Caroline Ellison (born 1994) is an American business executive. She is the CEO of Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. According to an anonymous source cited by the Wall Street Journal in November 2022, Alameda Research owed $10 billion to cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The source said FTX had lent the trading firm money from customer funds at FTX. Early life and education Ellison is the daughter of Glenn Ellison, the Gregory K. Palm (1970) Professor of Economics at MIT, who coached her math team as a middle schooler, and Sara Fisher Ellison, also an economist at MIT. She grew up in the Boston suburbs. As a high school student, she attended Newton North High School and represented the US in the 2011 International Linguistics Olympiad. Ellison graduated from Stanford University in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. Career After graduation, Ellison worked for the quantitative trading firm Jane Street where she met Sam Bankman-Fried. Ellison spent 19 months as a junior trader at Jane Street. She...