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Jon spent nearly 40 years in the industry as a systematic fixed income investor with a long history of developing and implementing game changing technology. Though Jon is well known for building and managing fixed income trading for Susquehanna International Group (SIG), he has a long list of accomplishments, including founding the hedge fund Duration Capital, and being the lead manager on the Navigator Tactical Fixed Income Fund, where he won several awards for Best Alternative Credit Focus Fund. 

Prior to starting ficc.ai, Gil spent six years at Microsoft AI and in the Amazon core machine learning team, where he drove initiatives to apply state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques to real-world applications with several hundred million users. Earlier, Gil founded Amobee, the world’s first mobile advertising company, sold to Sing-Tel for $324mm. He started his career as a software engineer and has an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

With over 35 years of experience in municipal fixed income SMA and mutual fund management, electronic trading, and fintech, Stephen Winterstein has held numerous roles. These include serving as the Head of Municipal Fixed Income at MarketAxess and the Managing Director, Head of Municipal Fixed Income Strategy & Research at Wilmington Trust.

Myles Schoonover, Founding Principal - Product ManagerPrior to joining ficc.ai, Myles was a professor at Lee University. Previously Myles had been a researcher at the Université de Lorraine (Metz, France) as well as at Oxford University (Oriel College). Myles will defend his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) in 2025, and holds an M.A. from Yale University.

Prior to joining ficc.ai, Mitas was a researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle, working on machine learning methods for sequential decision making and decision-dependent optimization. Mitas holds a M.S. from the University of Washington. Immediately after earning his B.S. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, Mitas was appointed as a lecturer there.

Jesse came to ficc.ai from Oberlin College (Ohio) where he was a professor teaching courses on technology in East Asia. He has also taught at Smith College (Massachusetts) and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. from Peking University (China) and a B.A. from Wesleyan University (Connecticut). Jesse has been a Fulbright Scholar of the US Department of State.