Greene Street Talks

Met Kinak is the Global Head of Equity Trading at T. Rowe Price and one of the industry's most influential voices on market structure. In Part 1 of this conversation, Jesse and Met discuss his upbringing, formative influences, and the early stages of his career, from portfolio modeling to electronic trading, against the backdrop of a market undergoing its own transformation toward automation, algorithms, and electronic execution.

On this episode, Jesse sits down with Teddy Fusaro, President of Bitwise Asset Management, to discuss his career in ETFs, crypto asset management, and why relationship capital still matters in an increasingly electronic and digital world. The conversation explores Teddy’s transition from Operations into ETF portfolio management, what it was like navigating the rise and scrutiny of leveraged ETFs following the Global Financial Crisis, and how he helped scale Bitwise from an early-stage crypto startup into one of the largest crypto ETF issuers in the market today. Jesse and Teddy also dive into startup leadership, Bitcoin ETF competition, tokenization, market structure, and where traditional finance still gets things right.

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Allison Bishop is the President and co-founder of Proof Trading, a startup agency broker-dealer for US equities. In this episode, Jesse and Allison explore the benefits of a cross-disciplinary background, perseverance through adversity, cryptography’s role in communication and privacy, first-principles entrepreneurship, portfolio trading, new approaches to market design, and the Doppler effect in poetry.

Giuseppe Nuti is the head of the Electronic Trading Research Department at UBS Global Markets, one of the premier equities trading houses and providers of electronic execution services to global asset managers, investors and traders. In this episode, Jesse and Giuseppe discuss machine learning and quantum applications to algorithmic trading across capital markets, different market structures and how they tick, and Giuseppe's own career as a researcher, market maker, professor, manager and PhD student.

Peder Viervoll is the Head of Quantitative Trading at Norges Bank Investment Management, the largest single owner of equities in the world and the sovereign wealth fund of Norway. In this episode, Jesse and Peder dive deeper into trading, execution, automation and AI at Norges; how Norges sponsors innovation in execution, their partnership with brokers, and how positive results around innovation are reinforced and socialized. They also discuss Peder’s take on corporate culture as well as market structure evolution more broadly.