Arcadia’s team is a rational investor in an increasingly irrational market. We are experienced investors, managers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and innovators.
Our innovative financial technology and proprietary algorithms enable Arcadia to employ a disciplined, patient, and thoughtful investment strategy across all market conditions. We have the highest standards for building unique and insightful technology and implementing that intellectual property to build successful businesses. We are experienced in developing unique solutions and effective investment strategies.
Along with Chairman and CEO Nicholas Mitsakos, Arcadia’s senior team comprises Rocky Phagura and Kelly Lyons, each with extensive experience in technological and algorithmic development.
Nicholas Mitsakos
Nicholas Mitsakos is an investor, entrepreneur, author, and lecturer. As CEO of Arcadia, he manages Arcadia’s proprietary algorithmic investment fund. He has also written six books on investment principles and strategies, technological innovation, and cross-disciplinary thinking. His books include Investment Principles: Strategies for an Irrational World, Transformation and Investing: Disruption, Opportunity, and Absurdity, The Ten-Year Horizon: Irrationality and Transformation, Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets: Terror and Opportunity, Artificial Intelligence: The Sharpened Rock, and What? So What? Now What? Uncertainty, Transformation, and Upheaval. He has also published research here under Writing and Podcasts and lectures at several world-leading institutions.
Nicholas holds advanced degrees from the Harvard Business School (MBA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (in Computer Science and Advanced Technologies), and the Harvard Kennedy School (in Global Leadership and Public Policy). He also has a B.S. from the University of Southern California in Biology and Computer Science.
Rocky Phagura
Rocky Phagura, our Chief Technology Officer and senior software developer, has over 20 years of experience in software and hardware development at world-renowned technology companies, including Intel, Meta, and Amazon. He has been a pioneer in the development of proprietary algorithms and has extensive experience writing trading algorithms for futures, equities, and crypto markets. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Engineering and a Master of Business Administration.
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Kelly Lyons, our Chief Operating Officer, Senior Trader, and senior software developer, has over 15 years of experience in developing Algorithmic and Automated Trading Systems. His systems experience applies to equities, bonds, derivatives, futures, and cryptocurrency markets. He is the lead executive responsible for algorithmic development. Kelly has a BS in Economics.