Cormac Kinney

With innovations cited in over 4,000 U.S. Patents, Cormac Kinney has founded four startups acquired by public companies. He is a quantitative finance pioneer who invented heatmaps, designed more than 100 institutional trading systems, and perfected computational linguistics-based sentiment analysis, using it to manage $500 million in equities portfolios for Paul Tudor Jones and Millennium. As the founder of Diamond Standard, Cormac has solved the challenge of creating a standardized, and now regulator-approved, diamond commodity. Transacted on the blockchain, it is the first physical and digital asset, forming a decentralized reserve to asset-back any digital contract.