Biography

Dr. Daniel Alexander van Skye is the Founding Principal of QOSEINO, a private AI research and engineering firm bringing together scientists and engineers to solve complex problems in artificial intelligence and quantitative finance for select hedge funds and institutional investment firms. His professional background spans institutional investment management, quantitative and quantamental research, investment strategy development, and corporate leadership.

At QOSEINO, he leads the firm's strategic and commercial development, including institutional client relationships, research mandate origination, scientific talent recruitment, and the formation of specialized research and engineering teams. His responsibilities encompass corporate strategy, commercial structuring, research oversight, and the development of relationships with academic institutions, scientific research organizations, and AI infrastructure providers.

From 2018 to 2022, Daniel served as Chief Investment Officer of Moskapital, a quantitative hedge fund investing across precious metals and critical minerals. He was responsible for investment strategy, portfolio construction, capital allocation, transaction underwriting, and risk oversight. His work combined fundamental investment research with quantitative methods to develop and evaluate investment strategies across listed mining equities and commodity markets.

His investment expertise encompasses systematic and quantamental strategies, financial modeling, empirical research, and portfolio risk management. His research has focused on the interaction between asset fundamentals, corporate financial performance, capital structures, commodity markets, and security pricing. Methodologically, his approach emphasizes economic reasoning, probabilistic analysis, empirical validation, and the evaluation of investment strategies under realistic market and implementation constraints.

Earlier in his career, Daniel founded VANSKYE & CIE, a geopolitical strategy advisory specializing in natural resources, structured finance, and capital allocation across frontier and complex markets. His work covered sovereign and geopolitical risk, transaction diligence, market entry, strategic partnerships, and investment structuring. Subsequent advisory mandates included engagements with senior leadership at Goldman Sachs and BlackRock concerning geopolitical and security risks in resource extraction markets, strategic capital allocation, transaction exposure, and institutional investment positioning.

Daniel holds a Doctor of Business Administration in Finance and an MBA from the University of Southampton, and a BBA from the University of Hamburg.