About

A Quantitative Investment Firm for Digital Assets


Cambrian is an SEC registered investment manager applying a data and software-driven approach. From 2018, our goal is to earn exceptional, uncorrelated absolute returns from exposure to digital assets while limiting downside risks. Our approach is honed on a proprietary data store of over 100 billion market data points and uses automated trade execution algorithms to manage risk 24x7.

Our Team

Cambrian's team is comprised of portfolio and investment management professionals with strong fiduciary experience and a research and development team with extensive scientific and technical experience.

Chloe Larkin

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Chloe received her Master of Science in Computer Science from Northeastern University following her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Yale University. Chloe lives in New Haven, CT where she enjoys hiking and quilting in her spare time.

Daniel Tyreus, PhD

HEAD OF ENGINEERING

Daniel was a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia (B.S. in Chemical Engineering) who went on to do graduate work in computational modeling of biophysical systems at UC Berkeley (PhD in Bioengineering). Over the following 20 years he has led engineering teams at multiple venture-backed startups and developed a wide technical background including data engineering at scale, natural language processing, and n-tier systems architecture. Daniel lives in Marin County with his spouse, two children, and dog where he relishes the outdoors and competitive tennis.

Jay Posner

CO-CIO

Jay has 16 years of portfolio management experience, with 10 years at two of the world’s most successful hedge funds. Before leaving to manage his own capital, Jay created and managed a successful ~$1 billion systematic, model-driven, market-neutral portfolio at Millennium Management. Prior to joining Millennium, Jay headed the first real estate equities strategy at Zimmer Lucas Partners. Jay holds a B.A. in Economics, with honors, from Columbia University and is a CFA Charterholder. Jay lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his spouse and two children, frequently enjoys hiking the local trails with his family and (infrequently) enjoys exploring the local golf courses.

Joe Duldulao, CPA

VP OF FINANCE & CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER

Joe has over 15 years of accounting and operations experience in the alternative investment industry. He began his career at Rothstein Kass (acquired by KPMG), and has since held roles at an outsourced CFO firm and as an Executive Director in fund administration. Joe holds a B.A. in Business Economics with Accounting Emphasis from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He lives in the small one-stoplight town of Meadow Vista with his spouse, two children, and dog. In his spare time, Joe enjoys spending time with his family outdoors in the Sierra Foothills.

Kevin Ferguson

Staff Software Engineer

Kevin has over 20 years experience in distributed systems and data science at companies including Honor, Google, and Meebo. He graduated from Virginia Tech with degrees in mathematics and computer science. He lives in San Francisco with his family. In his spare time, he's a musician, hardware hacker, and Go enthusiast.

Kylee McCalley

Manager of Investor Relations

Kylee holds a B.A. in English Literature and Composition from Texas A&M University, with a background in the formulation and implementation of developmental systems for a streamlined and bespoke client experience. She began her career in the investment sector at a cryptocurrency hedge fund, working in operations and investor relations before moving on to a leadership position at a digital subscription software startup. Kylee lives in Austin, TX and enjoys spending her spare time strength training, playing volleyball, and being generally ignored by her cat.

Martin Green

CO-CIO

Martin has 25 years of technology sector experience, including seven years of long/short portfolio management experience as a tech equities investor. He began his career as a member of the tech banking group at Morgan Stanley and was a senior executive of CNET Networks (acquired by CBS for $1.8B) and Meebo (acquired by Google for $100M). Martin holds a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honors) from Queen’s University, Canada. Martin lives in Marin County with his spouse, two children, and two dogs and enjoys trail running in his spare time.

Tony Fenner-Leitão

PRESIDENT

Tony has over 30 years of financial sector experience, including eight years as a senior member of globally recognized systematic investment firms. He began his career in investment banking in London and New York for UBS and Goldman Sachs, leaving to be CFO of a tech company in Lisbon, Portugal. He was CEO of Winton Capital (one of the largest systematic hedge funds) in London, and Head of Marketing and Investor Relations at Passport Capital. Mr. Fenner-Leitao holds an MBA (with Honors) from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and a B.A. from Durham University. Tony lives in San Francisco with his spouse and three boys. When he has spare time, Tony’s major focus is completing a second B.A. degree in History.

Cambrian Investors

Cambrian Asset Management’s investors include founders or principals from notable
quantitative, hedge fund, venture capital, and technology firms.

Howard Morgan

Co-founder, First Round Capital; Co-founder RenaissanceTechnologies

Bill Trenchard

Partner, First Round Capital

Doug Dillard

former Managing Partner, Standard Pacific Capital

Kevin Ryan

Co-founder, MongoDB; Co-founder, Business Insider; Co-founder, Gilt Groupe

Gautham Radhakrishnan

former Principal, Warburg Pincus

Dennis Phelps

General Partner, IVP

Charles Songhurst

former Head of Strategy, Microsoft

Mike Krieger

Co-founder, Instagram

Adam Jackson

Co-founder, Braintrust; Co-founder Cambrian Asset Management

Jason Huemer

former President, Visium; former MD, SAC Capital

Richard Gorelick

former Head of Market Structure, DRW; former CEO, RGM Advisors

Natalie Fair

former Head of Finance, Pinterest

Tano Capital

Family office of the founding family of Franklin Templeton Investments

John Coffeng

Former Asia Head of Equity Derivatives Trading, UBS

Guillaume Amblard

former Global Head of Fixed Income Trading & Quant Research, BNP Paribas

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