index Trader at Consolidated Trading.
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Contact us
Strands Technologies, Ltd.
Intershore Chambers, P.O. Box 4342
Road Town, Tortola, VG 1110
British Virgin Islands
141 W Jackson Blvd, Suite 1710A
Chicago, IL 60604
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