Member Introduction
Natasha Smirnov
Thekolai Investment | Futures Strategy Director
▶Natasha Smirnov graduated from the famous Wharton School of Business in the United States, majoring in financial engineering. During her time at school, she obtained a master’s degree in finance with excellent results and won the “Excellent Financial Analyst Scholarship” many times.
Core Areas
▶ Main: Commodity futures and financial derivatives quantitative strategies (crude oil/gold/stock index futures)
▶ Auxiliary: cross-market portfolio allocation (stock + ETF fund hedging strategy)
Aniya Pasternak
Mergers and Acquisitions/Restructuring/Business/Investment
Aniya graduated from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, with excellent academic performance. After graduation, she returned to school for further studies and obtained an EMBA degree. Currently, she is mainly responsible for mergers and acquisitions and restructuring at Fidelity Investments
Main: foreign exchange, gold, cryptocurrency
Jana Melton
Thekolai Investment | Chief Strategist
Jana Melton graduated from the University of Chicago with a master’s degree in financial engineering. With a focus on both academics and practice, she has won academic and industry awards for her solid data modeling capabilities and excellent strategy development. She has many years of practical experience in digital asset research and quantitative trading.
Core areas
Main focus: cryptocurrency quantitative trading and arbitrage strategies (BTC, ETH, contracts and DeFi derivatives)
Secondary focus: cross-chain asset allocation and risk control modeling (combining on-chain data analysis and asset portfolio hedging)
Technical expertise: on-chain monitoring system design and deployment, accurate identification of on-chain behavior and capital flow trends
Team experience: has mature quantitative investment research team management experience, is good at building a multi-strategy collaborative framework, and promotes strategy productization and real-time execution
Ken Fisher
Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO of thekolai.
He is a world-renowned investment advisor and financial writer, known for his profound attainments in investment management, asset allocation and market analysis.
His unique market views and the theory that “prices reflect all known information” have influenced the global investment community.
His investment style is known for global diversified asset allocation and quantitative analysis.
Bill Gross
Co-founder of thekolai
He also worked as a fund manager at Janus Capital Group. Bill Gross is known for his deep insights and outstanding performance in the fixed income market.
Rick Rieder
Co-founder of thekolai
He has profound knowledge in global macroeconomic analysis, interest rates and credit strategies.
He has been invited to interpret the market on CNBC, Bloomberg and other mainstream financial media many times.
He is known for his stable investment style and high attention to risk control.