Cormac Kinney

Cormac Kinney is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Standard, the producer of the only regulator-approved diamond commodity. He is a preeminent software entrepreneur who invented heatmaps and designed over 100 institutional trading systems for companies and hedge funds. A quantitative and statistical arbitrage portfolio manager, Kinney is also known for pioneering computational linguistics and perfecting sentiment analysis for securities trading. He has established at least 6 startups to date, with four acquired by public companies or investment funds.