Kevin Kane is a Team Head of Quant Research Strategies at a Quant Hedge Fund in operation for more than 20 years.

Previously Kevin served as the founder & CEO of Claro Automata LLC, a semantic analytics application technology and quantitative finance company. Kevin previously co-founded the quantitive investment manager, Jumpgate Technologies. Kevin currently advises two natural language processing and semantic analytics technology centered startups: including the well-known MIT student founded startup, Lean On Me. Kevin is both a semantic analytics strategy driven quantitative trader and a tech entrepreneur.
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Prior to starting and building technology companies, Kevin's experience ranges form emerging technology consulting and enterprise sales, econometric research and analysis in academia, and 6.9 years of United States Army service as a soldier and Non-Commissioned Officer in units ranging from the 101st Airborne Division to 2nd and 3rd Infantry Divisions between 1998 and 2005.
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Kevin possess a B.A. in Political Science, an M.A. in International Studies with a distracted concentration energy economics and econometrics. Kevin invests his free time writing on his website and blog www.claroveri.xyz about his research and views on cognitive science, neuroscience, sociology, VR technology applications, western and eastern philosophy, deep space propulsion research, risk management, and quantitative investing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Cheaper way to travel a lot

Interests

• music festivals
• cooking
• movies
• electronic music
• adventure travel
• travel
• house music
• sci-fi
• djing
• space exploration
• trading

Music, Movies, and Books

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Return Of The Jedi

Pitch Black

The Matrix Reloaded

National Treasure

Dead Poets Society

Die Hard 3

Star Wars 1

Saving Private Ryan

The King's Speech

Star Wars

Pacific Rim

Kill Bill

The Terminator

MoneyBall

Catch Me If You Can

Crash

The Great Gatsby

Looper

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

The Last Stand

Gremlins

There Will Be Blood

Blade

The Hobbit

A Beautiful Mind

Upside Down

Source Code

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Watchmen Movie

Zero Dark Thirty

Oblivion

Inception

In Time Movie

Argo

Skyfall (film)

Lincoln

District 9

Cloud Atlas

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in Seoul, South Korea, for 10 years.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea