Christina Qi

CEO

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States15 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

CEO of one of the fastest-growing market data providers.
Former hedge fund founder with significant trading volume.
Board member at MIT and various financial organizations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with expertise in market data and high-frequency trading.

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Skills

Core Skills

Market DataHigh Frequency Trading

Other Skills

PythonC++RustHTTP APIAPI DevelopmentCustomer AcquisitionEquitiesFinancial ModelingData AnalysisValuationBloombergMatlabFixed IncomeInvestmentsEconomics

About

(I've reached the 30k Linkedin connection limit. Feel free to try adding me anyway. Beware of scammers impersonating me. A good way to tell is that fake accounts have under 30k connections.) Christina Qi is the CEO of Databento, one of the fastest-growing market data providers in the world. She formerly founded Domeyard LP, a hedge fund focused on high frequency trading (HFT) that traded up to $7.1 billion USD per day. Christina is a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Board of Trustees. She was Co-Chair of the Board of Invest in Girls and served on the Boards of Forbes Under 30, The Financial Executives Alliance (FEA) Hedge Fund Group, the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association, and the U.S. Non-Profit Boards Committee of 100 Women in Finance. Christina earned a Bachelor of Science in Management Science from MIT in 2013 and earned her CAIA designation in 2015. She lives in her home state Utah with 10 chickens, 2 turtles, and a 15-year-old dog. I respond faster to questions on Twitter: @christinaqi My Databento signup link: https://to.dbn.to/cqi

Experience

15 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Duke university pratt school of engineering

Advisory Board

Aug 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Duke Financial Technology Master of Engineering Program
Board members advise program leadership on curriculum and general strategy to ensure that Duke FinTech meets the needs of students and of the financial industry in educating the next generation of financial technology leaders.

Gbh

Board of Advisors

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

GBH (fka WGBH) is the largest creator for public media in America, including PBS, NPR and PRX.

Commonwealth

Advisory Council

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

Databento

Chief Executive Officer

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Databento offers instant access to market data for all use cases:
Historical and real-time
Raw and normalized
Level 1 to Level 3, and 10+ other formats - we're the only vendor that offers L3 (MBO) data via internet
Interconnects (cloud and on-prem), cross-connects, and colocation
Self-service via our website or API
Python, C++, Rust, and HTTP API
Usage-based pricing starting at $0.45/GB or flat-rate pricing starting at $179/month
Covering 75+ venues and counting
Since launching 2 years ago, Databento has gained over 12,000 customers, from early-stage startups to the largest financial institutions in the world.
Databento's team has walked in the shoes of its customers, bringing years of experience running high-frequency trading desks from firms like Two Sigma, Flow Traders, Virtu, and Tower Research.
Learn more: https://to.dbn.to/cqi

PythonC++RustHTTP APIMarket DataHigh Frequency Trading

Massachusetts institute of technology

3 roles

Member of the MIT Corporation Development Committee, MIT's Board of Trustees

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 5 mos

Christina is a member of the MIT Corporation Development Committee, a standing committee of the MIT Corporation (the board of trustees), charged with raising critical financial resources to uphold the Institute's academic rigor, promote student life, and advance global initiatives.
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Board Member, Entrepreneurship Co-Chair, MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association

Jan 2017 – May 2022 · 5 yrs 4 mos

I started Founders Therapy, an intimate roundtable discussion series with MIT + local founders. We sit around a table, pass around food and cookies, and open up about our deepest problems. Founders Therapy is free for attendees, with dinner provided by generous sponsors, individuals, and the SBAA. If you're interested in participating or sponsoring Founders Therapy, please send me a private message.
I also help host the MIT Entrepreneur + VC Networking Series, open to the greater Boston community.

Visiting Lecturer

Jan 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 5 mos

2014-2019: Visiting lecturer for 1997 Nobel Laureate Robert Merton's (of Black-Scholes-Merton, Long Term Capital Management) graduate-level MIT class "15.467: Retirement Finance, Lifecycle Investing, and Asset Management".
2019-2022: Visiting lecturer for MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield and Dean David Schmittlein's graduate-level MIT class "15.389: Corporations at the Crossroads".

Invest in girls

2 roles

Co-Chair of the Board

Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 · 4 yrs

Board Member, Development Committee Co-Chair

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr

Invest in Girls transforms girls’ futures through a comprehensive financial education equipping them for a powerful future.

Harvard business school

Guest Lecturer and HBS Case Study Protagonist

Jan 2014 – Jan 2021 · 7 yrs · Harvard

Guest lecturer at Harvard Business School, various classes.
Domeyard is the protagonist of Harvard Business School's first case study on quantitative trading / HFT. Published by three professors from Harvard and UC Irvine, the case study is taught in HBS's core investments class, and used as lesson materials at various universities around the world. The two-part case teaches students about quantitative trading and hedge fund startups through the journey of Domeyard's founding team.