The people and advisory mandates behind Dolphin Trade Pro

Julian V. Sterling is a Wall Street economist and quantitative hedge-fund pioneer who advises Dolphin Trade Pro as its Global Strategic Advisor and Chief Macro Strategist. He is also an invited Senior Research Fellow in Behavioural Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business and Chief Investment Officer of Sterling-Cross Family Office & Associates.

He holds a PhD in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA from the Wharton School. Across a Wall Street career of almost three decades he served as a core risk officer in the Fixed Income Division of Goldman Sachs and as a Managing Director in Morgan Stanley's Asia-Pacific and emerging-markets multi-asset strategy group. He led institutional mandates in the tens of billions of dollars through both the 2000 dot-com collapse and the 2008 subprime crisis, and his record of anticipating black-swan events earned him the industry nickname “Wall Street's number-one downside risk controller”.

Since stepping back from the bulge-bracket trading floor, Professor Sterling has worked on combining behavioural finance with leading AI algorithms. He is also a fiduciary to several private family offices and university endowments and is bound by US Securities and Exchange Commission anti-front-running rules and by confidentiality agreements; he therefore maintains a deliberately minimal public digital footprint, and his research circulates inside top-tier Wall Street institutions and reaches the platform as private-label whitepapers.

His mandate covers the macroeconomic framework and the risk-overlay logic applied to the platform's signal engine: market-regime analysis, drawdown and tail-risk controls, and the translation of behavioural-finance research into the rule-based allocation parameters used by the product team. He is responsible for the top-level macro logic behind the platform's AI signal streams, and he brings an institutional-grade investment perspective to retail investors. The engagement is delivered through Sterling-Cross Family Office & Associates under a private consulting agreement. Mr. Sterling does not participate in client onboarding, order handling, client fund custody or the solicitation of investors.

Chloe Chen is Dolphin Trade Pro's Principal Operational Liaison for clearing and compliance and heads the platform's global clearing and compliance execution. She is also Chief Operating Officer and partner at Sterling-Cross Family Office & Associates.

She comes from a financial family and holds a Master of Science in Financial Engineering from Columbia University, having graduated with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley with a double bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and economics. Before joining Professor Sterling's team she worked as an asset analyst in the Blackstone asset-management group and then spent several years in risk management at BlackRock, where she was part of the core operations group for Aladdin, the firm's risk-control system. That work gave her a detailed grounding in the underlying trade logic and global compliance architecture of large securities platforms.

Within the Dolphin Trade Pro team she holds the “execution brain” role: she is responsible for turning Professor Sterling's top-level macro strategy into executable production code, and for personally supervising the platform's API integration with Alpaca Securities LLC. Her remit covers Broker API integration management, pre-trade control design, order-routing controls, reconciliation procedures, exception handling, records retention and internal control review.

Ms. Chen and her compliance team are responsible for keeping every trade — and every fractional-share movement — on the platform inside the US Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA framework. Securities brokerage services, order execution, clearing and custody are provided by Alpaca Securities LLC; her team owns the operational interface on the platform side and acts as the point of contact for compliance and regulatory questions relating to the integration.