Team and advisors
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Executive Team Yang Tang, Chief Executive Officer Yang is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of QStarLabs. Yang is also the Co-Founder and CEO of Arch Indices, an investment manager utilizing machine-learning optimization for portfolio construction and management. Prior to Arch Indices, Yang spent over a decade in macro solutions, structuring and sales roles at Morgan Stanley, Citi, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Agricole CIB.
In his most recent role as Head of Solutions Sales, Americas, Yang built the solutions sales desk from scratch to one of the most productive and highest grossing in the organization. Yang has worked with banks, insurers, and asset managers globally on solutions across asset classes for asset liability, yield enhancement, capital, and tactical opportunities.
Yang holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BS in Economics from Purdue University.
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Carlos Zendejas, Chief Product Officer
Carlos is a Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of QStarLabs. Carlos is also the Co-Founder and CEO of DeepQ Digital, a crypto market making and trading firm. Prior to DeepQ, Carlos spent his career in electronic FX market making at both Bank of America and Deutsche Bank. Carlos has managed electronic trading platforms which were responsible for up to 10% of daily global Foreign Exchange spot. He has also developed deep counterparty relationships with many of the world's largest institutional trading houses.
At Bank of America, Carlos was the global head of alpha research and client optimization for the electronic FX market making business. Prior to that he was the head of Americas electronic FX trading at Deutsche Bank.
Carlos holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BS in Business Management from Brigham Young University.
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Matt Reid, Chief AI Researcher
Matt is a co-Founder and Chief AI Researcher at QStarLabs. Matt is also the co-Founder and COO of DeepQ Digital. Prior to DeepQ, Matt was the head of electronic US Rates trading at Deutsche Bank. He managed a trading platform which traded over $5 Billion in securities transactions a day and was a top 5 market maker by market share.
Before Deutsche Bank, Matt spent 4 years researching high energy particle physics at the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN.
Matt holds a Ph.D from University of Warwick and a MS from University of Nottingham in theoretical and mathematical physics.
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QStarLabs has a deep bench with 4 AI Researchers on staff and a dev team with engineering experience at hyperscalers. Our team is enhanced with a strong network of crypto-native advisors including Asgard Markets (led by Alex Kruger), Delphi Labs, and Oobit.
QStarLabs was 1 of 8 teams in the NEAR x Delphi Labs AI x crypto accelerator in Q4 2024.