Meet Our Team

Ricki Heicklen

Ricki started this bootcamp to fulfill her lifelong dream of designing games and telling people what to do. In the past, she's worked in quant trading, electoral forecasting, teaching, writing, software development, data science, and briefly, construction.

Ross Rheingans-Yoo

Ross left his job at a well-regarded trading firm in 2022 to work at a new philanthropic foundation funded by crypto money, where he learned that the worst part about not working in trading is not getting to teach early-career traders. Fortunately, the free market seems to have devised a solution to that problem.

David Holt

David is a self-taught trader at a firm that you have never heard of (and would prefer that it stay that way, no offense to you). He has an order of magnitude more Twitter followers than the rest of Arbor's staff combined.

Ari Shalunov

Ari is chief of staff to Ricki, and would like to play Set with you.

Yoav Tzfati

Yoav is a coding nerd that stumbled onto the trading bootcamp while making his first steps in AI Safety. He couldn't help himself from rewriting the team's trading infrastructure in Rust, and here we are.

Nicholas Charette

Nicholas came to this bootcamp after meeting Ricki as an Atlas Fellow. He works at Standard Intelligence as a generalist engineer and AI researcher, and makes programming languages for fun.