Kayvon Pirestani

Head of Institutional Sales, Asia at Coinbase

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Kayvon Pirestani is Coinbase’s head of institutional sales for the APAC region. His portfolio includes Coinbase Pro, Coinbase Custody and services such as OTC trading. Based in Coinbase’s Tokyo office, Kayvon leads the company’s institutional business for the entire Asia region.

Before joining Coinbase, Kayvon ran the Japan OTC equity derivatives sales desk for Morgan Stanley where he marketed structured volatility and synthetic equity products to global institutional investors. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Kayvon was at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong where he put together some of Asia’s largest-ever equity options transactions.

Kayvon received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Kayvon has been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013.