Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, sFOX

Akbar Thobhani is the co-founder and CEO of sFOX, a full-service crypto prime broker bringing together liquidity, best price execution, dark pool access, treasury management, custody and settlement services all together in one trading platform and API. Prior to co-founding sFOX, Thobhani served as Head of Growth & Business Development at Airbnb, where he managed payments for over 190 countries.

With vast experience in trading and payments, Thobani has developed several platform solutions for companies like ITG, Boku, and Stamps.com. He started his career as a software engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Thobhani earned his MBA from MIT, where he started mining bitcoins before it was popular.