Richard Gardner is the founder and CEO of Modulus Global. Richard immersed himself in financial markets at a very young age when he began trading futures under a custodial account over 30 years ago. After obtaining an education in computer science, he developed software for top-tier financial institutions in the 1990's. In 1996, he developed a commodity trading system that used A.I. to analyze crop reports and weather data. Richard has authored three programming languages ---TradeGPU, TradeBASIC, and TradeScript--- and he is the designer of the Real-Time Market Data (RMD) Server, a high performance time-series database engine for quantitative analysis of market data. Other research includes his past position as principal architect of SharpeMind, which was an A.I. system powered by IBM Watson, designed to read millions of financial reports in order to provide insights to make better investment decisions. Richard is responsible for overseeing strategic direction and enabling rapid growth of Modulus as a global provider of advanced technology and consulting services. As the founder of Modulus, Richard was instrumental in growing the sales, support, and business development units of the company.