Meet the BPN Team

We are fundamental analysts and
software developers.
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Mike Ryan

Co-Founder and CEO

Peter Moore

Peter Moore

Co-Founder and Research Architect

Ajay Tandon

Ajay Tandon

Director of Business Development

Alexey Boyarintsev

Alexey Boyarintsev

Software Development Team Leader

Dan Gahagan, CFA

Dan Gahagan, CFA

Analyst

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Winston Minor

Analyst

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Artem Tkachev

Software QA Engineer

Artem Khorolskiy

Artem Khorolskiy

Software Developer

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Yuriy Rudnyev

Software Developer

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Yan Liaskovka

Software Developer

Mike Ryan

Co-Founder and CEO

Mike Ryan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bullet Point Network. An active private investor, entrepreneur, and board member, Mike has almost 30 years of investment, capital markets, and management experience.

In addition to founding and overseeing BPN, Mike is also the Board Chair of the Alpha Partners Technology Merger Corp and has been the CIO of MDR Capital, his family office, since 2009. Before founding Bullet Point Network, Mike served as Head of Public Equity and Absolute Return at the Harvard endowment, Head of Global Securities (overseeing equities, fixed income, currencies & commodities) at Credit Suisse, and Partner and Head of Global Equity Products at Goldman Sachs, where he spent the first 18 years of his career.

Mike has served as a director, committee chair, and board chair on numerous corporate and non-profit boards. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in economics and was an Academic All-American in basketball.

Peter Moore

Co-Founder and Research Architect

Peter Moore is the Co-Founder and Research Architect of Bullet Point Network. He has more than 20 years of investment, research, and software development experience.

Peter worked with Mike Ryan at Goldman Sachs to start his career and again at Harvard immediately before co-founding Bullet Point Network. At Harvard, Peter served as research director, using the Bullet Point Network Platform to help Mike oversee $18 billion in investments and co-manage a $1 billion direct portfolio.

Peter was founder and portfolio manager of Clados Management, whose concentrated public market long/short portfolio produced 2% annualized alpha over seven years. He was also on the investment teams at $20 billion private equity firm Apax Partners and $2 billion hedge fund Symphony Asset Management. Peter earned a degree in engineering sciences and Asian studies from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Peter received several National Science Foundation grants for research that resulted in the Bullet Point Network Platform.

Ajay Tandon

Director of Business Development

Ajay Tandon is the Director of Business Development at Bullet Point Network. He has 20 years of experience in investing, capital markets, investment banking, and business development. Prior to his role at Bullet Point Network, he served as a managing director of a smallcap equity research firm based in New York City where he helped to create a research coverage universe of over 250 small public companies across a variety of sectors. During his tenure at the firm he helped execute and produce 25 investor conferences that cumulatively featured 1,000 issuers, 10,000 investors and industry professionals, and over 5,000 1×1 meetings. Ajay has also served as a vice president of a New York City based investment bank’s equity capital markets group where he headed the equity syndicate team. Since 2018, Ajay has been serving as a strategic advisor to a smallcap, long equity fund based in New York City. Ajay graduated from Cornell University.

Alexey Boyarintsev

Software Development Team Leader

Alexey Boyarintsev is the Software Development Team Leader at Bullet Point Network. He has over 10 years of professional expertise in the IT industry. Alex specializes in Java technology, software architecture and design. He has expert knowledge of both back-end and front-end architecture. Before joining Bullet Point Network, Alex worked in high load production environments, developing marketing project tools for analyzing vast amounts of social media data and online video broadcasting. He earned his master’s degree in finance from Kharkov’s National University of Economics.

