JOURNEY
Experience
2018 - 2022
Head of Trading
Koi Trading
San Francisco / Shanghai
Koi Trading is an OTC trading desk that connects global cryptocurrency markets. Koi aims to be a compliant global option for private cryptocurrency liquidity. Koi also offers assistance with data science, quantitative research, and compliance consulting work.
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In 2018, Koi Trading closed the angel round with an investment of $3 Million USD from Binance labs, the investment arm of the world's largest crypto exchange.
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2020 - Present
Limited Partner
Race Capital
San Francisco
Race Capital (https://race.capital/) is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Race Capital is focused on enterprise computing including data infrastructure, collaboration, open-source, privacy, security, automation, and fintech Infrastructure.
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Race Capital closed its latest round in 2021 and now managing over $100 Million USD.
2020 - Present
Partner & Advisor
Paretone Capital
San Francisco
Paretone Capital (https://paretonecapital.com/) is a quantitative proprietary trading firm headquartered in California, United States since 2015. Its management team includes investment and financial veterans, experienced analysts, and trading professionals.
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2017 - 2018
Founding Member
Huobi US
San Francisco
Huobi (Huobi.com) is a global blockchain asset financial services provider including exchange, trade, wallet, and storage. Huobi has over 1500 employees worldwide and it has been the largest crypto exchange in China since 2013.
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I joined Huobi's US office as one of the three founding employees of the US branch and left to start Koi after the main product launch.
2018-2021
Angel Investor
Solana Labs
San Francisco
Solana (Solana.com), a Web-Scale Blockchain. Solana is providing Layer-1 infrastructure for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps, and decentralized finance.
Solana has grown exponentially in the years 2020 and 2021. The network has become the sixth most valuable crypto project in the world and is currently valued at over $60 Billion USD. I was blessed to be one of the first investors along with 500 Startups back in early 2018.
Life
2007-Present
Basketball Enthusiasts
Ball is life
Besides working and investing, I'm a huge basketball fan. I played for my high school team and in college. However, in early 2020 during a game, I tore my ACL on my right knee and went through an ACL reconstruction surgery. I had to stop playing
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Despite the hardship of a year-long rehab, I'm blessed that I'm able to be on the court again with 100%.
Honors
Executive Committee Member
Vice President 2017