Our Story
We are building the next generation of institutional OTC trading that is powered by conversation and automated with AI.
Paradigm was born out of our own frustrations with the institutional OTC trading process. After spending hundreds of hours trading and navigating the inefficient, multi-channel nature of traditional OTC markets, we thought to ourselves: “there has to be a better way.”
Paradigm is that better way.
Paradigm is backed by Dragonfly Capital, Digital Currency Group, OKEx Ventures, Bybit Fintech, Alameda Ventures (FTX), Vectr Fintech Partners, CoinShares, XBTO Ventures, Monex Group, Yleana Venture Partners and some of the most influential private investors in the OTC markets.
We are headquartered in New York City.
Team
Anand Gomes
Co-founder
6+ years in OTC derivatives sales and trading roles across Rates and Commodities at KeyBank
Sharaf Nassar
Co-founder and CTO
8+ years building fast, real-time web-apps at Neurotrack and Cisco
Michal Koonin
Head of Sales and Trading
9+ years in options market-making roles across Commodities and Indices at Wolverine Trading
Guillermo Lunar
Full Stack Engineer
William Watkins
Head of QA
Ivan Mornar
Senior Frontend Engineer
Valters Grisans
Master Pixelator
Jameel Al-Aziz
Staff Software Engineer
Jing Tan
Relationship Manager (China)
Manu Kumar
QA Automation Engineer
Darko Gjorgoski
Frontend Engineer
Advisors
Larry Ng
Co-founder, TradeWeb
Founding Partner, MarketAxess
Krishan Singh
Ex CEO, Noble Markets
Ex-Global Head, Bonds and CDS Execution at ICE
Etienne Brunet
Ex Head of Venture at Elwood
Ex Illuminate Financial
In crypto since '13
Jeff Maron
Head of New Ventures, IHS Markit
Ex-Head of Trading Systems, GFI
Jason Best
Partner, Vectr Ventures
Co-authored JOBS Act crowdfunding framework
David Sylvan
MD, UH Ventures
Ex-Head of Derivatives, KeyBank
Stephanie Feldt
Chief Compliance Officer at Trading.com Markets
Ex-VP Compliance, Barclays
Avish Bhama
CEO, Sonia Labs
Traded 75,000+ in BTC at Vaurum
