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Jack Carlisle is the Director of Credit at BlockTower Capital's Credit Fund, where he co-leads the firm's investment activities. Jack is focused on specialty finance solutions for non-traditional lenders and loan purchase agreements. Previously, Jack worked at Hildene Capital Management, where he was a Senior Investment Analyst. At Hildene, Jack covered primary and secondary trading for the firm's positions in asset-backed securities, legacy collateralized debt obligations, and mortgage-backed securities.
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Kevin Miao
Kevin Miao is the General Partner, Head Of Credit at BlockTower. Presively he worked at Citi.He graduated from Harvard Business School.
Rahul Rai
Rahul Rai was previously the co-founder of Gamma Point Capital, Co-Head of Market Neutral at BlockTower Capital.
Avi Felman
Avi Felman is a former general partner at GoldenChain and head of digital asset trading at Goldentree, and previously worked at BlockTower Capital, Wave Financial, and was co-founder of Ledger Capital.
Sanat Rao
Sanat Rao is a former general Partner at BlockTower Capital.
Ryan Silva
Ryan Silva is the Head of Trading at BlockTower Capital. Previously, he was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Celsius, where he led global CeFi Trading and Market Insights teams. Before entering the digital asset space, Ryan was a Portfolio Manager at KLS Diversified, a multi-billion-dollar global macro and fixed income relative value hedge fund in NYC. Ryan has extensive experience in traditional capital markets, having worked at RBS Greenwich Capital and Merrill Lynch & Co. Ryan is a CFA Charterholder, holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Northeastern University, and is an advocate for empowering people with disabilities to participate in athletics.
Matthew Goetz
Matthew Goetz is the Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer at cryptoasset investment firm BlockTower Capital. In 2006, Goetz began his career as an engineer at Sargent & Lundy. He spent the next 11 years working at Goldman Sachs, where he attained the position of Vice President. Goetz left Goldman Sachs in 2017 to start BlockTower Capital alongside Ari Paul.
Ari Paul
Ari Paul is the CIO of cryptocurrency hedge fund BlockTower Capital. Prior to his time in the crypto space, Paul was a portfolio manager for the University of Chicago's endowment, as well as a derivatives trader. He is interviewed about his views on crypto regularly by publications like BusinessInsider and Forbes.
Steve Lee
Investor at BlockTower Capital; Formerly Portfolio Manager, Trader at Goldman Sachs; Engineering at University of Illinois; Japan, Korea, US, Singapore; Trilingual. Having been raised, educated, and working in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Singapore and grown trilingual, Steve has worked as a investment director and Head of Asia in BlockTower Capital to contribute to the firm's global investment in cryptoasset and blockchain industry and lead its Asia business. Before BlockTower Capital, Steve worked as front, middle, back office roles in Tokyo and Singapore with Goldman Sachs. Before his career in financial industry, Steve worked as a research engineer in the U.S. working with U.S. government and world's leading semiconductor companies after he majored in Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Thomas Klocanas
Thomas Klocanas is the General Partner & Head of Venture at BlockTower Capital. Columbia MBA, Columbia FinTech former co-president, HEC Paris MiM / Grande Ecole and Bocconi BSc.
Winnie Lau
Winnie Lau is the Vice President at BlockTower. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University Business School.