Leadership & Team

“Under Hardeep’s leadership, Cognivo guided us through a major transition and our enhanced platform now saves tens of hours every month.”
– Paul Nealon, Co-Founder, Resolute Global Partners

Hardeep Mehta – Founder, Cognivo

With over twenty years on Wall Street, Hardeep has built and led data and trading platforms at some of the industry’s most demanding firms.

  • At Bridgewater Associates, he led investment infrastructure initiatives for core research and risk teams, supporting the scale-up of the firm’s proprietary data platform.
  • At Morgan Stanley, he directed capital markets data systems for structured products, risk oversight, and global trading platforms.
  • At Interactive Brokers, he spent more than a decade designing and scaling execution, portfolio, and market infrastructure systems across 30+ global markets.

Today, as founder of Cognivo, Hardeep works directly with investment firm leaders to turn fragmented systems into execution-ready platforms that support alpha generation, risk oversight, and operational scale.

Specialized Network

Senior Execution Partners

  • Curated bench of senior specialists with pedigrees across hedge funds, multi-PM platforms, private equity, and family offices.
  • Founder-led governance: single-threaded ownership and accountability for delivery.
  • Vetted, NDA-bound contributors with conflict checks before every engagement.
  • Capacity on demand without compromising institutional-grade quality.
  • Continuity plan: documented runbooks, client code/IP ownership, and structured knowledge transfer.
  • E&O insured.