Marco Bitran most recently founded AI Exchange, Inc. with $1.5 in venture capital from General Catalyst, Founder Collective, Common Angels and LaunchCapital. AI Exchange improves access to alternative investment strategies by making these strategies available in liquid and transparent managed accounts. Marco, originally an electrical engineer from MIT, designed the trade processing technology that operates the AI Exchange platform.

An entrepreneur with experience in both engineering and finance, Bitran previously worked at an investment fund that utilized quantitative models developed at MIT to trade and invest in ETFs and other investment assets. Prior professional experiences include overseeing a sleeve of the Global Research Equity Portfolio as an analyst for Wellington Management Company and working as an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Bitran designed computer chips with voice-processing capabilities for Qualcomm, where he was an engineer in the cellular systems division.

Born in Sao Paolo, Brazil and reared in Boston, Marco is a graduate of Harvard Business School (’03, First Year Honors). He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (’97), where he was selected to three National Honor Societies, served as Vice President of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and elected captain of the NCAA Division I Rowing team. He also studied at Stanford University, during which time he founded Digital Entertainment Media, Inc., which provided high-quality Internet music streaming to listeners.

Husband and father of two children under age 5, Marco also enjoys walks in nature, squash, running road races, and photography. He regularly contributes significant time and resources to the Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the MSPCA and other animal rights organizations, and the Bitran Charitable Foundation. Marco has also volunteered and consulted for public housing support organizations such as the Somerville Homeless Coalition, created by the local community’s grassroots response to the social crisis of homelessness.