Our Team
Morgan Slade
Chief Executive Officer
Morgan has over 20 years of experience as a portfolio manager, researcher, technologist, executive and entrepreneur in the financial services industry.
He is CEO of CloudQuant, the alternative data marketplace and SaaS research platform. CloudQuant is transforming the alternative data industry by providing a SaaS tech stack and educational research to accelerate the conversion of data to revenue. Prior to CloudQuant, he built quantitative trading businesses at some of the world’s largest Hedge Funds and Investment Banks. In the past, he served as a Portfolio Manager for both Citadel Investments and Carlson Capital and served as Global Head of Equity Trading for several of the largest high-frequency trading firms and was head of statistical arbitrage at Merrill Lynch. Morgan is a recognized expert in Prediction, Machine Learning, High-Frequency Trading, Autonomous Market Making and is interested in the application of AI to systematic trading. Morgan earned a BS and MS in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT.
His full profile can be found on LinkedIn
Tayloe Draughon
Vice President of Operations & Product Management
Tayloe has over 25 years of experience in product and technology management. He is Senior Product Manager at CloudQuant where he is responsible for the marketing and management of products through their full life-cycle.
Tayloe has spent much of his career in the financial and regulatory technology space with a focus on bringing new capabilities to the market and publishing product information. With an emphasis on communication and operational efficiency, he ensures a smooth client on-boarding experience. Before joining CloudQuant, Tayloe was the Director of Product Design at Neurensic as well as Director of Product Delivery for Futures at Societe Generale CIB-Newedge. He held similar positions at Cargill Investor Services and Capital Markets Consulting, in which he was also a co-founder. Tayloe is an assistant scoutmaster for his local scout troop and is a former FIA Technology Board member and a former co-chairman of the FIX Protocol Global Derivatives Committee. He graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington with a BS in Decision Science.
His full profile can be found on LinkedIn
John Muehlhausen
Vice President of Engineering
The Internal Team
Our full-time Internal Team is made up of Portfolio Managers, Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and technologists who work together to provide data showcasing and technology to the professional money manager.
Wei “Kevin” Zhou
Quantitative Analyst & Strategy Research
Logan Hensley
Data Engineer
Paul Tunney
Customer Success
Alex North-Keys
Software Engineer
