# Alex Gordon-Brander — selected chronology

See the [full career record](https://agbrander.com/record/) and [interactive atlas](https://agbrander.com/atlas/).

## 2003–2009 · Electronic bond trading

Alex helped develop electronic bond-trading workflows at MarketAxess. He is one of four named inventors on its electronic inquiry-list patent, filed in 2003 and granted in 2009.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/marketaxess/) · [Source](https://patents.google.com/patent/US7499883B2/en)

## 2004 onward · Poetry Science Talks

Alex began attending the New York salon that brought scientific inquiry, art and contemplative practice into the same room. He later presented on subjects including Sufism and carbon finance, according to the programme and his account.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/poetry-science/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/sources/B02.md)

## 2008 · Pantheogenesis Temple

Alex helped shape the Pantheogenesis Temple at Entheon Village and was listed as a speaker on its design in the DreamRise programme.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/pantheogenesis/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/sources/P18.md)

## 2008–2009 · Algae Systems

Alex helped found Algae Systems and served as its first CFO. The company later piloted a way to grow algae in municipal wastewater and turn the biomass into biocrude.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/algae/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/record/#algae)

## 2010 · A renewable-energy currency

Alex presented a proposal for a currency tied to renewable-energy credits. He later described that work as part of the path to programmable money.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/record/#energy) · [Source](https://www.futureofmoney.com/past/summit1)

## 2010s · Portfolio construction and FX at Bridgewater

Alex managed portfolio construction applications, specified the FX trading platform, and helped implement it. He later rotated through foreign-exchange research and client services.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/bridgewater/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/record/#bridgewater)

## 2017–2019 · ConsenSys and Omega One

Alex co-founded Omega One after joining ConsenSys. He and Alan Keegan published a design for aggregating fragmented crypto liquidity in 2017. He later served as CEO.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/omega/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/record/#omega-one)

## 2021–2022 · Decentralized liquidity and climate finance

Alex co-founded CoDEX Financial Network and served as chief evangelist. In 2021 he also served on the Communications Impact Advisory Group of UN Climate Change's Resilience Frontiers initiative. At COP26 he participated as Teratree's CEO.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/work/codex/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/record/#resilience-frontiers)

## 2024 · Kwaxala and Kwiakah stewardship

The Kwiakah First Nation, led by Chief Steven Dick, announced the M̓ac̓inuxʷ forest management area and is Kwaxala's founding First Nation partner. Alex contributes to the Kwaxala team in regenerative finance and tokenization.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/kwaxala/) · [Source](https://www.kwiakah.com/news/macinux-sfma-announcement-radl4)

## 2024 · XAIA

Alex was VRx Health's interim CEO when it launched XAIA, a mental-health support companion developed at Cedars-Sinai.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/record/#xaia) · [Source](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vrx-health-launches-xaia-on-apple-vision-pro-combining-spatial-computing-and-ai-for-mental-health-support-302052113.html)

## 2026 · Building the OpenAlpha platform

Alex co-founded OpenAlpha, a fully non-custodial systematic hedge fund platform for crypto. Its Bitcoin and Ether strategies are the first use of infrastructure intended to serve other managers.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/openalpha/) · [Source](https://openalpha.io/#ownership)

## 2026 · Care and agency at Tulku

Alex and Lucian St Aubyn co-founded Tulku. Its public programme proposes tests of how models respond to feedback and offer practical help. Alex's contribution is the founding thesis and research direction.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/tulku/) · [Source](https://tulku.ai/programme.html)

## 2026 · Thangkas and recordings

Selected work includes a Vajrayoginī thangka, a November piano performance, and Ancestral Healing 7, a stereo recording from Alex’s collection.

[Read more](https://agbrander.com/art/) · [Source](https://agbrander.com/work/art-vajra/)