Chandini Jain

Founder & CEO - Auquan

Chandini Jain is the CEO and founder of Auquan, a London based deeptech startup applying Machine Learning to solve complex financial problems. She has 10 years of global experience in finance with Deutsche Bank in Mumbai/New York and as a derivatives trader with Optiver in Chicago and Amsterdam. At Optiver, she traded volatility arbitrage strategies and was a leader in the firm's shift from discretionary to automated trading. Since 2017, she has been the CEO of Auquan, a fintech company solving financial prediction problems for hedge funds and asset managers by employing new and cutting edge ML and Deep Learning techniques. Auquan graduated from Techstars 2018, raised a seed round in 2019 and recent clients include two global asset managers with $300bn and $500bn assets under management. Chandini holds a BTech degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and an MSc in Mechanical Engineering & Computational Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.