Dr. Mark Higgins has deep financial industry experience in quantitative research and analytics. Before co-founding Beacon in 2014, Mark spent eight years at JPMorgan, launching and delivering the Athena project, co-heading the Quantitative Research group for the investment bank, and running the electronic market-making business for currency options. Before JPMorgan, he spent eight years at Goldman Sachs as a strategist on the foreign exchange and interest rate market-making desks.