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Randy Little is a Partner of 1RT and 10T with 25+ years of experience in roles at the intersection of finance and technology. He also currently serves as the CEO of 1RT and 10T portfolio company, Zenrock Labs. From 2018 to 2023, Mr. Little served as Managing Director at Financial Technology Partners (“FT Partners”), the largest investment bank solely focused on FinTech globally. He exclusively focused on the Digital Asset and Capital Markets FinTech sectors, advising dozens of clients and institutional blockchain infrastructure companies.
Mr. Little entered investment banking in 2006 at J.P. Morgan in the Financial Institutions Group focused on the Market Structure and WealthTech sectors. He was an early leader in advising the quantitative trading sector leading to several landmark transactions in the market-making space as well as executing public and private deals for exchanges, broker-dealers, trading technology, and WealthTech firms.
Before joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Little was a Software Architect at Sun Microsystems with a focus on optimizing hardware and software for low-latency environments in the financial services sector. He also served as a Senior Consultant for Ernst & Young Consulting, where he led software development projects for large-cap financial services and U.S. government clients.
Mr. Little earned an MBA from NYU Stern in 2005, where he graduated as a Stern Scholar, and received a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Wake Forest University in 1997.