David Leibowitz Email & Phone Number

Co-Founder at LeboBTC Ledger Group; CIO Lebo Capital Management, LLC. 39 year career on Wall Street having started trading US Treasuries and Mortgage Backed Securities in 1981 at Merrill Lynch. Transitioning to Global Macro (a focus on global interest rates, foreign exchange, commodities, and equity indices) in 1991, ran proprietary trading for two Canadian banks before heading to the buy-side at the turn of the century, as a founding partner at Balyasny Asset Management and later as a partner at Prologue Capital. In 2013, interest and focus as a Macro trader turned to digital assets, specifically Bitcoin. Having traded through the 2008-2009 ‘Great Recession’, saddened and a bit angry with the "too big to fail" concept still present today, and the anathema of negative interest rates (part of Modern Monetary Theory, monetary policy today), the libertarian thoughts imbued in Bitcoin are a siren call. As a student of markets, Bitcoin (as an investment, not a trade) offers many benefits to owning it in a diversified portfolio.

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  Washington University In St. Louis