Mark Cordover

BIO

I am the CEO and founder of IT.com. I have had two passions in my career: financial markets and technology. I started a hedge fund before they were cool, doing algo trading before it was invented (that’s a wild exaggeration – I was just doing old fashioned arbitrage using software). By accident I helped fund the first Internet Service Provider. But I learned from the experience, and then financed the first company to do customer service on the Web, and also invested in the first company to see the demise of old fashioned client-server architecture. I am always too early which is a great vice, but eventually I get my turn. That turn is now machine learning grounded analysis of semi-structured data or text, applied to different spaces but essentially with one theme: we want to use new science to address old problems. Currently at IT.com, I am loving the power of what Wall Street discovered long ago. And we’re hiring quants and engineers that can make it work.