Devon White
Behavioral engineer and senior leadership advisor. Co-founder of Neutheos, a systematic trading firm, and FIELD, a neurotechnology venture. Thirty years on how a human being becomes the version of themselves they keep almost being, and now on whether more of what organizes a living system can be made visible and measurable. With the physicist Prasanta Pal, he is working toward what they call the Age of Coherence.

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Devon White is a behavioral engineer and senior leadership advisor, and co-founder of Neutheos, a systematic trading firm, and FIELD, a neurotechnology venture.
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Devon White is a behavioral engineer. For thirty years he has worked on one question: why capable people run below what they’ve got, and what gets it back. He is co-founder and Co-CEO of Neutheos, a systematic trading firm, and co-founder of FIELD, a neurotechnology venture developed with physicist Prasanta Pal. Together, White and Pal are working toward what they call the Age of Coherence: making more of the organization inside complex living systems visible and measurable.
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Devon White is a behavioral engineer and senior leadership advisor. For thirty years he has worked on one question: how a person becomes the version of themselves they keep almost being. Not the inspirational version. The one that’s still there when the pressure arrives.
Most advice works on what to do. White works one layer down, on the person doing it: what happens to perception, judgment and behavior under load, and what makes more of those capacities available again.
He is co-founder and Co-CEO of Neutheos, a systematic trading firm, and co-founder of FIELD, a neurotechnology venture focused on biometric measurement, developed with physicist Prasanta Pal. Together, White and Pal are working toward what they call the Age of Coherence: an effort to make more of the organization inside complex living systems visible, measurable and eventually useful.
White writes Evolving Humanity, has spent fourteen years training in a somatic martial art, and is developing university courses on human self-use and AI in service of human flourishing.
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Speaking
- How to Use Yourself
- Why Sharp Leaders Make Dull Decisions
- Building Tech That Doesn’t Break People
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Ventures
- Neutheos — Systematic trading firm. Co-founded with Dr. Prasanta Pal; Cassandra Kelly is the firm’s third principal.
- FIELD — Neurotechnology, focused on measurement at nervous-system scale.