Michael Anderson
A former Wall Street investment-banking executive with more than two decades in global financial markets, Michael Anderson experienced the full evolution of programme trading, quantitative arbitrage and AI-assisted research across Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase. In 2012, he founded NorthStar AI Research Institute to integrate Wall Street quantitative models, machine learning and blockchain data science.
Education
University of Toronto
London School of Economics
Harvard Business School
Career
Worked on early-1990s programme-trading systems, researched quantitative models for foreign-exchange and interest-rate markets, and gained exposure to the earliest algorithmic-trading frameworks.
Led a team developing North American equity-arbitrage models and managed more than US$1.2 billion in institutional capital. After the dot-com bubble and the 2001 technology-stock crash, he began focusing on machine learning in finance.
Built early AI-assisted trading frameworks, researched market-sentiment analysis and applied natural-language processing to news forecasting. He began studying Bitcoin in 2009.
Founded NorthStar AI Research Institute to build a new generation of AI-powered investment decision systems integrating quantitative finance, machine learning, on-chain data analysis and global macro research.