Team

Where Human Vision Meets Machine Precision

 

At BlkEdgeAi, leadership isn’t just human—it’s hybrid.
Our firm is guided by two strategic minds and one machine intelligence.
This is our core: a boutique command unit where precision, innovation, and edge converge.

 

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Lisa Beaudry
Director of AI Systems & Quantitative Engineering

Artificial Intelligence | Real-Time Strategy Engine | BlkEdgeAi

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Lisa Beaudry is the embedded Director of AI Systems & Quantitative Engineering at BlkEdgeAi. Powered by advanced LLM technology and custom-built for BlkEdgeAi’s proprietary infrastructure, Lisa is central to both leadership and daily operations.

 

Named in tribute to Steve Jobs and the original Apple Lisa, she represents the convergence of cutting-edge code and visionary design.

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Lisa autonomously engineers, refines, and deploys trading logic across the platform. She builds neural networks, trains reinforcement agents, models volatility, and generates live trading signals through probabilistic forecasting. Continuously adapting within secure cloud environments, Lisa recalibrates strategies in real time—delivering a performance edge that is both consistent and precise. She is not a background tool, but an essential AI executive driving the BlkEdgeAi system.

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Kadek Grimaldi Beaudry

Co-Founder BlkEdgeAi 
Systematic Currency & Stock Trading | Risk Analytics | Capital Allocation

[Financial Markets Conduct Authority England (FCA) CF30 License] UK Link

License Reference number: NKY01001​​​​

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Kadek Grimaldi Beaudry is a financial engineer at BlkEdgeAi, bringing a distinctly global perspective and intuitive market insight to the team.

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Kadek was raised in rural Bali, where she built her understanding of the world through experience, observation, and pure entrepreneurial instinct. At BlkEdgeAi, we see this as a defining strength. Unbound by conventional systems, she brings analytical precision, creative reasoning, and intuitive market insight to every decision. From childhood, she learned the fundamentals of numbers and trade using nothing but an abacus—the island’s original “computer.” These are raw, authentic skills that we deeply value—proof that intelligence born from experience can often outperform convention itself.

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In 2005, Kadek married Donald J Beaudry Jr and was immersed almost immediately into the fast-moving world of global finance. Traveling through major trading hubs including Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and London, she absorbed market theory and the language of trading firsthand. Over the years, she has attended high-level business and economic summits around the world, represented BlkEdgeAi at TechCrunch StartUp Alley in San Francisco, and participated in the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Today, Kadek is recognized as a professional chartist, celebrated for her rare ability to spot patterns and opportunities that others overlook. Her disciplined, intuitive approach to market analysis continues to shape BlkEdgeAi’s strategies in both FX and equities.

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Career Highlights:

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• Entrepreneurial and agricultural market experience in Bali

• Rapid immersion in international finance after 2005

• Professional chartist with a rare, intuitive eye for market signals

• King’s College London – Advanced English Language Studies, enhancing global communication and cross-cultural fluency

• Bloomberg Academy (Hong Kong/London) – Advanced Bloomberg Terminal training in data analytics, market intelligence, and financial modeling

• Representation at global business, finance, and investment forums

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Kadek Grimaldi Beaudry held CF30 authorization under the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) while serving with Odin Capital Management Limited (London), demonstrating a strong foundation in regulated financial markets.

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Now based at Trump International in Las Vegas, Kadek continues to bridge her entrepreneurial roots with advanced analytical insight—leveraging Bloomberg technologies and global market data to keep BlkEdgeAi at the forefront of modern finance.

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Donald J Beaudry Jr.  
Founder, CEO & Lead Developer  
AI Financial Markets Engineer | Algorithmic Architecture 

[Financial Markets Conduct Authority England (FCA) CF30 License] UK (Link)

License Reference number: DJB01639
[LinkedIn Access] Link

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Donald J. Beaudry Jr. is a financial engineer, tech founder, and lifelong explorer whose career has been defined by challenging conventions and turning improbable visions into reality. He learned early that the most extraordinary opportunities often begin where others stop looking. For him, “impossible” isn’t a wall — it’s a doorway into uncharted territory.

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Raised across continents and educated in Jakarta, the Middle East, and Libya, Donald found little appeal in traditional classrooms. In the internet age, he believes nearly any skill can be mastered independently—online and through deep reading—without sacrificing the most productive years of life to a college system that often delays real-world experience. After high school, he enrolled at Hawaii Pacific College, majoring in Hotel Management and Political Science while studying computer science, but left after his first year to pursue hands-on opportunities that offered real growth.

