A Teenager Enlisted for US’ Iraq Invasion: Now He’s a Crypto CIO

Nico Cordeiro works for a crypto hedge fund firm now. 

More specifically, he heads up Strix Leviathan’s trading strategies as the firm’s chief investment officer. Before that, he co-founded Makara, an SEC-registered so-called robo-advisor that went on to be acquired by Betterment. And prior to that, he worked for PitchBook. 

But before the switch to civilian life, Cordeiro spent more than half a decade in the US Army.

The Strix Leviathan trading head served in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2008 to 2015, a stretch that Cordeiro said felt…