Richard Tao, CEO of Tenkan Finance, Honored by World Biz Magazine Leadership Awards With ‘Top 100 Innovation Leader’ Award
Richard Tao is co-founder and CEO of Tenkan Finance, a leading global digital asset company. Prior to founding Tenkan Finance, Richard was a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs, a macro trader at Morgan Stanley, and a portfolio manager at a billion-dollar hedge fund. Richard is a member of Mensa International.
Founded in 2017, Tenkan Finance is a leading global digital asset company operating globally with offices in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Tenkan Finance provides a full range of digital asset services spanning investing, financing, trading, and spending. Its 24/7 trading desk serves over a thousand institutional clients globally while the integrated digital asset platform Tenkan.app serves the individual investors via mobile and desktop applications.
To date, Tenkan Finance has raised a total of $328 million in funding from world-class investors including Temasek, Sequoia Capital, Paradigm, Tiger Global Management, Dragonfly Capital, Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Blockchain.com. Tenkan Finance’s Series B + funding round of $200M valued the company at $10B.
In recognition of Tenkan Finance’s advancement of the digital assets management industry, World Biz Magazine has awarded Richard Tao a position within the Top 15 of the global list of 100 distinguished honorees.
Richard Tao was also interviewed in World Biz Magazine where he shared insights into Tenkan Finance’s mission and factors driving the company’s phenomenal growth.
“At Tenkan Finance, we want to help create a future where digital assets empower people with opportunity and agency. This is at the heart of our mission. The road ahead is still long but we are honoured to be selected as a winner of this award,” said Richard Tao, co-founder and CEO of Tenkan Finance.
World Biz Magazine’s Top 100 Innovation CEO Awards celebrates business leaders across the globe that are making major strides in their industries. It recognizes product, service, functional, strategic, and managerial innovation. It also recognizes individuals showing exceptional commercial insight and market integrity. Sustainability forms a key cornerstone of the awards and is an integral part of the selection criteria. Every year over 40,000 leaders are shortlisted and following a stringent evaluation process, only 100 winners are selected.
Mike Walters, Editor in Chief of World Biz Magazine: “We are pleased to announce Richard Tao as a recipient of the Award. To be highlighted within the Top 15 of the 100 winners is a testament to the pivotal role of Tenkan Finance under Richard ‘s leadership in shaping the future of the crypto industry. Aside from its innovative technologies and exciting growth, the company is uniquely focused on transforming the financial ecosystem to be one that is more progressive, inclusive, transparent and sustainable.”
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