Dan Gahagan, CFA

Analyst

Dan Gahagan is an Analyst at Bullet Point Network. He has more than five years of investment experience. Prior to joining Bullet Point Network, Dan was a research associate with Glenview Capital Management, a $10 billion fundamental long/short equity hedge fund. In this role, Dan performed due diligence and primary research on public companies and industries within the healthcare sector. Prior to Glenview, Dan was an analyst in the Global Market Strategies division of The Carlyle Group where he ran portfolio and risk analysis across various hedge fund investments. Dan earned a B.S. in operations research from Columbia University and a B.A. in mathematics from Gettysburg College. Additionally, Dan holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Winston Minor

Analyst

Winston is an Analyst at Bullet Point Network. Prior to joining BPN, Winston was an intern at BH Asset Management, a registered investment advisor in New York. In this role, he conducted research and analysis on U.S. equities, specifically focusing on REITs. Additionally, he oversaw administrative tasks relating to customer relationship management. Winston previously interned at Trematon Capital Investments, an investment holding company based in Cape Town, South Africa. There, he contributed to the growth of Generation Schools, a startup subsidiary focused on education. Winston received a B.A. in Economics and History from the University of Virginia and an M.S. in Commerce, with a finance concentration, from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

Artem Tkachev

Software QA Engineer

Artem Tkachev is a QA Engineer at Bullet Point Network. He has over 7 years of experience in different domains from network engineering and system administration to the QA process.
Prior to his role at Bullet Point Network, Artem worked on a digital marketing project, which specializes in collecting and analyzing ads from social networks. He has participated in all stages of software development including design, testing, UI/UX, and production support. Before that, Artem served as DevOps at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University where he earned his master's degree. Also, he was a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Radio Astronomy National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Artem Khorolskiy

Software Developer

Artem Khorolskiy is a Software Developer for Bullet Point Network. He has over six years of experience mostly in back-end software development. Before joining Bullet Point Network, Artem was working at NetCracker Company, which specializes in delivering solutions to communications service providers around the world. He has participated in all phases of the software development lifecycle including analysis, design, deployment, testing and production support. Artem has taken on several projects in media, telecommunication and marketing spheres. He earned his master’s degree in Kiev’s International Solomon University.

Yuriy Rudnyev

Software Developer

Yuriy Rudnyev is a Software Developer at Bullet Point Network. He has over 7 years of experience in the IT industry and over 13 years of scientific research experience. Before joining Bullet Point Network, Yuriy was working at the travel club company, where he was responsible for both back-end and front-end software development. He earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.

Yan Liaskovka

Software Developer

Yan Liaskovka is a Software Developer at Bullet Point Network. He has one year of enterprise experience in back-end and front-end software development and completed several projects during his university education, including development for mobile platforms. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Kharkiv National University of RadioElectronics. He's responsible for web application development, troubleshooting and performance.

Our Mission, Vision, and Values

Our goal is to help you make better decisions

Mission

Our Mission

We enable investors and companies to be more strategic by quantifying their stories in scenarios for their most important decisions.

Vision

Our Vision

We see decisions based on powerful scenario models which accurately illustrate true upside and downside, where models are continually updated, key assumptions are supported by evidence, and stakeholders are sharing information and insight.

Values

Our Values

We aspire to be intellectually honest, appropriately humble, and justifiably confident in all our decisions. Alignment, integrity and collaboration are at the core of what we do.

How We
Got Here

Bullet Point Network co-founders Mike Ryan and Peter Moore have collaborated over three decades, working together both at Goldman Sachs and Harvard’s endowment. Now, they make BPN’s team of fundamental research analysts and software developers available to support your analysis and leverage your domain expertise and research.

We have made investments, worked with Funds, and supported portfolio companies across a range of industries and sectors, including:

  • Biotechnology
  • Medical Technology
  • Finance
  • Financial Technology
  • Consumer
  • Consumer Technology
  • Restaurant Technology
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • Telecommunications (TMT)
  • Real Estate Technology
  • Real Estate
  • Information Technology
  • Data and Machine Learning
1996
Co-Founder Mike Ryan taught co-founder Peter Moore scenario analysis in the preferred Goldman Sachs style. Moore received a Stanford MBA and Ryan became a partner at Goldman Sachs.
2006
Ryan was Co-Head of Global Equity Products at Goldman Sachs. During this same time frame, Moore won multiple National Science Foundation research grants to build a graph database platform to Quantify Stories in Scenarios.
2016
Ryan and Moore licensed BPN’s patented graph database platform to the Harvard Endowment, where Ryan managed $18 billion and was a member of Harvard’s Investment Committee.
Today
Now, they make BPN’s team of fundamental research analysts and patented software available to leverage your domain expertise and research in the BPN Platform.

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