LATEST PANEL: Keynote Address

Mr. Ahluwalia is the Founder and General Partner at Island Green Capital Management LLC. He brings over 17 years of experience within the venture capital and proprietary trading and risk management industries. Mr. Ahluwalia helped scale CoVenture and Bracket Capital to a combined ~$3bn in AUM investing across venture debt and equity transactions globally. As a General Partner and Owner, he was responsible for all aspects of the business from deal sourcing and due diligence, to founder/c-suite aid and fundraising.

Prior to CoVenture and Bracket Capital, Mr. Ahluwalia was an Advisor to digital asset liquidity aggregator Tradedash.io for 3 years, during which he helped design, scale, and ultimately sell to Bittrex at the height of the first crypto bull market in 2017. At that point in time, Tradedash had over thirty thousand clients and $7bn in order flow. Earlier in his career, he was a Portfolio Manager at Bluecrest Capital in London, where he ran macro and arbitrage strategies globally. While in London, Mr. Ahluwalia worked at Goldman Sachs, where he was Head of Credit Index in Europe, generating record profits for the firm from 2008-2012 while running Credit Arbitrage, Credit Options, Credit Market Making and Cross-Asset Credit/Equity Proprietary Trading.

Mr. Ahluwalia graduated from Northwestern University, where he was one of twenty students accepted to the prestigious applied math program MMSS (Mathematical Methods in Social Sciences). He double majored in Applied Math and Economics. He also studied at the London School of Economics where he specialized in the Economics of the European Union and History.

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