Who We Are

Colin Jones

Founder & Chief Investment Officer


Noam Ofek

Chief Technology Officer

  • Colin is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Outerlands. After spending over a decade researching systematic investing, Colin launched Outerlands on the thesis that robust, well-researched systematic investing strategies can and should be applied to digital assets. Prior to the spinout, Colin was Head of Strategic Investments at Horizen Labs, a successful blockchain development company, where he evaluated a variety of private investments and special situations, advised on tokenomics, and invested the balance sheet across both crypto and traditional investment vehicles. Prior to Horizen Labs, Colin spent over a decade in academia researching and teaching investments, most recently as a professor at the University of Notre Dame and as the Faculty Director for the Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing. Prior to his academic career, Colin worked in startups, economic development, and venture capital. Colin holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Pennsylvania State University, and an M.B.A from the College of William & Mary.

  • Noam is the Chief Technology Officer at Outerlands where he leads the development of the Firm’s proprietary portfolio management solution, built to enable efficient access to hundreds of assets across a wide range of exchanges and native blockchains, and seamlessly move assets into storage at industry leading custodians. Additionally, Noam is the lead trader for the Firm and manages IT and cybersecurity for Outerlands. Noam has over 14 years of experience developing enterprise-grade software applications across a variety of industries. Most recently, he was the founder and CTO of FuriTech, an enterprise-focused software development company, and FuriTrading, an algorithmic cryptocurrency trading company. Prior to founding his companies, Noam was a VP of R&D at Shamaym, a publicly traded work-management technology platform, and an R&D manager at Rumble, a media platform acquired by BNY Mellon. Noam received a B.S. in Physics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.


Pavlo Denysiuk

Software Engineer


  • Pavlo is a Full Stack Developer on the Technology Team where he leads development on content management systems, crypto trading systems, and cloud-based solutions. Pavlo has over 14 years of software development experience across various industries, utilizing his Azure, AWS, C#, Angular, and SQL expertise. Prior to joining Outerlands, Pavlo was a software engineer at Shamaym, a publicly traded work-management technology platform, and a software developer at Rumble, a media platform acquired by BNY Mellon. Pavlo received a B.S. from Lutsk National Technical University with a focus in Automation of Management Production Processes.

Oksana Kucher

Quality Assurance Engineer


  • Oksana is a Quality Assurance Engineer on the Technology Team where she is responsible for test planning, test design and framework development, defect tracking and management, and test execution and maintenance. Oksana has over 14 years of experience as quality assurance and automation engineer. Prior to joining Outerlands, Oksana was a quality assurance engineer at Everstake, a blockchain infrastructure company running over 8,000 nodes for 70+ blockchain protocols, and EventSoft, a European outsourced software development company. Oksana received a B.S. in Information Technology from Lesya Ukraine National University.