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Craig Gile is a Founder and President of Arteria Technology.  Created at Stanford University and funded by the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Arteria’s first product, CoolMitt®, is proven to be the best technology to reduce core temperature.  CoolMitt is currently being used by over 100 professional and collegiate programs, as well as numerous Special Forces, First Responders and Industrial Athlete organizations and companies.

Craig has experience in a number of alternative investments, including as Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Black Falcon Capital Management, a Global Macro hedge fund.  Craig was a Managing Director at Citigroup, where he was a Bond Trader and served as the Head of the Americas for the Commodity Derivatives division.  Prior to heading to Wall Street, Craig served as a Naval Aviator in the US Navy.

Craig received his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in Finance with a Concentration in Strategic Management.  He received a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University.