Former Chief Executive Officer / FTX: Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange
Sam Bankman-Fried is the disgraced co-founder and former CEO of FTX, a now-defunct global cryptocurrency exchange, and Alameda Research. Once celebrated as a "poster boy" for crypto, he was convicted of stealing billions from FTX customers and sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud. He holds a degree in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Sam Bankman-Fried is the convicted co-founder and former CEO of FTX and Alameda Research, currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for fraud.
He co-founded the now-defunct global cryptocurrency exchange FTX in April 2019 and the quantitative trading firm Alameda Research in November 2017.
Bankman-Fried graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics.
He served as the Chief Executive Officer of FTX from its founding in April 2019 until the company filed for bankruptcy in November 2022.
Before founding Alameda Research in 2017, he worked as a trader at the quantitative proprietary trading firm Jane Street from June 2014 to September 2017.
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