Alex Koumpas

Alex Koumpas is a seasoned entrepreneur and technology leader. Mr. Koumpas has dedicated his career to advancing the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and financial technology through innovative product development and strategic leadership. In his current role at Co-Founder & CTO at NatGold Digital, Mr. Koumpas brings his extensive experience in developing scalable AI-driven solutions and strategic data management processes to the company’s innovative NatGold tokenization ecosystem.

Mr. Koumpas is also the Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Autopilot AI, launched in June 2023. At Autopilot AI, he spearheaded the development and rapid deployment of a scalable, LLM-based product. Under his leadership, the platform achieved a 75% conversion rate and a 96% retention rate within five months. His expertise in engineering platforms utilizing RLHF-enhanced LLMs to process and convert unstructured data into contextual actions has resulted in a solution that handles 5 million documents per day with over 90% accuracy. Additionally, Mr. Koumpas successfully secured funding from Genesis Ventures, a prestigious family office, and prominent angel investors, including a TechStars mentor and two wholesale industry leaders.

Before founding Autopilot AI, Mr. Koumpas served as the Senior Portfolio Manager and Quantitative Trading Lead at Eisler Capital from February 2022 to August 2023. In this role, he managed a crypto fund with $100 million in assets under management, developed and oversaw high-frequency, systematic, and market-making strategies, and implemented protective measures to safeguard funds. He also designed machine learning pipelines to train models using tick-level data, significantly enhancing the firm’s trading capabilities and risk management processes.

Prior to his tenure at Eisler Capital, Mr. Koumpas was a Quantitative Trader and Technical Team Lead at Blockchain.com from February 2020 to January 2022. There, he architected and led the implementation of a market-making system with a team of 32 engineers and analysts. His work included the design and execution of high-frequency trading strategies, which generated substantial profits and improved the firm’s overall risk management and liquidity aggregation capabilities.

Mr. Koumpas co-founded and served as the CTO of Crypton Digital Assets from March 2019 to February 2020, where he built an AI-driven automated trading platform for the cryptocurrency market. His leadership in forming and managing a team of AI engineers and researchers led to the development of innovative machine learning models and NLP algorithms to predict market movements. This venture garnered significant attention, being featured at prominent fintech and blockchain conferences.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Koumpas co-founded Compose (formerly Quanterium) and served as its Chief Product Officer (CPO) from September 2017 to March 2019. He led the design and development of a cloud-based high-performance settlement platform aimed at mainstream adoption of blockchain technology. The platform’s success in its beta phase attracted substantial funding and strategic partnerships, establishing Mr. Koumpas as a key figure in the blockchain space.

Mr. Koumpas began his professional journey as an Analyst in Prime Brokerage at J.P. Morgan & Chase and as a Technology Analyst in Electronic Trading at Credit Suisse, where he designed and implemented innovative applications to improve trader productivity and data visualization.

Mr. Koumpas holds a Master’s in Management from Imperial College Business School, where he was awarded First Class Honours and recognized for his entrepreneurial achievements. He also holds an MEng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London, where he earned distinctions in Mathematics, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing, and his thesis was showcased as an exemplary report.

Mr. Koumpas resides in London, where he is an active member of the tech and finance communities. He is passionate about leveraging technology to drive innovation and create value in the financial and technological sectors.