Evan Schulman

Evan Schulman is President and founder of Tykhe, LLC. Tykhe created, and received a patent for, Sales Certificates, a financial instrument which allows entities to raise capital by securitizing revenues. Evan's career in the asset management and financial technology industries spans 40 years, much of which is documented in the books "Super Traders" (Alan Rubenfeld, Irwin Books, 1992) and "How I became a Quant" (Richard Lindsey and Barry Schachter, John Wiley & Sons, 2007). Prior to Tykhe, Evan was Co-founder and Chairman of Upstream Technologies, a leading technology provider to portfolio managers, including those at some of the world's largest financial firms. Upstream was acquired by CheckFree Services Corporation (now Fiserv, NASDAQ: FISV) in 2007. Prior to Upstream, Evan co-founded Lattice Trading, an advanced Alternative Trading System integrating order-matching with order-routing and connecting to global computerized markets, including the New York Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Lattice was acquired by State Street Global Advisors in 1996. Evan has been referred to as one of the "fathers of electronic trading" and in 1975, as Director of Computer Research at Keystone Funds in Boston, he completed what is generally regarded as the first equity program trade. During the '80's, Evan led the effort to develop computerized investment and trading systems at Batterymarch Financial Management.