Jason Strimpel
Professional
- Data & Analytics Consultant - Amazon Web Services (Singapore) - Helping enterprise customers in tranformation journeys to the cloud
- Data Science Manager - Rio Tinto Commercial (Singapore) - Building and scaling our engineering team to build next generation technology products for one of the world's largest mining companies
- Venture Partner - tryb Group (Singapore) - Investor in early stage, high growth financial technology companies with particular focus on helping founders analyze and optimize growth-drivers, understanding product-market-sales fit dynamics and conducting technology due diligence
- CIO, APAC - Cofco Agri (Singapore) - Led developer and operations teams in Singapore, China, Vietnam, Australia and India to support global, enterprise applications across 10 functional areas. Operationalized strategic initiatives globally that were relevant to the APAC region. Managed executive, cross-functional project stakeholders
- Global Head of RAD - BP, Trading Functions, IST (London, UK) - Built and led software engineering teams in London, Chicago, Houston and Singapore delivering cross-functional risk and trading applications for BP's global derivatives trading business. Championed data analysis and visualization at BP (invited to speak at Tableau's EMEA sales kick off in 2015!)
- Regional Risk Specialist - BP (Chicago, USA) - Led global credit data integration, business analysis and management information reporting to executive stakeholders within BP's derivatives trading business and across BP Group
- Various - JPMorgan Chase (Chicago, USA) - Trading Operations Manager, Team Leader and Project Manager across middle office operations for JPMorgan's retail investment business
- Derivatives Trader - TradeGroup (Chicago, USA) - Traded derivatives, sometimes profitably. Always with a smile
Community
- Lambda School - Online technology learning (mentor)
- Asia Fintech Angels - The first Asian angel investor network dedicated to and specialized in fintech and financial innovation (member)
- F10 - Zurich based FinTech Incubator and Accelerator (mentor)
Investments/Initial coin offerings
- CarbonChain - The carbon accounting platform for commodity supply chains
- Filecoin - A decentralized storage network designed to store humanity's most important information
- Stacks - Enables people to build apps, smart contracts and digital assets integrated with Bitcoin's security, capital and network
- Props - platform for deploying and bootstrapping community tokens, allowing apps to increase user loyalty, financially align with users1 and add a new revenue stream
- hoolah - Empowering consumers to buy now, pay later, while spending responsibly (acquired by ShopBack)
- Loominus AI - The fastest way to be productive with machine learning
- YoRipe - Stress free cooking for busy peope
- Stuypend - Subscription based payments for small business
- Evaxion Biotech - Committed to the discovery and development of immunotherapies against cancer and infectious diseases
- BlueMeg - Digital corporate secretary and SaaS software
- MariaHealth - Easily shop and compare plans from the best health providers in the Philippines anytime, anywhere (through tryb)
- SpotKing - A community for action sports athletes and brands that want to sponsor them
Projects
- Trade Blotter - Tool for investors to organize and analyze their trading risk and performance (pre-launch)
- Finance Tools - Data downloader for multiple stocks in one spreadsheet (active)
- BespokeOptions Blog - Musings about pricing and trading options (defunct)
- Trading Days - API for exchange calendars across the world (defunct))
- TaaaS.io - API for technical analysis as a service (defunct)
- BespokeOptions - Professional options analytics (defunct)
Education
- Kauffman Fellows, Coursera, edX, Stanford Online, MIT Online, Berkeley Online, John Hopkins Online
- Illinois Institute of Technology - Master of Science in Finance, concentrations in financial engineering and programming
- Western Illinois University - Bachelor of Business, double major in economics and finance
Personal
- My phone is black and white, notifications are off. I stay in the present and use down time to think
- I self-taught myself programming in data analytics and web development and spend a lot (maybe too much?) time building
- Conferences, meetups and other community events are always on the calendar
- I'm active as an advisor and investor (get in touch)
- Trading options has been a strong interest (and money maker) for me for a very long time
- I'm an avid consumer of podcasts and I read voraciously about business, law, psychology, finance and history
- Living and working in London and Singapore has given me an amazing opportunity to travel, which I've become obsessed with
- Exercise is an important part of my life - some of my best ideas come at the end of a good workout!
- I have a weird obsession with Backgammon