Prior to founding NRD in 2021, Mr. Press worked as a senior analyst covering the technology sector, at Maverick Capital, a $12B Equity hedge fund. Earlier in his career, he worked at Morgan Stanley serving as an Associate in a variety of divisions including institutional equities, equity research and investment management/private equity. Mr. Press holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.

Mr. Gellos began his Wall Street career in 1982 at Standard Chartered, continuing at Bankers Trust, and UBS in roles as trader, chief dealer, and head of propriety trading. In 1997 he joined AIG Asset Management where he started the AIG Currency Opportunity Fund, which ranked as one of the top Commodity Trading Advisors “CTA” until he left to form Gellos Capital and Tradex Capital Markets in 1999. As president of TCM it became the largest Fund of Funds in the foreign exchange markets, allocating over two billion dollars per annum to over 50 managers from 1999- 2010. Gellos Capital was a CTA during those years managing up to one billion dollars of investors capital. In 2010 Gellos Capital became a partnership. It continues to manage its partners’ capital in the foreign exchange and futures markets.