Mona El Isa
Mona El Isa is the CEO and Founder of Avantgarde Finance Ltd. Her experience starting her own hedge fund led her to build decentralized investment vehicles on the Ethereum blockchain. She started her career on a trading floor at Goldman Sachs, market making and trading equities. Later on, this former star-trader was promoted to Vice President by the age of 26 and made the “top 30 under 30” list in Trader Magazine in 2008 and Forbes Magazine in 2011 after profitably trading the 2008 and 2011 crashes.
Mona El Isa Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and CEO
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Vice President, Equities Trading
Academic History
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Bachelors Degree, Economics and Statistics
Mona El Isa thinks that decentralized finance (DeFi) will lower barriers to entry for those looking to get into the hedge fund space.
She thinks that DeFi investments can be viewed as an entirely new form of diversification—a hedge for traditional centralized investments.