J.E. Moody & Company LLC

Few people have chaired NeurIPS, the premier machine-learning conference, and run a commodity hedge fund at the same time. John Moody has done both. A physics PhD and former computer science professor, he founded JEM in 2001 and wired his own ML research lineage, neural networks included, straight into its trading systems, making it one of the earliest quant CTAs built on academic machine learning rather than econometrics.

From Portland, Oregon, the firm runs systematic global futures across commodities, FX, and managed futures, open only to institutions, non-US residents, and US qualified eligible persons. It took the 2021 HFM US Quant Award for Best Diversified CTA and the 2018 award for Best Quantitative Strategy under a billion dollars, with HFM nominations every year from 2018 through 2025.