Team
The people behind the firm’s research, trading, operations, and investor relationships.
Nicholas Levenstein
Founder, Director
Nicholas Levenstein is the Founder and Managing Director of Nicholas Levenstein & Company, leading a quantitative hedge fund specializing in cryptocurrency derivatives. A Yale and UCLA graduate, he applies market-neutral strategies to generate consistent income across market cycles. Based in Indonesia, he is an active fintech thought leader, international speaker, and organizer of events such as the Bali Crypto Income Fest, with a strong focus on transparency and risk-adjusted returns.
Paul Aidoo
CFO Consultant
Paul brings extensive experience across traditional asset management and the digital asset ecosystem. With a background in accounting for real estate and home services, Paul applies strong expertise in GAAP, cash flow management, and asset valuation, while also actively engaging with cryptocurrency and DeFi. This dual perspective enables Paul to provide disciplined, risk-aware financial oversight that bridges conventional finance with the evolving demands of digital assets.
Gabriella Pratiwy Noor
Associate
At Nicholas Levenstein & Company, Gabriella supports business operations, project coordination, and internal systems development across the firm’s investment and general management functions. With over a decade of experience in financial services and project management, she plays a key role in operationalizing investor outreach systems, streamlining workflows through CRM and AI-driven automations, and ensuring efficient day-to-day operations.
Aneep Tandel
Senior Software Engineer
As a Senior Software Engineer at Nicholas Levenstein & Company, Aneep brings over a decade of experience as a hands-on technologist and technical leader. He designs and delivers scalable, cloud-native platforms across fintech, blockchain, and Web3, specializing in full-stack development, microservices, and event-driven architectures. Known for bridging complex technology with business objectives, Aneep leads distributed teams to build secure, high-performance systems, with a strong focus on DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure optimization to ensure reliability, scalability, and long-term value.
Olha Lutchyn
Marketing & Outreach Associate
Olha Lutchyn leads investor outreach and public-facing communications at Nicholas Levenstein & Company. She manages the firm’s prospect-outreach operations end to end — coordinating investor correspondence and developing the firm’s public-facing fund materials. Working across English, Russian, and Ukrainian, she helps ensure the firm’s investor communications are clear, consistent, and professionally presented.