OriginFounder and CEO
Mar 2025 — Present
Ahmad Shadid is founder and CEO of Origin and founder of O Foundation. He previously founded and led io.net, moving from quantitative systems work into its GPU cloud business, and left the CEO role in June 2024. He also founded the IOG Foundation to support the IO ecosystem. Earlier, he worked on quantitative trading systems at WhalesTrader and ArabFolio Capital and in M&A at Cordoba Partners.
Ahmad Shadid is founder and CEO of Origin and founder of O Foundation. He previously founded and led io.net, moving from quantitative systems work into its GPU cloud business, and left the CEO role in June 2024. He also founded the IOG Foundation to support the IO ecosystem. Earlier, he worked on quantitative trading systems at WhalesTrader and ArabFolio Capital and in M&A at Cordoba Partners.
Career
O FoundationFounder
Jun 2024 — Present
IOG FoundationFounder
Mar 2023 — Jun 2024
io.netFounder and CEO
Feb 2023 — Jun 2024
io.netFounder and CTO / Quantitative Systems Engineer
Nov 2018 — Feb 2023
Early quantitative systems work preceding io.net’s GPU cloud business.
WhalesTraderQuantitative Systems Engineer
Nov 2018 — Dec 2019
ArabFolio CapitalQuantitative Systems Engineer
Mar 2018 — May 2019
Cordoba PartnersMergers and Acquisitions
Mar 2017 — Jan 2018