Leo Mizuhara is the Founder and CEO of Hashnote, an institutional DeFi asset management company. Before joining Web3 space, Leo ran Systematic Trading for FICC Options at DRW for five years overseeing over 40 traders, software engineers, and researchers. He also worked for 12 years at Bank of America as a managing director and senior portfolio manager in the Corporate Investments Group in New York. Leo has experience with managing fixed-income securities and derivatives exposures on the bank balance sheet. He is an expert on Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, blockchain, DeFi, digital finance, and Web 3.0