Farzam Ehsani

Farzam Ehsani is the CEO and co-founder of VALR.com, a global cryptocurrency exchange headquartered in Johannesburg. He was previously the Blockchain lead at Rand Merchant Bank and the FirstRand Group, and was the inaugural chairperson of the South African Financial Blockchain Consortium. He has also worked at McKinsey & Company in Johannesburg, Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco, the Baha'i World Centre in Haifa, and the United Nations in Nairobi. He studied economics at the University of California-Berkeley.