I’m Brian Devens, founding partner and Managing Director of SkySail Strategies. My journey began in 2008 during the financial crisis, when I set out to understand how markets really worked. After graduating from Virginia Tech with a degree in Systems Engineering—armed with math, modeling, and coding skills—I dove into professional trading. I found success, but I also discovered the truth: day trading was unsustainable, and traditional investing paths like 401(k)s and financial advisors were even worse—slow, rigged systems designed to benefit Wall Street, not investors.

That’s when I turned to quantitative finance. Working alongside eight- and nine-figure mentors, I began developing algorithms that could exploit structural inefficiencies and compound profits in ways ordinary investors never see. My systems weren’t bound to whether the market was up or down—they thrived on the fractal patterns inside every move. Instead of waiting years for a 10% return, we engineered ways to compound dozens of smaller gains into exponential growth.

Today, SkySail Strategies is a multinational, multidisciplinary team with offices in the US and Europe. For years, our work was reserved for institutions and elite investors. But now—for the first time—we’re opening access to our institutional-grade algorithms for a broader audience. Because the truth is, you don’t need to be chained to a screen or accept Wall Street’s rigged game. You need systems designed to compound at the highest possible rate in any market—and that’s exactly what we’ve built.