My name is Charles Weitzer. I do recruiting for major quantitative hedge funds worldwide. I have a client, a startup quantitative hedge fund located in Northern California, that would like to hire a Chief Technology Officer as soon as possible. Their job description can be found below. * Chief Technology Officer Fast-growing science and technology driven company seeks a Chief Technology Officer. We apply statistical machine learning to develop automated trading systems. We are a growing group of exceptional software and infrastructure professionals and seek an experienced candidate to lead and grow the team. The CTO will manage the implementation of our next generation infrastructure, including production trading systems, software infrastructure for our research department, and our compute and storage hardware systems. The CTO will work directly with the Head of Research and the CEO to set the technical direction of the company. A strong candidate will be well-versed in state-of-the-art technology (particularly distributed systems and cluster computing), and will have a track record of building and leading elite technical teams and successfully delivering complex projects (especially in a startup environment). A background in finance is not required. We are a science-driven systematic trading firm, built on the principle that statistical machine learning provides the best solutions to the scientific problems we must solve. Our CEO is a CS PhD and founded a successful Internet startup, and our Head of Research/Chief Investment Officer is a Berkeley statistics professor; both have a background in finance. Our trading is entirely automated and based on cutting-edge machine learning techniques. We have a collegial, academic working environment, rely on open source software, and have built our own software stack. We have a track record of strong performance and have been raising money and growing fast. Willingness to take initiative, and a gritty determination to productize, are essential. Benefits and compensation are highly competitive. I look forward to speaking with you and anyone you might highly recommend about this opportunity. Thank you, Charles Weitzer CEO/Senior Recruiter Charles Weitzer and Associates, Inc. Global Financial Recruiting Services Charles@CharlesWeitzer.com Voice: USA (510) 558-9182