A. Derar Islim

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About A. Derar Islim

Derar Islim, PhD is a seasoned financial executive with significant experience in the digital asset industry, building and managing premier digital assets financial services and products globally. Islim’s career reflects a blend of academic rigor and practical experience in high-stakes financial environments. Derar’s leadership at Genesis, particularly during its crisis, showcased his ability to navigate complex operational and financial challenges from both execution and governance perspectives. Derar formerly held the roles of Interim CEO and COO at Genesis, and prior to that the position of Head of Risk at Hard Yaka and has an established track record of leading at the forefront of modern financial markets. Early in his career, he served as a senior trader at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he co-managed the Funding Valuation Adjustment (FVA) trading desk, and worked on modeling, pricing and hedging credit structured products. Derar holds a PhD. in Financial Mathematics from Florida State University with a focus on financial derivatives and applied partial differential equations. Derar is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, alongside other academic and professional awards.