Morgan Slade CEO Exponential Technology
Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan 2025 Future of Finance & Ai Conference
Morgan Slade is the CEO of Exponential Technology Inc. (www.exponential-tech.ai), a research, data analytics, and data technology company specializing in state-of-the-art global macroeconomic prediction models, real-time multi-asset investor flow intelligence analytics, and agent-powered, last-mile, real-time data technology.
With over 25 years of experience in trading, systematic investing, and market-making, Morgan has held senior executive and portfolio management roles at Citadel, Wolverine, Allston Trading, Merrill Lynch, Millburn Corporation, Carlson Capital, and Penson Worldwide (IPO exit). A pioneer in machine learning and high-frequency trading, Morgan has built and scaled market-making, systematic futures, statistical arbitrage, and long-term quantamental strategies across all major asset classes. He holds BS and MS degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT and also studied f inance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Moreover, a recognized thought leader in the application of AI to investing and in the commercialization of data assets. Morgan began his career at Millburn Corporation, the world’s first large-scale systematic hedge fund, as a Senior Trader and Director of Research, where he traded all three time zones and developed medium frequency trading strategies for global futures, FX, and options using tick data. He then joined, and ultimately ran, the proprietary trading desk at Merrill Lynch where he developed and managed a multibillion-dollar stat arb risk book and principal risk-bidding business.
After 9/11, he became a Portfolio Manager at Carlson Capital, a Dallas-based fundamental relative value fund, where he developed and ran quantitative long/short fundamental strategies based on machine learning and novel accrual and earnings quality factors. Morgan then ran several dominant HFT market making businesses in global equities, FX, and futures at Penson Worldwide, Citadel Securities, Allston Trading, and Wolverine.
In 2016, he became head of global systematic trading for a proprietary trading f irm, where he hired and developed portfolio managers and investment teams and served as CEO of an alternative data and institutional research firm. In early 2024, Morgan founded Exponential Technology, a firm specializing in productizing novel datasets and leveraging AI to create institutional-grade signals, advanced analytics, and next-generation data warehouse technology for agentic automation of trading and research workflows.
Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan 2025 Future of Finance & Ai Conference
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