Co-founder of Smarkets
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Co-founder / CEO at Smarkets
- Past
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- Analyst at UBS
- Founder at Descipher, Inc.
- Equities Trader at Great Point Capital
- Research Programmer at Northwestern University
- Exchange Student at Youth For Understanding
- Education
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- Northwestern University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Gambling & Casinos
- Websites
Jason Trost’s Experience
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Co-founder / CEO
Smarkets
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)
July 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)
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Analyst
UBS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UBS; Banking industry)
March 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 4 months)
○ Financial software developer for UBS Fund of Funds ($37 bil assets under management).
○ Ran statistical analysis of fund performance. Developed reports to monitor AUM, strategy allocation, benchmark correlation and fund capacity.
○ Designed software platform that processed hundreds of emails a day, one of the FoF's two main software packages. Allowed different business units quick access to pertinent documents. Responsible for project management, marketing, infrastructure monitoring. Created a proprietary Sybase database schema to persist document data.
○ Engaged and traveled to Zurich office for discussions to expand financial document software to their office. -
Founder
Descipher, Inc.
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
December 2001 — March 2005 (3 years 4 months)
○ Internet startup founded during university (www.descipher.com) that allowed consumers to self-diagnose lab test results and privately sold in 2007.
○ Created mathematical algorithm to aggregate medical information into a formula that can diagnose lab tests: disease prevalence, population densities, geographic distribution, race and sex of patient.
○ Generated revenue streams from online advertising and pay-per-use diagnostic software.
○ Cultivated high traffic with search engine optimization and repeat visitors. -
Equities Trader
Great Point Capital
(Financial Services industry)
July 2003 — May 2004 (11 months)
○ Proprietary equities trader responsible for my own book; traded on NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX exchanges.
○ Employed fade, swing, and momentum strategies. Responsible for trading decisions, equity research, risk management, trade execution. Utilized statistical regressions and Excel / VBA to model data.
○ Created volume and price volatility strategy to fade stock moves.
○ Demonstrated strong performance track record: Grossed $86k Q1 2004 with a book of $500k. Grossed $146k with a book of $100k - $500k over nine months (Q3 2003 Q1 2004). Top trader in peer group of twenty. -
Research Programmer
Northwestern University
(Computer & Network Security industry)
September 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 2 months)
○ Research assistant to a Computer Science professor Ken Forbus.
○ Developed software to aid computers to understand simple physical processes. Used natural language parsers as the main tool to extract information.
○ Implemented natural language algorithm to extract qualitative process information from middle school science texts. -
Exchange Student
Youth For Understanding
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 1998 — May 1999 (10 months)
Exchange student with a host family in Aschau am Inn, Germany.
Jason Trost’s Education
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Northwestern University
BA, Computer Science, 1999 — 2003
- Activities and Societies:
- WNUR dj
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