Andrew Joseph DeFeo

Mr. Andrew J.
DeFeo is a Founder & Business Development Director at Optimize Advisors LLC and a Director-Business Development at Tradelegs LLC.
His deep risk management expertise has influenced Tradelegs’ advanced liquidity handling, user experience, and expanding product suite.
He works closely with clients to analyze their trading strategies and help them leverage the Tradelegs software to the fullest extent.
Mr. DeFeo began working with Tradelegs in 2011 in a partnership role while he was on the Electronic and Algorithmic Trading desk at Goldman Sachs.
He helped coordinate a commercial agreement between Tradelegs and Goldman, and worked closely with the Tradelegs team in the early stages of development for Tradelegs Derivatives Strategist.
He subsequently joined Tradelegs full time to help establish its business development team.
Prior to joining Tradelegs, he was the Chief Risk/Compliance Officer for Pico Quantitative Trading’s low latency trading systems and analytics.
He began his career at Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing.
He was appointed Co-Head of Risk for Electronic and Algorithmic Trading in 2009 and head of Business Development for Canada, Latin America and Futures Risk in 2012.
He also served as Co-Supervisor for Goldman’s Sigma X Liquidity Pool and Sigma Smart Router for the US.
He graduated from Georgetown University with a BA in Government in 2005.
Andrew has his Series 7, 3, 63, 55 and 24 licenses.