As Chief Executive Officer of SPEQTRA, Tokuyou leverages his extensive experience in traditional finance to deliver comprehensive excellence across investment strategies, business initiatives and risk management. Since 2022, he has been collaborating with Shota on developing the systematic investment business for digital assets, blending traditional finance knowledge with advanced investment methodologies. Prior to founding SPEQTRA, he spent over 7 years at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, where he led institutional investor solutions across credit, equity, and fund derivatives, focusing on client-centric business initiatives and sophisticated risk management frameworks.

As Chief Investment Officer of SPEQTRA, Shota oversees the design and deployment of systematic investment strategies and leads the firm's quantitative research organization. Since 2022, he has been collaborating with Tokuyou to build SPEQTRA's systematic digital assets investment strategies. Previously, he spent over 4 years at Matsuo Institute, Inc., the commercial arm of University of Tokyo's leading AI research lab, where he guided a quantitative hedge fund project and delivered AI solutions for asset managers. Through fellowship programs at global technology companies including IBM Research and Amazon, he honed his expertise in statistical modeling and large-scale data analysis.