About Us
Since 2021, we’ve been committed to growing the FinTech community on campus.
Our Story
The FinTech Club at Virginia Tech was founded in 2021. The founding team – Jack Thompson, Ruben Mosley, Dawson Xiao, Parth Patel, Adam Gladfelter, and Adam McMarrow – saw an opportunity to bring fellow FinTech majors and enthusiasts together, which aligned with the at the time newly minted FinTech & Big Data Analytics major.
Since then, the club has grown to over 90+ active members from a diverse set of majors, even beyond the FinTech major. Through social events, professional development workshops, and project work, the club strives to provide both professional and social opportunities for students to grow.
What We’ve Achieved
Grown to 90+ active members from majors across FinTech, Computer Science, CMDA, and beyond
Run faculty-supervised research pods contributing to active academic working papers in entrepreneurial finance and M&A, including analysis of 3,000+ SEC crowdfunding filings using Python, RAG pipelines, and machine learning
Led student-run market pods on real estate, commodities, prediction markets, and options sentiment, each producing a report, presentation, and code repository
Hosted 15+ speaker and networking events with professionals from firms including Citi, Evercore, Tradeweb, Elequin Capital, and CapTech
Coordinated annual Hokies on Wall Street treks to New York, visiting firms including Morgan Stanley, Evercore, Citi, Elequin Capital, Tradeweb, and Bridgeport across banking, markets, and trading
Hosted joint events with CS Careers and other Virginia Tech organizations, plus recurring poker nights and socials
