Scott has more than 20 years of experience running systematic trading businesses. He is one of the first market makers in the crypto-asset industry, starting to make markets in crypto in 2014. Prior to co-founding JST, he co-founded and was the Managing Partner of Tachyon Capital Management, a quantitative hedge fund.
Previously, Scott was a Managing Director at Bank of America, overseeing the firm’s electronic Foreign Exchange trading business. Prior to this, he worked as an attorney with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and worked for several years as a prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Scott holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a J.D. from the University of Michigan.