Gabriel Olasa — Elmhurst, Illinois.
About
About Gabriel
Gabriel Olasa is a finance-focused student in the Chicagoland area building experience across markets, business, economics, and leadership.
He founded and leads the EIAA Junior Board and is an Analyst with Lamplight Alternative Funds (LAF), while also serving on the Executive Board of Project Iris within York's Corporate Finance Club, supporting community outreach and strategic partnerships. He contributes to the Junior Economic Club of Chicago's Investment Team, and has completed a finance research and AI-automation internship with Han Insights and an accounting and business-operations internship with Rosati's. He has shadowed institutional and family-office investment professionals at Fiducient Advisors and Gresham Partners, spent time with senior traders at Wolverine — including the Cboe trading floor — participated in the University of Chicago's Young Innovators Program, and supported operations at The Joint Chiropractic.
Outside of these commitments, he caddies at River Forest Country Club, competes as a varsity wrestling starter, supports social media marketing for a local physical therapy clinic, completed a business and entrepreneurship program through the College of DuPage's Youth Academy, and has completed more than 100 hours of community service across healthcare, nonprofit, and community organizations, including hospital volunteering and service work through the EIAA Junior Board. This site serves as his professional profile while he's too young for LinkedIn — built to bring his experience, projects, and coursework into one place.
At Cboe, after time on the trading floor observing SPX options activity.
At Wolverine, after a conversation about ETF mechanics.
At CME Group's Chicago office.
University of Chicago Young Innovators Program — completion certificate.
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How He Thinks About It
A few questions keep coming up across very different settings: how markets actually function once you look past a chart, why a number that looks right is still worth checking, and what it takes to build something — a system, a board, a piece of writing — that holds up under scrutiny. Those questions show up in an internship, an industry-exposure visit, and an independent coding project alike, not because they were planned to connect, but because they kept coming up on their own.
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FinanceMarketsBusinessEconomicsEntrepreneurshipLeadershipAthleticsTechnology
At a Glance
- School
- York Community High School
- Class Year
- Class of 2029
- Location
- Chicagoland, Illinois
- Standing
- High Honor Roll
Open to Connecting
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