Leadership
Katy Hinton
Co-Founder & Principal, Revenue Operations
Max Kendrick
Co-Founder & Principal, Strategy
Mariano Zeron
Co-Founder & Principal, Data and Analytics
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Katy Hinton excels in driving growth and strategic expansion in diverse markets. At NJOY, a vaping company, she was instrumental to launching four new international markets and led retail and distribution operations in ex-U.S. markets through the company’s acquisition in 2023. In her earlier tenure at emerging markets-focused private equity fund Frontier Resource Group, she helped portfolio companies unlock value by solving complex operational challenges. A former equity quant for Lehman Brothers and Nomura Securities, Hinton’s experience is further supported by service in the U.S. diplomatic corps, where she managed multidisciplinary and cross-agency initiatives as Staff Aide to the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria.
Hinton is an alumna of the University of Virginia with bachelor’s degrees in Math and Physics, and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, where she received the Merton H. Miller Distinguished Fellowship and co-founded and coached the Booth Boxing Club.
Max Kendrick, a technologist and serial social innovator, has spent nearly two decades working across human security, operations, product, and technology. As founding CEO of Fairchain, Kendrick leveraged cutting-edge technology to create opportunity and tackle socioeconomic disparities in a legacy market. Prior to Fairchain, Kendrick spent a decade in the U.S. Foreign Service, with assignments across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and as a negotiator on the UN Security Council. During his time in government, Kendrick was the driving force between a series of cross-disciplinary initiatives, partnerships, and innovations in areas as diverse as counter-terrorism programming, management streamlining, intelligence fusion, and advancing U.S. leadership on artificial intelligence safety.
Kendrick holds degrees from the University of St Andrews, the Cambridge University, and Stanford's Graduate School of Business. As a Sloan Fellow at Stanford, Kendrick hosted an FM radio hour on ethics and decision-making in policy and tech with guests including H.R. McMaster, Brett McGurk, and former UK Chancellor George Osborne. Kendrick is a recipient of multiple Department of State awards and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His work has been profiled in major publications including The New York Times, Axios, and CNN.
Mariano Zeron is an expert in analytics, research and development (R&D), and financial technology. As Head of Analytics at Cognext, he has led development of innovative tools for Cognext’s cognitive platforms, delivering transparent, explainable, scaleable, and cost-effective analytical processes for financial institutions. His prior role as Head of R&D at MoCaX Intelligence saw him innovate in algorithm design aimed at reducing the computational cost of risk calculations, while at an earlier position as a quant at hedge fund startup Areski Capital he developed machine learning techniques to uncover patterns for trading signals.
Zeron's groundbreaking research has been published in prestigious journals like Risk and Wilmott, in addition to his co-authored book, 'Machine Learning for Risk Calculations: A Practitioner’s View.’ published by Wiley. In addition to his academic contributions to the field, Zeron’s efforts have resulted in numerous patents and software applications. Zeron holds an undergraduate degree from the National University of Mexico, along with master’s and PhD degrees in Pure Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, where his thesis on infinite group theory led to the publication of several papers.
