Founder | CIO & CEO

Mr. Smith is the CEO and CIO of Baus Capital. With over a decade of experience as a portfolio manager and researcher, Mr. Smith has demonstrated expertise in trading high-vol liquid assets, including digital assets since 2017. His leadership at Baus Capital is best characterized by an unwaivering commitment to strategic growth opportunities and performance-driven results.

He began his trading career at a young age, quickly honing his skills as a proprietary trader in U.S. equities and derivatives markets. His focus on microstructure research in small and micro-cap equities in emergent sectors is what naturally led him to the digital asset space. Prior to founding Baus Capital, Mr. Smith was a cryptocurrency trader at BlockTower Capital, a $1.7B AUM institutional crypto asset manager.

CTO

Mr. LeClerc is an accomplished leader with over 25 years of experience in technology and research, serving in various leadership roles. He was most recently the Chief Technology Officer at First Quadrant, a systematic macro hedge fund with $20B in AUM at its peak. Prior to his time at First Quadrant, Mr. LeClerc was on the statistical arbitrage and electronic market making desks at UBS Investment Bank.

Other past roles includes; Officer in The US Navy, Researcher, and Head of Research Technology at First Quadrant.

Mr. LeClerc holds a PhD in High Energy Particle Physics from UC Berkeley and a Masters in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago.

Head of Engineering

Mr. Tweed is a senior engineer with extensive experience in digital asset markets and low latency trading systems. His involvement in digital assets dates back to 2015, and at some point he accounted for ~2-3% of Deribit’s daily derivatives volume.

He formerly founded Pine Financial, a UK-based crypto trading firm focusing on ultra low-latency arbitrage trading. At Pine he was responsible for the buildout of their ultra low-latency single exchange and cross exchange market making technologies.

Head of Quantitative Research

Mr. Thompson is a veteran quant researcher and trader with extensive experience in cryptoasset markets. He most recently served at CMT Digital, a nine-figures aum crypto prop fund, where he held the positions of Head of Quantitative Research and Quantitative Researcher.

Prior to his time as Head of QR at CMT, Mr. Thompson was the CIO at Canonical Alpha Capital Management, a liquid hedge fund which focused on high-frequency trading and statistical arbitrage in cryptocurrency markets.

Quant Researcher

Mr. Liao most recently worked at Tower Research Capital as a Quantitative Research Apprentice, focused on digital assets pricing models. In Taiwan he was a quant research intern at Capital Securities Corp & CBTC Securities Ltd.

Mr. Liao holds a BBA in Industrial Management from NTUST and a Masters Degree in Financial Engineering from UIUC.

Senior Software Engineer

Mr. Dominguez has several years of experience in C++ engineering and low-latency systems. Previously, he worked as a backend engineer for a low-latency cryptocurrency trading firm.

He received his Masters Degree in Particle Physics and his PhD in High Energy Physics at UNAM, working in experimental detection, data analysis, phenomenology and thermodynamics.

Chief Operations Advisor

Daniel has almost two decades experience spanning strategy, banking, fintech and quant finance. He worked both at Bridgewater and AQR as portfolio specialist. He has helped grow three highly successful fintech startups and advised several others.

He started his career at McKinsey’s risk management practice and leverage finance at HSBC. He holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.