Ari Pine
Ari Pine is Co-Head of Digital Exotics at BlockFills, a tech and crypto trading solutions firm. In his role, he is involved in digital assets derivatives trading of futures, forwards, options, and structured products. Pine has worked in the financial markets for over 15 years, integrating technology and quantitative techniques to his trading. Prior to joining BlockFills, he was the Co-Founder of Digital Gamma, a proprietary trading group specializing in digital asset derivatives, where he led the firm's trading, research, and development efforts. Before that, he was the Managing Partner of Pine Research & Trading, a process-focused financial markets company focused on consulting to trading firms, option training and market research. He was also President of TradeCo Global and Principal of Global Gamma, LLC.
Ari Pine Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Head of Digital Exotics
Academic History
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B.S., Computer Engineering & Computational and Neural Science
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B.A., History
EARLY CAREER
Pine started his career trading fixed income at JP Morgan. He went on to make markets on equity and commodity options on the PCX, CBOE, and CME.
He traded at a long volatility hedge fund and later put together a quantitative trading strategy for futures.
He began working as a Global Options Trader at Prime International Trading, where he made markets in Comex and ETF gold Options.