Our Firm
We started this company with a vision, driven by a passion to create a trusted space to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the emerging world of digital assets. Our goal is to ensure every investor has the opportunity to be part of this groundbreaking revolution.
We believe in the transformative power of blockchain technology and the profound benefits it can bring to society.
We believe that digital assets are an asset class that nearly every investor should be seriously evaluating for inclusion as part of a strategic asset allocation.
We believe investors in this exciting new space will be best served by managers who bring the best of TradFi approaches to digital assets – rigor, patience, skepticism, dispassionate analysis, and equal attention to the three drivers of investment performance – returns, risk, and costs.
We believe that our clients, partners, supporters, and friends are everything and that without them we would be nothing.
We are Firinne Capital.
Our Investment Beliefs
There is a dividing line between those with a genuine belief in the promise of decentralization and the value of the user-owned networks now forming the primitives of Web3, and those chasing the latest trends. What is truly innovative is the novel assemblage of existing technologies to disrupt centralized intermediaries. Over the years many projects have violated this precept for short-term gains to their long-term detriment. However, we believe it is those projects and investors that have grasped the significance of decentralization, armed with the courage of their convictions that will prevail.
With digital assets, we hold the seeds of a new world economy, one with the potential to transform the very act of human-to-human and human-to-machine transactions in ways that empower the individual that was never possible before.
Our Team
Ruairi Hanafin, PhD
Chief Investment Officer
Ruairi is an entrepreneur, investor, and early proponent of blockchain technology. He co-founded Canadian agricultural technology startup Grain Discovery. He has held positions in research and portfolio engineering in the quantitative portfolio management teams at CPP Investments, where he also founded the blockchain research group, and at the Vancouver derivatives analytics company FINCAD.
He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Trinity College, University of Dublin.
Jim Hwang, CFA
Chief Operating Officer
Jim is an accomplished institutional investor whose conversion to digital assets was gradual, and then sudden. He has researched and implemented quantitative strategies and total portfolio design at major global institutions including CPP Investments, Bosera Asset Management, and Barclays Global Investors, across the various geographies of Canada, HK/China, and the US.
He holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and a B.S. in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a CFA Charterholder.
Jay Vyas, CFA
Chief Strategy Officer
Jay has been in the quantitative investing space for over three decades and is an investor in digital assets.
Previously he was Managing Director, Head of Research and Innovation, at CPP Investments, and has also worked at Vyas Capital Management, Barclays Global Investors, Martingale Asset Management, and BARRA.
He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He is a CFA Charterholder.
Victor Li, CFA
Research Advisor
Victor is an early crypto adopter, investor, and educator. He co-founded DeFi Toronto in 2019 and teaches a blockchain course at York University.
Previously Victor specialized in investment research at CPP Investments and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. He covered multiple asset classes and macroeconomics.
He holds an M.A. in Applied Economics from the University of Victoria. He is a CFA Charterholder.