Maxwell Braun graduated with a BA in Political Economy from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He then began his career in Financial Services with UBS, acting as a technology liaison and helping drive AML efforts. While at UBS, he obtained his FINRA Series 7 and Series 66 licenses. Max then went on to become a Senior Financial Analyst at BNY Mellon in Seattle, where he refined KYC compliance protocols and become West Coast Associate of the Year in 2022. Max grew up in Piedmont, CA.
Background expertise
Rukmal Weerawarana graduated with a BBA in Finance and Business Economics from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
In College, he contributed to various research projects, including targeted drug design for HIV patients, a CubeSat that is currently in orbit, and one of the world’s first functioning Hyperloop Systems.
As a Graduate Student at the Stevens Institute of Technology and a Research Fellow at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he worked on ranking in knowledge graphs, and designing algorithms for processing sensorimotor data for BCI-driven robotic prosthetics.
After graduating with an MS in Financial Engineering from Stevens, Rukmal became a Software Engineer at ExtraHop Networks in Seattle. There, he worked with Big Data systems to develop cybersecurity algorithms and machine learning cloud infrastructure. He then contributed to kickstarting a (non-profit) technology-enabled school in Sri Lanka and was the Lead Data Scientist at Capitol AI in New York City in early 2023.
