Ophir Gottlieb
CEO & Co-founder
Ophir Gottlieb is the CEO & Co-founder of Capital Market Laboratories®. He has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Yahoo! Finance, CNNMoney, MarketWatch, and both Reuters and Factset on their respective professional terminals.
He is a former option market maker on the NYSE ARCA and CBOE exchange floors, and a former hedge fund manager and lead trader for Governance Investors.
Jason Hitchings
Chief Technology Officer
Jason Hitchings is the Chief Technology Officer at CML. He has diverse background in software engineering, product development, data visualizations as well as numerical analysis and real-time algorithmic option pricing.
He was the lead developer and product manager that led to one of the first ever SQL databases that updated asset prices in real-time; an accomplishment at the time that was considered by many in the industry to be impossible but is now common place in all of the exchanges and major banks in the world.
James Kaplan
Chairman & Co-Founder
Mr. Kaplan is a founding director of MarketWatch, and is widely recognized as one of the grandfather’s of modern portfolio theory.
For the past 20 years, James Kaplan’s research interests and entrepreneurial ventures have focused on innovations designed to improve the predictive and explanatory power of classical finance theories and portfolio management philosophies