Built by practitioners.

Adam Darmanin

Founder & CEO

Adam Darmanin is a quantitative systems and investment-technology practitioner with senior institutional experience across systematic investment, research platforms and production model infrastructure.

He previously served as a Senior Engineering Director at BlackRock, where his work spanned large-scale quantitative and systematic investment platforms. At Ex Vi he applies Quant 4.0 principles: automated research, interpretable modeling and an engineered path from hypothesis to live trading.

His focus is reducing friction between research and production while preserving disciplined validation, portfolio-level risk ownership and operational control.

Harry Larkin

Founder & President, Electronic Trading

Harry Larkin focuses on high-frequency and intra-day electronic trading, with a background in electronic FX trading and market microstructure research. His experience spans macro and discretionary FX trading alongside systematic execution research, and he has published research in FX market microstructure.

He builds and validates trading systems in C#/.NET and Python, with a focus on backtesting discipline and validation methodology. He studied Economics, Management and Finance at the London School of Economics.

Andy Larkin

Founder & Chief Scientist

Andy Larkin leads deep AI research at Ex Vi. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Warwick and is a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered IT Professional. He has spent over two decades working in artificial intelligence and knowledge-based engineering, across academic, consultancy and advisory roles.

His academic output spans conference papers, journal articles and invited lectures in AI and neural computing, reflecting a long-standing research practice in the field. At Ex Vi he sets research standards and scientific governance, and works on AI-based trading algorithm development in FX markets.