Sagar Desai

Coinbase's institutional practice provides market-leading crypto asset trading solutions and custody to financial institutions, including sovereign asset owners, endowments, corporations, market makers, hedge funds, venture capital and private equity firms, and family offices.

I was afforded the additional responsibility of leading 6 institutional partners for a Monetary Authority of Singapore-awarded Proof-of-Concept product to tokenize private markets investment fund structures (i.e., blockchain-native securities offerings) using both public and private blockchain protocols. The PoC is part of the Financial Sector Technology and Innovation (FSTI) scheme under the Financial Sector Development Fund administered by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

InvestaX is a Singapore-headquartered FinTech platform for Digital Securities Offerings (DSOs) of global private markets deals, including private equity and real estate. Using Blockchain technology, we help our clients issue digital tokens of their private markets deals (i.e., DSOs), wherein each token represents proportional ownership in the deals. The DSOs are subsequently listed on our private markets exchange platform (under the Recognized Market Operator regime), removing the typical inefficiencies of raising capital and offering investors — for the first time ever — the ability to buy, sell, and trade their private market holdings on a secondary exchange.

I supported the chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs' Southeast Asia institutional investment management business for new business development and revenue generation efforts from sovereign wealth funds, pensions, and endowments in Singapore, Brunei, South Asia, Viet Nam, and Timor-Leste.

One of the 10 members globally (sole member in Asia) to be nominated to the Junior Advisory Board for Goldman Sachs' Investment Management Division (IMD).

Southeast Asia institutional business development (Goldman Sachs Asset Management)

First generation college student