About Us

Our mission is to provide indexes and technology to enable
the next generation of options investing.

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Dan Corcoran

Dan Corcoran is the co-founder and CEO of Volos, an index and technology provider for options strategies. Dan started Volos in 2014 to use options to service institutional investors such as asset managers, banks, pensions, and insurance companies. At Volos, Dan leads a 16-person team of index, software, and solutions specialists with the mission of helping clients dramatically expand their capabilities within options. Dan is involved with several industry groups where he has participated in sharing options research, including the CFA Society of Boston, EQ Derivatives, and the Options Industry Council (OIC).

Saif Sultan, Ph.D.

Saif co-founded Volos in 2014 and has quantitative finance experience at Banco Santander, developing enterprise risk models for MBS. Saif holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Mathematics from Northeastern University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Science and Technology in Pakistan.

Tom Corcoran

Tom has previous experience at Putnam Investments and CBRE Group as a full-stack software engineer, designing and developing modern web applications and cloud systems. Tom holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Boston University.

Jeremy McElrea

Jeremy has 20+ years of experience at Barclays in cross asset sales and structuring, with an extensive skill set in designing systematic and derivatives products. Jeremy holds an MBA with Honors from the Wharton Business School and a B.S. in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Canterbury.

Jeff Corrado

Jeff is a FinTech entrepreneur, creating financial software and analysis solutions. Jeff began his career in institutional equity research and sales at Furey Research and Granahan Investment Management. Jeff holds an MBA from Babson College and a B.S. in Finance from the Marshall School of Business at USC.

Robert Jaeger

Robert is a FinTech entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience as a board member, consultant, and advisor to companies developing portfolio management tools, financial news solutions, and financial data products. Robert holds a B.S. in BSBA, Finance, and International Business from Washington University in St. Louis.

Tom Ducrot

Tom is a FinTech entrepreneur and also has 20+ years of experience in the hedge fund space and with Morgan Stanley, concentrating on capital introductions, listed derivatives and systematic strategies. Tom holds an M.S. in Finance from ESCP School of Management and a B.S. in Management from Dauphine University.

Chris Barker

Chris has 20+ years of industry experience building innovative solutions. Chris has domain knowledge in equity and derivatives markets, lean project management, lean software development, systems thinking and practice including creating organizational learning cultures, quality processes, people management and the full software development lifecycle.

Meet The Team

Dan Corcoran

CEO

Saif Sultan, Ph.D.

CTO

Tom Corcoran

Head of Product

Jeremy McElrea

Head of Indexes

Jeff Corrado

Head of Sales Operations

Robert Jaeger

CMO

Tom Ducrot

Head of Business Development

Chris Barker

Head of Market Data

Sean Kruzel

Consultant, Index R&D

Gary Strickland

Part-Time CFO

Nan Xie

Co-Op, Index Validation Engineer

Kiran Gangadharaiah

Co-Op, Index Quant Engineer

Mitali Manjarekar

Co-Op, Market Data Engineer

Nathan Zhao

Operations Associate