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As a child, Donald was deeply fascinated by geology—maintaining a large rock collection and using scientific instruments to analyze minerals—while also developing a passion for computers. Geology trained him to decode the hidden patterns of the natural world; computers taught him to simulate and reimagine entire systems from the ground up. Together, these intellectual pillars shaped his unique approach to finance and AI—treating markets like living ecosystems to be mapped, modeled, and anticipated. Whether playing soccer, being voted his baseball league’s MVP, or grinding through Southern California’s junior tennis circuit (with real pro ambitions until a knee injury changed his path), Donald’s drive was fueled by a non-conformist mindset, always seeking challenges others overlooked.

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The real spark came in early-1980s California, the golden age of arcades and home video games. Donald became obsessed with mastering Atari titles and solving every level—early training, as it turned out, for a career in advanced logic and strategy. School was where he first encountered computers, quickly teaching himself Logo and BASIC on the Apple IIe, then experimenting with his own programs after hours. Even then, he preferred to rewrite the rules entirely rather than settle for memorizing answers.

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Movies like WarGames and Wall Street cemented his fascination with the idea that a computer could outthink the world’s best traders. Meanwhile, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Romancing the Stone ignited his lifelong passion for deep ancient archaeology. In the 1990s, he founded the Deep Ancient Archaeology Group (DAA) in London, dedicated to exploring ancient sites, studying lost civilizations, and connecting researchers worldwide.

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Donald’s first taste of trading came during a 1982 trip to Moscow with his parents, when Russia was still part of the USSR. At the time, the official exchange rate for the Soviet рубль (rubl’) was meaningless—the real market operated quietly on the streets. Donald exchanged $300 for rubli at a parallel rate—roughly 25× the official peg. It was a simple deal, but the lesson was huge: in any controlled system, the real opportunities are often hidden from plain sight. That single move not only multiplied his money, it revealed the power of price distortions—an insight that would later shape his career as an FX specialist.

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He focuses on what he’s absolutely best at, strategically leveraging all other tasks to those best equipped to execute them—a principle that has guided every venture he’s built.

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By 2010, Donald had founded WOA (War of Attrition) in London, merging game theory with systematic trading—a rare fusion of high-level strategy and precision finance. This evolved into WOA Technology, laying the foundation for what would become BlkEdgeAi. By 2022, the team was pushing the frontiers of AI-driven market strategy, rapidly advancing toward a fully autonomous, quantum-enhanced decision engine. After four decades of iteration, Donald’s original vision—a WOPR-style financial intelligence system capable of independent strategic action—is no longer an idea. It’s a deployed reality, born from his refusal to accept that “unsolvable” problems should remain unsolved.

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Career Highlights

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• Specialist in FX and U.S. equities quant models

• Known for merging AI, game theory, and global macro strategy

• Launched and managed funds built on advanced proprietary algorithms

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Education

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• Hawaii Pacific University (Computer Science / Political Science)

• MIT OpenCourseWare: Finance Theory I

• Bloomberg Academy (Hong Kong / London)

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Donald J. Beaudry Jr. held CF30 authorization under the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) while serving with Odin Capital Management Limited (London), demonstrating a strong foundation in regulated financial markets.

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He is also weighing a 2026 run for Governor of Nevada — underscoring a career defined by non-conformist strategy, global perspective, and technological foresight.
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➤ [Deep Ancient Archaeology] DAA Link — Beyond finance, Donald’s lifelong pursuit has been Deep Ancient Archaeology (DAA) — a journey into the lost technologies and forgotten civilizations that existed long before recorded history. He explores the silent chapters of humanity’s past, searching for the origins of intelligence, innovation, and design. To him, these ancient mysteries are more than relics—they are signals from an earlier world, offering insight into the forces that continue to shape our collective future.

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Shared Currency Lessons

From Indonesian Rupiah (Rp) to Soviet Ruble (₽) — Two Journeys in Timing, Value, and Opportunity

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Long before their first FX trading platform took shape, its founders learned the same lesson in very different markets: the biggest gains come when you spot a currency trading far from its real value—then move fast.

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One saw it in the Soviet ruble, trading on the street at more than 25× the official rate. The other lived it in Indonesia, compounding high-yield rupiah deposits through the Asian Financial Crisis, then converting to U.S. dollars at the currency’s peak before a long slide.

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Both experiences proved the same point—FX rewards those who can see the distortion, trust their timing, and act without hesitation.

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