Strategies To Outperform The Crypto Wave: Self vs Professionally Managed

Sunil Kaushik

Senior Principal of Business Development, Gemini Asia Pacific

Sunil Kaushik is the senior principal of Business Development at Gemini Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. Day to day, Sunil oversees business development and partnership efforts in the region, building out customized solutions for institutions and high net worth clients seeking a regulated and secure partner to allocate funds to digital assets.

Prior to joining Gemini, Sunil spent over a decade at Barclays as the director and head of Asia Pacific commodities and later as the director of macro sales. With nearly 2 decades of experience in premier global financial institutions including Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, Sunil has built successful teams and businesses. He has also cultivated enduring relationships with an internationally diverse set of senior clients, working with asset managers, large corporate clients, pensions funds and hedge funds.

Jon Deane

CEO and Managing Director, Trovio Group

Jon is the CEO and Managing Director of the Trovio Group. Trovio, founded in 2017, is an established digital asset manager and advisory firm in Asia Pacific, providing services under the TCM brand. Trovio also delivers a platform as a service solution for the commodities industry, providing tokenization and digital registries services. Jon currently also sits on the Digital Finance CRC Board, a Australian Federal Government funded research centre into the commercialisation of the future digital economy.

Prior to joining Trovio, he was the Managing Director and Head of Asia Commodities Trading for JP Morgan based in Singapore and a Board member of JPM Ventures Energy Pte Ltd. Prior to this, Jon was based in London, as Managing Director of a vanilla and exotic derivatives trading business for just under a decade, with a team based in New York, Singapore and London. 

Thomas Chladek

Head of Switzerland, EQONEX

Thomas Chaldek is EQONEX’s Head of Switzerland and Portfolio Manager of Bletchley Park Multi Strategy Fund a crypto fund of hedge funds launched in November 2019. Thomas brings almost two decades of hedge fund investment management experience to the group.

Prior to joining EQONEX, Thomas he was Head of Alternative Solutions Group at Lombard Odier, one of Switzerland’s largest private banks and a pioneer in hedge fund investing, where he was responsible for a team of analysts and portfolio managers that ran research across strategies, regions, and fund types.

Thomas has also previously held roles at Calibria, J.P. Morgan’s Geneva hedge fund advisory spinout, and Bucephale Investment Management.

He is a regular speaker at industry conferences and contributor to the business press. Thomas is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and FRM charter holder and holds an M.S. in Economics from Geneva University.

Oi-Yee Choo

Chief Executive Officer at ADDX, Moderator

Oi Yee has more than 20 years of experience in the investment and banking industry, and is the Chief Executive Officer of ADDX. Formerly Chief Commercial Officer, she was responsible for driving business growth through fostering an extensive network of investors and corporate partners. Prior to ADDX, Oi Yee held leadership roles in investment banking as the Head of Investment Banking (Singapore) at UBS and prior to that, Morgan Stanley.