Prashant Lal is a partner at Hudson River Trading, a quantitative trading firm that actively participates in the world’s electronic financial markets.  Prashant started his career at Tower Research Capital, where he researched algorithms that forecast the short term price movement of financial products.

Prashant graduated from MIT with a degree in economics and lives in New York with his wife, Saira, and their two young daughters. He is also the creator and owner of a winery in New Jersey, Stokelan Winery, which grows and showcases wines from the region.