Olga Kane is an accomplished investment industry executive with extensive experience in alternative investments, hedge funds, equity research, trading, data-driven investment strategies, product development, capital raising, and launching new businesses. She is currently a Managing Director of Synthesis, a quant investment company focusing on equity statistical arbitrage. Synthesis team develops machine learning powered research framework to extract insights from a wide range of alternative data sets. In her role, Olga oversees trading execution, data sourcing strategy, strategic partnerships, and broker/vendor relationships.

Before co-founding Synthesis in 2019, she was a Director at QST Financial, an algorithmic trading group, overseeing business development, data sourcing, broker, and vendor relations. Previously, she launched an incubator platform for early-stage quantitative hedge funds at ITI Group, a global broker-dealer. Prior to that, Olga was head of operations and investor relations for an alternative investment firm Da Vinci Capital. She started her career at Renaissance Capital as a Vice president covering electronic trading execution services.

Olga is a graduate of Baruch College Zicklin School of Business and Harvard Business School. She holds a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation and FINRA series 65 license.

Olga is an established speaker, panelist, and guest lecturer covering fintech innovation, data-driven portfolio construction, AI and machine learning in finance. She was named among 25 most inspirational women in AI for the financial industry by Re:work.

Olga is a member of CAIA Association, CFA Society of New York, 100 Women in Finance, HBS Club of New York, HBS Angel Investors group.