Roger Ehrenberg, Managing Partner
IA Ventures

 

Roger Ehrenberg is currently Managing Partner of IA Ventures, an early-stage venture firm focused on managing and extracting value from “big data.” Roger is also founder of Kinetic Trading Strategies, LLC, a quantitative trading firm that develops proprietary, alpha-generating language models for top proprietary trading firms and quantitative hedge funds.

Prior to forming IA Ventures, Roger was an active angel investor pursing opportunities through IA Capital Partners, LLC, an early-stage investment firm focused on digital media and financial technology. Roger has made over 35 investments through IA Capital Partners including TheLadders.com, Buddy Media, Clickable, Magnetic, Invite Media, MyTrade (sold to thinkorswim, now TD Ameritrade), Stocktwits, TweetDeck and Wallstrip (sold to CBS Interactive).

Roger currently serves on the boards of Alphacet; Buddy Media; Magnetic; Global Bay Mobile Technologies; Selerity Financial; Stocktwits; Recorded Future; The Trade Desk and Metamarkets.

Earlier in his career, Roger served as President and CEO of DB Advisors, LLC, Deutsche Bank’s internal hedge fund trading platform where his 130-person team managed $6 billion in capital across multiple strategies with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Before DB Advisors, Roger was Global Co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Strategic Equity Transactions Group. In 2000, Roger’s team won Institutional Investor magazine’s “Derivatives Deal of the Year” award. As an Investment Banker and Managing Director at Citibank, Roger held a variety of roles in the Global Derivatives, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Structuring groups.

Roger holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Management from Columbia Business School and a BBA in Finance, Economics and Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. 

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