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Who: Boruch Dvinsky, founder & CEO at Elaris Technologies and Managing Partner at Concentus Partners
What: An experienced executive in the financial technology and quantitative hedge fund industries, Boruch now runs two hedge funds to manage his clients’ money and oversees Israel-based Elaris Technologies, an R&D employer of the technical team that creates the algorithms and manages all the hedge funds’ technology.
Where: Born in Houston, Texas, Boruch’s family moved to Hanover, New Hampshire, when he was just one year old. As a high school student, he took math, computer science, and engineering courses at the local Dartmouth College, and then went on to get a BS in math and computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master’s in financial mathematics from the University of Chicago. In 2007 he moved to New York to begin his career on Wall Street, but soon after found himself on the way to Jerusalem to learn in yeshivah. He now lives in Ramat Beit Shemesh with his wife and four children.
Why: Boruch inspires me in so many ways. First, his genuine humility (you can be friends with him for years without knowing his impressive bio), diligence in Torah learning (daily Gemara and halachah sedorim), and constant simchas hachayim (he’s always smiling) are things that I’ve admired for the years I’ve known him. Second is his personal story: succeeding on Wall Street, and then seeing the blessing of being fired from his job during the financial crisis, as it actually launched his growth in Torah. And third, he just spearheaded an investment vehicle to help Jewish businesses get through coronavirus. So now we can all be inspired!
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