Liliana Reasor

Fintech (Digital Assets & WealthTech) Entrepreneur

Bio

Liliana Reasor is a Fintech (Digital Assets & WealthTech) entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in FinTech and investment banking. She is the founder and CEO of SupraFin, the smart WealthTech platform for digital assets (e.g., cryptocurrencies) that leverages proprietary investment / risk models for digital assets. She is considered a FinTech / Digital Assets thought leader. In the last two years, she has been a speaker in more than 30 FinTech, and digital assets events globally. Many years, she has been selected one of the Top 100 Global FinTech Women Influencers and Leaders by Innovate Finance.

When did you first become interested in quantitative finance? I first became interested in quantitative finance when I learned about how derivatives were a growing area in finance and I wanted to transition into the derivatives industry. Please share a little bit about your background and what led you to MSCF. I am the founder of SupraFin, a smart wealthtech platform for cryptocurrencies. Prior to that I worked for 20 years in portfolio and risk analytics, complex products trading, investments, and mergers & acquisitions at tier-one financial institutions such as JP Morgan, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, and Moody's Analytics. I decided to get a MSCF because I was working in the mergers & acquisitions industry, but I wanted to transition into a more quantitative area of finance such as derivatives trading. What do you enjoy most about your career? As a FinTech entrepreneur, I enjoy making my vision become a reality, because my vision is about empowering people with technology so that they can invest like savvy professionals. I also enjoy having to wear many hats, the fast pace environment, and working in the most cutting edge part of fintech (wealthtech and cryptocurrencies). In what ways do you see your role/job changing in both the short-term and long-term? As my company growths and hires more people, then my role as CEO will evolve from currently focusing on many things to focusing mainly on company strategy and delegating the rest to key new company hires. What are the top skills that are required to be successful in this field? I believe the top skills required to be successful in quantitative finance are programming, mathematics, statistics, and finance. How did the MSCF program prepare you for this career? The MSCF program provides you with all of the core skills required to be successful in quantitative finance such as programming, mathematics, statistics, and finance. In addition, the MSCF program has a great network of companies that recruit from the MSCF program and a vast network of alumni that one can access for career networking purposes. Also, CMU entrepreneurs can leverage the CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship group, which is a global group for CMU entrepreneurs, supported by CMU's Swartz Centre for Entrepreneurship. What advice do you have for women pursuing a career in Quantitative Finance? Focus on growing your network of connections in the quantitative finance industry and in the finance industry overall. This is quite important to be able to get the right job opportunities. Make sure you are passionate about your job because there is no point on working every day on something you don’t love. Be open to new opportunities because technology will continue to transform all areas of finance.