
Dr. James Litsios
Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse
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Berufserfahrung von James Litsios
- Bis heute 6 Jahre, seit Aug. 2019
Advisor/Leadership in Software/Finance/Technology/Innovation
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James is a thought leader with a proven track-record of developing first of a kind products, building highly driven and skilled teams from scratch, and merging existing teams. He led the development and invention of the digital contract of rights and obligations as Co-Founder, Product Owner and CTO of Elevence Digital Finance (a BearingPoint Ventures seed-funding), and then as Head of Development Switzerland at Digital Asset (see daml.com). James helps organizations be innovative and agile.
- 2 Jahre und 6 Monate, März 2017 - Aug. 2019
Head of Research
Digital Asset (Switzerland) GmbH
- IP for language and semantic oriented blockchains and databases (https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2019082142A1/). - Analysis and strategy.
- 2 Jahre und 8 Monate, Dez. 2016 - Juli 2019
Managing Director
Digital Asset (Switzerland) GmbH
Responsible for the Zurich office of Digital Asset
- 11 Monate, Apr. 2016 - Feb. 2017
Head of Development, Switzerland
Digital Asset (Switzerland) GmbH
- Led integration of the Elevence team, operations, process, culture, architecture and IP into Digital Asset.
- 9 Monate, Juli 2015 - März 2016
Co-Founder, Product Owner, CTO
Elevence Digital Finance GmbH
Developed a one of a kind "smart contract" language to digitize multi-party agreements and automate transactions with precision and security. // Hired and led a team of ten (including seven PhD), to demonstrate business processes and financial workflows on multi-party privacy preserving blockchain execution. // Delivered client demos in less than six months. Acquired in less than nine months. (See daml.com for details of the smart contract language, extended and open sourced by DA).
Consultancy in financial services (e.g. at Swisscard)
- 2 Jahre und 2 Monate, Apr. 2011 - Mai 2013
Tech Lead & Architecture
SIX Financial through IT Di-Visions
Led architecture and agile process to deliver a high volume market data processing ticker plant engine and reliable global data distribution.
Led the development a “market taking” automated trading system (actant:exstream), complementing the company's market making product.
Led quant and architecture development; Tied technology needs with product strategy. Developments: multi-core reactive system, non-blocking queues, automatic differentiation, multi-grid interpolations, auto-fitting SABR volatility, GPU support, reactive algorithmic trading DSL.
Led software development (~30 developers in CH&UK). Developed and maintained quoting on twelve derivative exchanges. Adopted Scrum.
Co-wrote and led the development of the AQTOR derivative market making system. Wrote the underlying C++ framework, threading model, network protocols, pricing and risk models, LIFFE connectivity, and co-wrote the connectivity to EUREX.
- 1 Jahr und 6 Monate, März 1995 - Aug. 1996
Director, Device and Circuit Simulation
ISE - Integrated Systems Engineering (currently Synopsis)
I joined one of the very first spin-off companies of the ETH to lead development of the device simulation team. The resulting product, Dessis (now Sentaurus Device), was an immediate commercial success and remains a market leader in TCAD device simulation 20 years later.
- 3 Jahre und 2 Monate, Jan. 1992 - Feb. 1995
Research Assistant
Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich
Co-developed Dessis as part of my thesis, a tool to simulate devices such as transistors, in order to design and test them before actually building them.
Led development of the first layout tool for analog circuits.
See above.
Ausbildung von James Litsios
- 1991 - 1996
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
ETHZ - Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Programming, math, simulation, and supercomputers: Everything that I liked!
- 1982 - 1987
Computer Science, Math
EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 1977 - 1982
Electrical Engineering
EIG - Ecole d'Ingénieurs, Geneva, Switzerland
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Französisch
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