Leigh Drogen is the General Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Starkiller Capital, an institutional investment management firm applying quantitative strategies to the digital asset space. Previously, he was the Founder and CEO of Estimize, the largest estimates financial platform in the world. Leigh came to the cryptocurrency world after his experience at a quantitative hedge fund and an early employee at StockTwits. He also ran Surfview Capital, a New York based quantitative investment management firm trading medium frequency momentum strategies.
Estimize provides the world's most accurate and representative institutional-grade earnings estimates data.
Estimize has 120,000+ analysts, resulting in coverage on over 3,000 stocks and 85 economic indicators each quarter.
The platform scores and ranks analysts, providing them with an easy way to store, benchmark, and measure their own accuracy.
Its consensus has proven more accurate than comparable sell side data sets over 70% of the time and by 15% on average.
EARLY CAREER
He was a Product Manager and Media Director for StockTwits, where he worked on product and business development.
At Geller Capital, he took on roles in quantitative, technical, and fundamental equity research, to trading, portfolio and risk management, and became a glorified secretary.
He is also the Founder of Learn 2 Quant Conference, a one-day seminar designed for both discretionary and fully systematic portfolio managers, analysts, and traders.
He was an Advisory Board Member at Slingshot Insights and Alta5.
RECOGNITION
2014 Forbes 30 Under 30
2014 Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies
2014 Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs
2014 Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative Companies
2013 Forbes 9 Hottest Startups
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Leigh is a regular contributor on CNBC and Bloomberg where he talks about markets and financial technology.
He appeared as a guest on Meb Faber Research and a speaker at CFA Society of New York.
He has also appeared or been quoted in Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, Business Insider, Fortune, TheStreet, WeWork, and Real Vision.