Mona El Isa
Mona El Isa is the Founder and CEO of Avantgarde Finance, a digital-first crypto asset management firm. Mona is a former star trader at Goldman Sachs. She was promoted to Vice President by the age of 26 after profitably trading the 2008 and 2011 crashes. She went on to run a long-short equity fund for several years before becoming frustrated with the state of asset management infrastructure which led her towards conceptualizing Lemon, the first full-featured on-chain asset management protocol. Mona is also the Co-Founder of Enzyme, one of the industry's leading decentralized asset management protocols today.
Mona El Isa Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and CEO
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Founder
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Portfolio Manager
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Vice President of Equities Trading
Academic History
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Bachelors Degree, Economics and Statistics
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Founder and CEO, Avantgarde Finance
Founder and Board of Directors, MAMA
Board of Directors, NEAR Protocol
Board of Directors, Midas Technologies
Avantgarde Finance helps institutional investors, fund managers and DAOs access digital asset investments to unlock the full potential of crypto asset management.
Multichain Asset Managers Association represents everyone interested in working towards a new vision for asset management using blockchain and other supporting decentralized technologies.
Enzyme is a decentralized digital asset management protocol that builds, scales and monetizes an investment strategy that suits your needs.
RECOGNITIONS
2008 Trader Magazine's 30 Under 30
2011 Forbes' 30 Under 30
Nominee for Technology Pioneer, The World Economic Forum
Nominee for Digital Shaper, Bilanz
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Mona has been profiled in Blockworks and TechCrunch.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.