Robert Douglas

Robert Douglas, From conquering corporate boardrooms to navigating uncharted waters, Douglas is a unique blend of leadership that transcends business, expeditions, and competitive sports.

Born in Manhattan with the New York hustle of relentless drive and ambition, his younger education was spent in Boston, MA where after new to the sport of swimming and being cut from finishing the season his sophomore year of high school he swam at Harvard in the morning and MIT in the evening before competing D1 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After further admission into the Kenan-Flagler business school he returned to his families home in Austin, TX to build financial instruments for Bitcoin eventually founding and selling an encrypted hardware device company for nearly eight figures.

His education in accounting and legal likely helped in later creation of the Texas State Securities Board sponsored Registered Investment Advisors Texas High Frequency to manage liquid portfolios and generate unique signals for traders using overlooked technology. His history in exploration sailing growing up, compounded with his competition in Austin Yacht Club regattas with timeless boats he’s collected such as Lasers from the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, had lead him to push the traditional limitations of seamanship. Douglas has hosted raftups larger than the legal limits through special coordination with the Miami Marine Patrol and Coast Guard, and even has the channel “Roberts Cut” named after him in the Miami Bay for the sonographing he made public for uncharted waters in the community.

Douglas was pulled from a personal project where he was working on tools to see through rock when he was recruited to DayTraders as their third founder.