Kevin Kane is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of American Binary, a cybersecurity company founded in 2019 developing post-quantum network security technologies for government and commercial enterprises. A three-time deep tech founder and U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) veteran, he previously built and led an AI team that developed machine learning models subsequently used to manage $600 million of Rotella Capital Management’s $2 billion in assets under management.

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Under his leadership, American Binary developed Ambit Client, a platform that strictly uses cryptographic algorithms specified by the Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0 (CNSA 2.0) to protect data in transit across remote-access, cloud, and on-premises environments. American Binary's commercial focus is with networking technology companies and organizations in financial services, healthcare, and defense. Their focus is helping customers move from identifying where their networks are vulnerable to deploying post-quantum protection in the infrastructure they rely on today.

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Before founding American Binary, Kevin built and led businesses and investment teams applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to financial markets. As Chief Executive Officer of Claro Automata, he directed technology strategy and execution for systems using language models and sentiment analytics to support statistical arbitrage and portfolio optimization. Claro Automata’s team was subsequently acqui-hired by Rotella Capital Management, a CTA with a 21-year track record at the time. At Rotella, he built and led a team focused on AI and machine-learning-driven global futures statistical arbitrage, developing statistical trading strategies using sentiment analysis, satellite imagery, and other alternative data.

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Kevin also served as President and Co-Founder of Jumpgate Technologies, which developed machine-learning-driven strategies for U.S. equities, including market-neutral mean-reversion models. Working out of a coffee shop, he raised $39 million before live trading began. At Taurus Investment & Securities, he co-founded and built a four-person high-frequency trading desk focused on ultra-low-latency arbitrage in KOSPI 200 futures, executing hundreds of millions of dollars in notional trading volume and reaching 10% of market volume during a measured trading period.

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Earlier in his career, Kevin worked in emerging technology research and business development at Lux Research in South Korea, connecting corporate customers with research supporting technology investment and commercial decisions. As an oil market analyst at the Korea Energy Economics Institute, he conducted econometric and energy-market research covering petroleum markets, investment risk, electric vehicles, and electricity demand. His early experience included internships at McLarty Associates and The Carter Center, where his research supported Henry Kissinger and former President Jimmy Carter, respectively. In South Korea, he worked with North Korean defectors at The Daily NK.

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Kevin served in the U.S. Army from 1998 to 2005, holding noncommissioned officer responsibilities in the JAG Corps and international affairs offices. His assignments included the 101st Airborne Division, the 2nd Infantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army in Seoul, and the 3rd Infantry Division. He completed Air Assault School and served in both the United States and South Korea. His broader public-service experience includes running for the Georgia House of Representatives and advising Lean On Me, a peer-support organization associated with MIT.

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Kevin has published research and commentary on international economics, energy security, and Northeast Asian geopolitics, including energy research-and-development investment and the relationship between the 1988 Seoul Olympics and South Korea’s democratization. He holds a graduate degree from Seoul National University’s Graduate School of International Studies and speaks, reads, and writes Korean. Through his website, Almost Sentient, he presents more than a decade of original research exploring cognitive security, applied psychology, information warfare, game theory, great power politics, financial market dynamics, and the implications of emerging technologies for economic and national security.