Kris Skrinak

Greater San Diego Area United States

Systems Architect at GoPro

Technology / Software / Internet

In 1983 with a B.S. Economics/Mathematics from King's College, Kris entered mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs. He later moved to the quantitative strategies group run by Fischer Black where he built one of the first fully electronic trading systems. This powerful system traded up to 12% of the volume on the New York stock exchange between 1983 and 1987. After the crash of 1987 he left Goldman to consultant with banks that sought to implement this technology including: Swiss Bank Corporation, Bank of America and Salomon Brothers. In 1993, while with Sun Microsystems he developed a love for entrepreneurial ventures. His first start-up was Capital Technologies. CapTech developed a...