Sameer Soleja

Founder and CEO | Molecule

Sameer Soleja is the founder and CEO of Molecule, a Houston-based company that makes the world’s only modern risk software for commodities trading. Prior to founding Molecule in 2012, he spent a decade in consulting, working with SunGard, BearingPoint, and Stryve Advisors. Sameer holds MBA and Public Policy degrees from the University of Michigan, where he studied arcane capital markets theories and practices, such as sukuk and Turkish financial clearinghouses. He also holds a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Molecule is the modern cloud leader in the $1.5bn global CTRM/ETRM industry, serving retail energy, financial services, and investment funds nationwide from its headquarters in Houston. Thousands of transactions and tens of millions of dollars in notional value are processed every day on Molecule’s platform, from US power options, to Chinese chemical futures and everything in between. Molecule is growing rapidly, and boasts more cloud customers than most of its competitors combined.