Benjamin Tsai is co-founder and president of Wave Digital Assets, an SEC-registered digital asset management company. He oversees product development and trading at the company. He is trilingual, a native speaker of virtual currencies, and a veteran of the traditional financial sector. Ben has over 15 years of senior leadership experience at Merrill Lynch Commodities in Singapore, where he served as the company's CEO. He also worked at Alliance Bernstein, where he managed profitable distribution teams and drove business strategy in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei. Ben has invested in and mentored early stage startups in Southern California. He holds numerous securities licenses and holds a B.S. in Engineering from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He currently teaches cryptocurrency finance at the same university.