
He helped build an early institutional crypto trading desk, left Genesis in 2021, and returned to lending with VersiFi. His next argument was about the rules that let people trade with confidence.

A distressed-debt trader walked into cybersecurity and found a market where the price was panic. His answer was data, practice and a stubborn preference for paying nothing.
Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) is an independent, New York-based financial technology and broker-dealer company that runs a marketplace for trading shares of private, pre-IPO companies. Through its SecondMarket platform, NPM helps startups, employees, shareholders, and institutional investors find liquidity before an exit - via tender offers, auctions, block trades, and custom company marketplaces - while bringing price discovery, data, and settlement infrastructure to a notoriously opaque corner of finance.