Management

Stephen F. Elston, Ph.D., Managing Director

Dr. Elston is a founder and managing director of Quantia Analytics, LLC.  With over 25 years of executive experience in the software industry, he led international teams at several startup companies.

Prior to Quantia Analytics, Dr. Elston was co-founder and President of FinAnalytica, Inc, which develops, markets, and sells sophisticated risk systems to numerous clients including major proprietary trading organizations, hedge funds and funds of hedge funds in the U.S. and Europe. Elston was VP of R&D for Statistical Sciences, Inc. (later MathSoft, Inc. and Insightful, Inc.), which commercially developed, marketed and supported the widely used S-PLUS product based on research from Bell Laboratories.

Dr. Elston holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geophysics from Princeton University.