Leadership

Michael Moro is the CEO of Genesis, responsible for planning and executing the strategic vision of the firm. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer for Genesis Trading and was responsible for overseeing all day-to-day operations. He started his career at Citi in investment banking, covering financial institutions and finance companies. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds FINRA Series 7, 24, 63 and 86/87 licenses. Additionally, he sits on the Oversight Committee for the CME CF Bitcoin Pricing Products.

Martin Garcia is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Sales & Trading for Genesis. His responsibilities include the planning and execution of all sales efforts in digital currencies, and his coverage includes some of the largest family offices and hedge funds globally. Previously, he was a Vice President at SecondMarket where he focused on execution of fixed income transactions. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering and holds FINRA 7, 24, 53 and 63 licenses.

Michael Paleokrassas serves as a Managing Director of Genesis and is responsible for institutional sales and trading. Previously, he served as Vice President for the Trading Team at SecondMarket, where he focused on facilitating Asset-Backed Securities transactions. Mr. Paleokrassas joined SecondMarket in 2008. He is a graduate of Colby College and holds FINRA Series 7, 53 and 63 licenses.

Arianna Pretto-Sakmann is General Counsel of Genesis Global Trading, Inc., and manager and General Counsel for each of Genesis Global Holdco, LLC, Genesis Global Capital, LLC, Genesis Global Assets, LLC, and Genesis Global Labs, LLC. Arianna was previously in private practice with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in New York and London from 2011-2019 and with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP from 2007-2011. She was previously an academic and taught law at the University of Oxford and Columbia Law School. She holds an MSt and a DPhil from Oxford University and an LLM from Columbia Law School.

Pat is the CTO for Genesis Trading, responsible for the firm’s trading technology and quantitative research. Prior to Genesis, Pat was the CTO at 7 Chord, a machine learning startup developing predictive trading signals for US corporate bonds. Previously, Pat led technology for credit trading at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) following acquisition of Creditex, where he was responsible for the firm’s data architecture. Pat has also served as interim CTO and advisor for several early stage ventures in financial technology. Pat holds a M.S. in Technology Management from Columbia University, and a B.A. from Saint Bonaventure University.

Daniel Ferguson is the Chief Compliance Officer of Genesis Global Trading, Inc. Mr. Ferguson’s regulatory compliance advisory experience includes curing regulatory deficiencies through the implementation and customization of anti-money laundering (“AML”) programs, fraud detection and prevention measures, privacy law compliance, cybersecurity assessments, UDAAP evaluations, fair lending law compliance, and compliance management system component design and integration for bank holding companies (“BHCs”), global systemically-important banks (“G-SIBs”), domestic systemically-important banks (“D-SIBs”) including Federal Savings Banks, commodity pool operators, hedge funds, asset managers, fintechs, and insurers. Prior to joining Genesis, he served in a number of compliance and risk management roles including Vice President and Compliance Officer with Société Générale, consultant within PwC’s Financial Services Advisory practice, and Director of Operations and Compliance for a commercial financing fintech. A Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Mr. Ferguson holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Harvard University and a Master of Science from Brandeis University.

Uri Stav is a security and cryptography professional with over 25 years of experience leading security and complex systems engineering teams, including work across a range of government organizations. He has been involved in digital asset and blockchain cybersecurity since 2009.

Matthew Ballensweig serves as the Head of Business Development of Genesis Capital, the institutional lending desk at Genesis. He is responsible for the origination and execution of all digital asset and USD loans as well as the growth and expansion of the overall business. Prior to joining Genesis, Matthew was a Research Associate at Bridgewater Associates, a global-macro hedge fund. He received his B.S. from Boston College where he studied Finance and Accounting.