Thomas Stewart

Thomas Stewart is the Co-founder and CEO of Hadrius, an AI-driven financial compliance startup based in New York, New York. Founded in 2023 and backed by Y Combinator, the regulatory technology platform currently employs a staff of over 50 people and protects $5 trillion in assets under management across more than 500 financial institutions. Stewart leads the growing company alongside his co-founders, having raised over $27 million to automate complex regulatory compliance workflows for registered investment advisors and broker-dealers. Before launching Hadrius, he served as an AI engineer and subsequently founded Quantbase, a quantitative hedge fund that he scaled and successfully sold within its first year of operation. The University of Virginia graduate leverages his dual background in artificial intelligence and securities regulation to modernize trade surveillance and marketing review processes for the asset management sector.