Edward Woodford
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CEO & Founder
United States
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Jobs
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CEO & FounderzerohashSep 2017 - Current (9 years 1 month)- Co-Founder & CEOSeed CXJul 2015 - Sep 2017 (2 years 3 months)Acquired by Dough, Inc (tastytrade, Inc.) in August 2017.
Seed CX's mission was to create the infrastructure for emerging markets. Affiliates included a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission licensed Swap Execution Facility (SEF) & an NFA Introducing Broker. - Commercial DirectorMIT Robotics ClubNov 2014 - Jun 2015 (8 months)
- European Fund Summer AnalystLansdowne PartnersSep 2013
- HCo-Founder and CEOHow AppMay 2013 - Aug 2015 (2 years 4 months)European based Fintech. Designed and developed www.mymoneyguru.co.uk. The site offers a personalized comparison of 200 current (or checking) accounts from over 35 providers.
- Economics Research AssistantUniversity of WarwickNov 2012 - Jan 2013 (3 months)Responsible for data coding, data entry and preliminary data analysis for a doctoral research project partially funded by The Royal Institute of Economics.
- Summer Research AnalystMuddy Waters ResearchSep 2012Conducted financial analysis on companies, comparing reported figures with comparable firms utilizing multiples analysis and in-house models to assess financial misreporting.
- Summer Research AssociateReprieve UKJul 2011 - Sep 2011 (3 months)Worked as a researcher detailing rendition flights.
Education
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- Master's degree, FinanceMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyJan 2014 - Jan 2015 (1 year 1 month)• Awarded the Dean's MFin Fellowship, an academic scholarship.
• Member of the five-person Sloan Speaker Series Committee working in collaboration with faculty and business leaders. Speakers personally secured include Carson Block and Gen (Ret) Stanley McChrystal. Both speakers waived their honorariums. Responsible for all logistics, opening and closing remarks and liaising with national and local media.
• Founding member of the MIT Sloan Fin Tech club, organising treks to New York, a speaker series and mentoring and networking events. - Cross-registrant from MIT, Inside Government: Topics in Economic, Regulatory, and Legal PolicyHarvard UniversityJan 2014Course taken for academic credit, taught at the Harvard Law School (HLS) and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) by Professors Lawrence Summers and Professor Cass Sunstein.
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A, Politics, Philosophy, EconomicsUniversity of WarwickJan 2011 - Jan 2014 (3 years 1 month)
- Westcliff High School for BoysWestcliff High School for BoysJan 2004 - Jan 2011 (7 years 1 month)
Projects (professional or personal)
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- FFinancial Regulation of the legally grey (Project sponsor: HKS and HLS)Jan 2015 - Current (11 years 9 months)Supervisor: Professor Larry Summers (Harvard Kennedy School)
- AAgricultural dynamics in Afghanistan and the Taliban insurgencyOct 2014 - Aug 2015 (11 months)Inspiration for this project came from General McChrystal (Ret), who has argued that we cannot understand the Taliban insurgency without understanding the complex agricultural dynamics of the Af-Pak region. We sought to better understand the way opium is used to finance the insurgency. The project was supervised by Professor Joseph Doyle, with collaboration from a number of international agencies. Publication forthcoming.
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Awards
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- I2013 Trench Gascoigne Essay PrizeIssued by Royal United Services Institute
- IDelegateIssued by LSE Alternative Investment Conference AICSelected from more than 6,000 applications from students of more than 200 universities and 123 nationalities for the 360 places at the 2014 Conference.