Upshot Deepens Data and Machine Learning Bench, Hires Head of Data & ML

Upshot, a blockchain-based protocol providing industry-leading non-fungible token (NFT) appraisals, announced the hiring of Orestis Tsinalis as Head of Data & Machine Learning. Tsinalis will report directly to CEO Nick Emmons and will be responsible for leading Upshot's growing data and machine learning teams, as well as improving the company's ML models to deliver real-time NFT appraisals for the market. Prior to joining Upshot, Tsinalis served as Head of Quantitative Research and as a Quantitative Trader at GHCO – one of the fastest-growing liquidity providers specializing in ETFs. While at GHCO, Tsinalis built and scaled pricing models for the company's global ETF book, developed new strategies for trading crypto ETPs, coins and futures, and built the ML infrastructure for backtesting high-frequency trading strategies. Tsinalis also served as the Principal Data Scientist at abrdn, a top-five UK asset manager with over $600b in AUM.