What We Do

Investio offers a unique service by providing its users with intelligent technical analysis interpretations. We are long term investors, however, we have all seen that the traditional buy and hold approach does not work. Take the 2008 world financial crisis as an example for highly diversified portfolios. Investio has combined leading minds in the industry on technical analysis and combined that with sophisticated algorithms that interpret the reading of charts. We do this for our users so that they don't have to. In order to make this work, we borrowed research concepts from the neuroscience world.  Instead of showing charts, we show what the charts actually mean utilizing proprietary trading strategies. The strategies we utilize have been successfully used by institutional portfolio managers, hedge fund managers, securities analysts, and real brokers to dramatically improve their performance.  The result is an offering that is extremely simple to use and anyone can benefit from, irrespective of investment experience level.

Investio Founding Team

Khanan Grauer, Founder & CEO

Khanan is one of the key people that architected the S&P 1500 Index architecture as well as refine the technical architecture of the prestigious S&P 500 Index for McGraw-Hill, parent company of Standard & Poor's. Most recently, Khanan served as Vice President of Engineering for Intermedia Advertising Group (IAG), acquired by the Nielsen Companies in 2008. In this capacity, Khanan's team rolled out technical architectures that were on the front page of Yahoo! and MySpace, measuring advertising effectiveness and scaling to 100 million unique traffic hits per day utilizing the latest concepts in cloud computing, load balancing & data replication. Khanan also worked at Bank of America and JPMorganChase in the enterprise architecture groups and engineering. Khanan is on the board of advisors at Cfengine, a company based out of Norway that pioneered data-center automation software used by NASA, IBM, AMD, Bloomberg, Ebay, Stanford, Yale and other institutions. Khanan graduated from Baruch College with a dual focus on computer information systems and business. Khanan enjoys traveling, rafting, chess and the gorgeous New York City. 

Rick Martin, Co-Founder 

Rick Martin is a consultant to small hedge funds, broker/dealers, as well as a principal at Investio.  He was previously  the Director of Research for Ryan Beck & Co. and the principal of Ryan Beck Kronos Fund, LP.  Prior to joining Ryan Beck, he was the co-founder and primary portfolio manager of Geronimo Partners Asset Management, LLC, and the past Director of Research and Board member of Tucker Anthony Sutro Capital Markets (TASCM), and Managing Partner of TASCM Investment Partners, a private equity fund.  Prior to joining TASCM, Mr. Martin had been Director of Research and Co-Head of Investment Banking for Advest, Director of Research for Swiss Bank, Director of Research for The Chicago Corporation, and an Institutional Investor All Star technology analyst.  Mr. Martin has over 20 years of investment and securities experience.  In addition to his experience as a hedge fund manager and securities analyst, he has also managed trading, sales, research, and investment banking organizations. Mr. Martin graduated with a B.S.E. in Engineering from The University of Michigan.

Kevin DeSimone, Lead Scientist 

Kevin is currently working at Columbia University's Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology Department.  Kevin develops brain imaging software tools and analysis methods.  Kevin has conducted brain imaging research at New York University and Princeton University as well.  Kevin has published data in peer-reviewed journals (http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/3494) and presented his findings at conferences.    

Joe Ranft, EVP of Product Development

Joe Ranft is a consultant specializing in online strategy, design, customer experience, usability, and user research. His clients have included Fidelity Investments, Athenahealth, Motley Fool, Weather.com, Cars.com, and several early stage Internet start-ups. Previously, Joe was VP of Product & Design for UpDown.com (www.updown.com) a virtual investing platform. Prior to joining The UpDown, Joe was VP of User Experience for Fidelity Investments, where he managed the design teams for www.fidelity.com, 401k.com, Active Trader Pro, and several other Fidelity Web sites and Windows applications. Joe is a graduate of The University of Memphis (B.A., English) and The University of Iowa (M.A., English and Education).

Harry Brodsky, VP Business Development

Harry comes from a wide & diverse background in media and finance. He spent over 4 years working in the media industry for such companies as Viacom and Newscorp. At Newscorp, Harry oversaw the integration of different systems as well as managed different operational groups to streamline new media initiatives. Harry has also spent time working for financial firms such as Morgan Stanley where he was responsible for bringing various procedures into production by utilizing his knowledge of systems and finance. Harry obtained a BS in Information Systems from Pace University and is currently pursuing an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

Anton Yarmolenko, Lead Software Engineer

Anton is a specialist in developing Internet applications. He has over ten years of programming experience and has developed many websites and computer systems. Anton has a degree of masters of technical science in railway automatics and telemachanics. Anton was involved in developing a microprocessor-based system dealing with trains management. Anton lectures at Belarussian State University of Transport. Anton enjoys sports, reading and traveling.

Advisory Board

Chinedu Echeruo

Flip Phillips

Flip Phillips is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Neuroscience Program at Skidmore College. At one point or other in his life, he has been a marching band instructor, a graphic artist, a computer programmer, a medical imaging researcher, a cyclist/rower/cross country skier, a professional musician and an animation scientist at Pixar Animation Studios. His academic credentials come via The Ohio State University (mail-order branch) and he has taught, lectured, and done research at various institutions all over the world (many times with permission). At Skidmore, Professor Phillips teaches and researches the modeling of brain function, three-dimensional shape perception, and space perception. If he were a tree, Dr. Phillips would most likely be cut down and turned into a bookshelf.