Arie Dahan, Angel Investor

Arie Dahan is an Experienced Portfolio Manager, blockchain angel investor, and problem solver with a proven ability to develop simple and complex investment strategies, lead and mentor teams, and continuously adapt to overcome new challenges. Deep expertise in Fixed Income, Equity, F/X, and Derivatives markets. Transitioning to blockchain and cryptocurrency markets to guide businesses on bridging the gap between traditional finance and the new emerging digital asset ecosystem, so they can successfully develop fintech protocols for highest use across many networks. • Angel Investor in several blockchain startups - Member of a team that evaluates every month around 10 companies across all verticals, and which use blockchain technology to implement their vision (DeFi, healthcare, gaming. supply chain, crypto accounting, and mining among others). • Finance Professor - Developed a keen interest in mentoring and sharing the investment knowledge I accumulated with my students, initially at Bentley University from 2008 until 2013, and now at Boston College where I have been teaching “Quantitative & Active Portfolio Management” graduate classes since 2017. • Investment Portfolio Manager with 25-yr experience investing across many asset classes (fixed income, foreign exchange, equity, credit, and commodities) for large Hedge Funds, Institutional Investors, and Asset Managers such as AIG Trading Group, Harvard Management Company, BlueCrest Capital, Frontlight Capital, and Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board. • Led and managed teams of 3-8 people and, together, structured Fixed Income, Credit, Equities, FX, and Commodities portfolios that delivered superior risk-adjusted returns (in excess of $450m) by focusing on an investment philosophy and an investment process that we, as a team, designed, learned from, stress-tested, and perfected for years. • Involved in all aspects of the investment management process: priced, structured, and managed the risk for simple and complex derivative portfolios across many asset classes, initially on the sell side before moving on to the buy side. Also created and implemented several asset allocation models for small and large institutions.