Avtar Sehra

Avtar is currently founder and CEO of STBL. Previously founder and CEO of Kaio (formerly Libre Capital), a joint venture by Brevan Howard’s WebN and Nomura’s Laser Digital.

Avtar was an early adopter of Bitcoin and worked on projects such as colored coins. This led him to founding Nivaura in 2014, which was a pioneer in primary market workflow automation for issuing debt instruments, and applying this to enabling tokenised bond issuance. Avtar worked on the majority of early industry tokenised bond and structured product deals, supporting in structuring and executing tokenised instruments and leveraging public blockchains to enable registration and settlement.

Avtar has a PhD in theoretical particle physics and a masters in computational engineering; and is a graduate of Imperial College. After his academic career he transitioned to capital markets, focusing across quantitative risk management, pricing systems and infrastructure. He has worked closely with several financial services regulators and has held MiFID and CASS regulated positions with the FCA.