Raphael KOBI
Founder & CEO
Raphael Kobi is a 20-year Capital Markets veteran with a strong background in Trading & Analytics, Cloud, AI, and Architecture. He has developed robust market portals for institutional clients exceeding 200,000, constructed electronic trading venues and strategic data fabric, spearheaded joint incubation & co-development ventures, integrated startups into established organizations, and successfully spun-out cutting-edge technologies.
Raphael's mission is to revolutionize businesses across diverse industries through meticulously crafted, cost-effective technology transformation strategies that yield exceptional returns. He is an innovative leader with a proven track record of success in disruptive innovations and strategic partnerships.
Some of Raphael's notable accomplishments include:
- Transforming Citi's flagship Structured Credit Trade Execution & Data Analytics project, Octopus, into Octaura Holdings—an industry consortium that gained rapid traction.
- Steering the incubation of Citi Venture's Green Assets as a Service initiatives in close collaboration with Microsoft.
- Constructing a global risk and market data system spanning all fixed income asset classes and commodities.
- Propelling Citi Velocity to its position as the premier Institutional Portal for Analytics.
- Developing Bridgewater Associates' innovative risk budget tool, enabling clients to model portfolios against various economic scenarios.
Raphael is the founder of PortalOS.ai, where he has assembled an amazing team of technology experts dedicated to bringing the best institutional enterprise portal experience to the market. He is a devout Christian and a family man.