Ayad Butt
Chief Compliance Officer
Ayad spent 16 years in New York, Singapore and Hong Kong running FX Options Trading books as a senior trader at Citibank and Credit Suisse and as a Macro Portfolio Manager at Astignes Capital before starting his entrepreneurial journey as the founder of 5 Lanes Limited, an ADGM registered, Crypto trading business specialising in derivatives and structured products. Ayad holds a Masters in Financial Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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