Gerrit joined TORA in 2006 and currently serves as Managing Director in Japan. Prior to joining TORA, Gerrit spent managed the development of high volume trading applications and analytical tools for hedge funds and banks. He served as CTO and Development Director for a large Asia-focused hedge fund and managed the technology team for Lehman Brothers’ Japanese proprietary trading desk. Earlier, Gerrit was a member of the original Windows NT development team at Microsoft and served as the technical liaison between Microsoft’s Asian NT development team and the core teams in Redmond, Washington. Gerrit holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and subsequently studied at Keio University.