Founder & CEO
Aethon
George Kailas is the Founder and CEO of Aethon Fund, a hedge fund that pairs proprietary market signal research with AI-powered trading discipline. A self-taught finance professional who landed his first hedge fund role at 17, George has spent two decades building predictive models across industries. At 25, he sold a mortgage prediction model to a $20 billion hedge fund and later beat a top-5 global bank on its own corporate bond book. He went on to found Prospero.ai in 2019, a retail investor intelligence platform with over 20,000 monthly active users. Since 2022, Prospero's forward-looking newsletter picks have outperformed the S&P 500 by 7.5x, reflecting years of signal refinement tested against a live investor base. Building on that same signal library, Aethon is the culmination of what George has spent his career focused on: identifying what quantitative models consistently miss and building signals to close the gaps, now with institutional capital behind them. He is also a Fellow at AI Circle, working alongside leaders from organizations including OpenAI, NVIDIA, Anthropic, Meta, Cohere, and Perplexity to advance responsible, high-impact AI.
George recently shared his views on AI’s role in investing in an interview with FundFire and on stage at the Greenwich Economic Forum.
