John received a bachelor’s degree in architecture at Cornell University, Ithaca NY.  Over the past 20 years he has worked for internationally renowned architecture firm, Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Partners in New York City, and has overseen design and construction projects ranging from 10-500M. Outside of his full-time job in the field of architecture, John began exploring mechanical equity trading strategies as an alternative to traditional investing approaches and from 2008-2012 he ran a popular, low-beta, fully automated equity trading system on the independent trading verification platform, Collective2.

HARSHA HAKKAL

Harsha received his bachelor’s and master‘s degrees in chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.  Harsha worked for nearly fifteen years as a chip design engineer for ON Semiconductor.  During this time, he developed leading edge chips for telecom, industrial and commercial applications. For the last 12 years, Harsha has been a staff applications engineer for Cadence in the field of Electronic Design Automation.  His primary focus has been to help clients implement new methodologies to improve chip design productivity.  Harsha has worked closely with John to develop the ideas and analytical tools behind Pimmit Capital since 2011.