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Tom Geary, CFA
Founder and Managing Partner
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Tom Geary, CFA
Founder and Managing Partner
Tom Geary, CFA, is the Founder and Managing Partner of Caisel Cove Advisors, an investment management advisory firm that provides a wide range of services to traditional and crypto-focused asset managers. Prior to founding Caisel Cove Advisors in 2022, Tom was a Founding Member and Partner of AlphaMiner Capital, a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund based in London from 2019–22. From mid-2018 to mid-2019 Tom worked with senior management at ConsenSys, evaluating cryptocurrency investment strategies as well as evaluating external hedge fund managers who were employing various crypto and blockchain related investment strategies. Tom spent seven years as a Senior Member of the original business development team from 2010–17 for Citadel’s Surveyor Capital, a core fundamental equities multi-manager business. While at Surveyor Capital, Tom sourced, evaluated, and hired sector-focused investment teams, helping build out the New York, Boston, Dallas, Greenwich, and San Francisco offices and overseeing portfolio managers, investment teams, and portfolios. From 2004–10 Tom was an Associate Director of the Hedge Fund Due Diligence and Portfolio Management team at UBS’s Alternative Investments Group in New York, responsible for hedge fund manager sourcing, due diligence, capital allocation, portfolio construction, and risk assessment across twelve FoFs portfolios. In addition, Tom served as an infantryman in the United States Army National Guard from 1999–2005.
Tom holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a triple major in Finance, Investment and Banking; Economics; and International Business, and speaks English, French, and Spanish fluently. Tom received his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2010 and holds his series 7 and 63 licenses.
Lucas Gaylord
Consultant Partner – Blockchain Engineering and Security
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Lucas Gaylord
Consultant Partner – Blockchain Engineering and Security
Lucas Gaylord is the CEO and Founder of Eulith, a technology company that builds and manages cutting-edge trade execution infrastructure for on chain transaction security, risk management, and low latency, servicing a network of professional traders, investors, and service providers. Eulith’s clients include hedge funds and prop trading firms, investors and capital allocators, wallets, protocols, brokers, and other financial service providers. Previously Lucas was the Co-founder and CTO of Nomisma (ca. 2017-21), a digital assets derivatives exchange which built one of the largest ever Solidity/Yul codebases (14,000 LOC). Nomisma was the first digital asset company to be awarded a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) (securities exchange) conditional license under MiFID II, which approved a blockchain-based, trustless custody, and settlement protocol that eliminated the need for a custodial bank and a centralized clearing party (CCP). Nomisma was acquired by Amber Group in 2021.
Lucas holds a Bachelor in Business Administration degree in Global Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2020). Lucas speaks English, German, Arabic, and Mandarin.
Darius Przydzial, CFA, CQF
Consultant Partner – Blockchain Engineering and Risk Management
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Darius Przydzial, CFA, CQF
Consultant Partner – Blockchain Engineering and Risk Management
Darius, CFA, CQF, is a blockchain specialist with expertise in blockchain, L2 protocols, Perpetual Futures and Automated Market Makers (AMM) design, zkEVM, privacy, smart contract security, chain analytics, tokenomics, trading, yield farming, and mining for the past 10 years. He has held roles such as Blockchain DeFi Engineer, Global Macro and Digital Assets Investor, Chief Risk Officer, Quantitative Finance Professional, Derivatives and Systematic Strategies Investor and Technologies in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Darius is currently the CTO at Relative Finance, a VC backed team of DeFi natives where he’s building a perpetual futures product on zkEVM. Prior to that, Darius was core contributor to the Synthetix protocol, a decentralized derivatives product and liquidity layer for prominent DeFi protocols where he focused on the perpetual futures product, debt pool analytics, Kwenta.io, and Lyra.Finance. He has previously held roles as Entrepreneur in Residence at and Chief Risk Officer at ConsenSys, co-founding Fund Foundry and managing the build-out of software services designed exclusively for the digital asset management industry. Darius also advised products across ConsenSys’s venture production studio, including Token Foundry, Ventures, research, and business development. Prior to ConsenSys, Darius spent twelve years in the hedge fund industry, including Fortress Investment Group, Woodbine Capital Advisors, P72 Asset Management, and J.P. Morgan. His experience focused primarily on risk management and algorithmic trading strategies research. Before J.P. Morgan, Darius was an Advanced System Engineer at Lockheed Martin Corp. for six years, where he worked on top-secret development programs related to the B2 Stealth Bomber and Naval Radar Weapons Systems.
Darius holds a Master of Science degree and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and Darius holds a Master of Science degree in Networking from the University of Pennsylvania. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and the Certificate in Quantitative Finance designations.
Reva Bottles
Consultant Partner – Executive Search
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Reva Bottles
Consultant Partner – Executive Search
Reva Bottles has a distinguished and diverse career spanning executive search, government and politics, global marketing and advertising, healthcare and medical technology as well as media communications. Reva spent nine years at the prestigious Korn Ferry as a senior executive search professional sourcing, evaluating, and hiring C-Suite executives for Fortune 500 and private healthcare, pharmaceutical, and medical technology companies managing search and recruitment campaigns for large private equity firms, building out top-level leadership within their portfolio companies. From 2008-11 Reva managed global marketing and advertising campaigns for iconic brands like IBM and Dove at Ogilvy & Mather, an industry-leading, globally recognized marketing and advertising firm. Reva served as a communications aid for the 2008 Hilary campaign and spent three years with the Philadelphia Eagles on their media relations team.
Reva holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Corporate Communications graduating with honors from Elon University and studied Italian Language and Literature and International Business at the Universidad de Stranieri.
Jason Price
Consultant Partner – Blockchain Engineering and Regulatory Compliance
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Jason Price
Consultant Partner – Blockchain Engineering and Regulatory Compliance
Jason Price is a FinTech regulatory and financial forensics expert with fifteen years of experience delivering innovative technical solutions and navigating challenging political conflicts across the public and private sectors. Jason is currently the CCO and Head of Regulatory Strategy at VaultLink, a turn-key SaaS solution enabling banks to provide digital asset services in a regulatory-compliant manner. Prior to VaultLink, Jason held various executive-level roles as a COO of a cross-border payments FinTech, Regulatory and Compliance Director at Blockdaemon, and a Blockchain Architect and Analytics SME for the US Government and boutique advisory firms. With his diverse background in digital assets, financial intelligence, and risk management, Jason has supported a variety of Fortune 100 companies and US defense and national security agencies, including the Department of Justice (DoJ), related to fraud, money laundering, political conflicts, and other risk management activity.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Economics and a Minor in Accounting from Greensboro College.
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