Advisory Level

Zane McMinn

Principal

Founder and principal of Rothguard and Imperium Alternatives LLC. He leads the firm’s multi-manager liquid alternatives platform, focused on emerging managers and institutional-quality portfolio construction.

Zane brings direct experience in private fund formation, regulatory structuring, capital raising, and business development with family offices and institutional allocators. He has built and oversees the firm’s investment process, manager selection framework, and operational infrastructure, with a clear emphasis on alignment, risk discipline, and long-term partnerships.

Damon Taylor

Operations

Founder of Understory Digital Asset Fund, Damon brings more than two decades of leadership across military service, private funds, investing, and Web3 venture building.

A former U.S. Marine and Summa Cum Laude graduate, Damon applies a disciplined, analytical approach to fund operations and strategy. He has managed multimillion-dollar portfolios, led numerous management teams, advised more than 120 blockchain startups, and helped architect Neo Tokyo’s $100M private crypto community and blockchain incubator, giving the firm strong operational infrastructure and market access.

Jake Tullis

Macroanalysis

Founder of Bleeding Edge Capital, a discretionary hedge fund, and Gaelios Consulting, which advises institutional clients on digital-asset strategy. With over a decade in software development and finance, he brings a technical, data-first approach to macro analysis for capital allocators.

As Macroanalysis Advisor to Imperium Fund, Jake applies his proprietary three-horizon framework (6-month tactical, 18-month cyclical, 36-month structural) to guide positioning and LP reporting. Publicly known as JTKnowsThings, he shares macro market analysis with a wide following across YouTube and social platforms.

Jeff Tiefenthaler

Technology

Founder of BDG and a technology-driven investment professional. He began his career at Microsoft in 2011 and went on to design, build, and license proprietary investment management and automated execution systems, delivering more than 300 algorithms to trading partnerships and high-net-worth clients worldwide.

That blend of technical fluency and market experience drives his systematic approach across equities, options, and digital assets, with a particular focus on Bitcoin and emerging decentralized technologies.

Strategy Level

Ran Karni

Intra-Day SPX Straddles

Quantitative and Al-driven intra-day S&P500 options straddle strategy using proprietary supply/demand analytics signals. Selective long/short positions targeting volatility capture.

  • London, UK

  • Sub Team Size: 5

  • Pure Quant

  • SP500 Option Straddles

Mark Ivanov

Systematic Digital Assets

Designed to harvest short- and medium-term repeatable market inefficiencies through high turnover with controlled drawdowns and exposure across volatility and liquidity regimes.

  • Dubai, UAE

  • Sub Team Size: 7

  • Pure Quant

  • Crypto Futures Long/Short

Gary Clark

Commodity Equity Strategy

Long-biased, concentrated equity strategy in high-conviction stock and ETF picking with selective long/short opportunities and options overlay. Agriculture, Energy, and Metals & Mining.

  • Houston, TX

  • Sub Team Size: 1

  • Discretionary Global Macro

  • Commodity Equities

Nick LeRose

Systematic Bitcoin ETFs

Systematic long/short Bitcoin ETF strategy driven by proprietary algorithmic signals, options overlays for hedging and enhancement. Amplifies BTC upside, creates convexity.

  • Barranquilla, Colombia

  • Sub Team Size: 4

  • Systematic Signal

  • BTC ETF Long/Short

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