Gordon Grant graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in economics, magna cum laude, and a concentration in financial mathematics, econometrics and game theory.   As director of derivatives and portfolio manager at New World Investment Management, a New York-based hedge fund, he oversaw a significant portion of the firm’s $5billion in assets and developed novel volatility-centric strategies for trading and investments in G10 and emerging market foreign exchange, fixed income, and commodities, including precious metals, energy and agriculture.

Since 2013, he has been substantially involved in the digital asset space as a cryptocurrency investor, entrepreneur, and thought leader.  From 2021-2023 he built the regulated derivatives trading business of Genesis Global Capital International into the world’s top principal sell-side dealer and proprietary trading desk serving the industry’s largest hedge funds, investment firms, protocol founders, and ‘whales’.

Working at the vanguard of digital asset treasury management solutions, he now oversees a number of institutional client portfolios, with a primary focus on bitcoin and ether.  His commentary and analysis on digital asset markets have been regularly featured in Bloomberg, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Finance and crypto-native publications such as The Block and BeinCrypto.    He continues to undertake innovative quantitative and applied econometric research  in conjunction with top tier academic institutions and is widely considered to be the among the crypto industry’s leading subject matter experts on cryptocurrency options.

A global citizen, he has visited over 40 countries and travels frequently throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.  He speaks English, French, Farsi, and Arabic.