Morgan Stanley

Projects

• Used to be part of R3 but dropped out in late 2016

Former Employees

• Kikvadze, George; executive vice chairman of BitFury, has worked at GCF Fund, York Capital Management, AFK Sistema and Morgan Stanley.
• Sommer, Tobias; COO of Pluton, “was previously Vice President at Evercore, analyst at Morgan Stanley, and spent five years investing into European Buyouts for Arcapita.

• Bulavin, Alexey; Chairman at Argon Group, UC Berkeley and Australian Business School, Morgan Stanley.

• Potter, Phil; CSO of Bitfinex (Was part of Hong Kong consensus), got kicked out of Morgan Stanley after a quick career when he was 25. He was to loud about his financial spending.
• Breitman, Arthur; founder Tezos and (LinkedIn, Github) graduated from the New York University with a degree in financial mathematics. His latest professional activities before Tezos were related to strategy development and market making, including posts of Vice President at Morgan Stanley, Associate at Goldman Sachs, and Portfolio Manager at White Bay Group.
• IOST claims to have team members who (among many other big name places) come from here.
• Fortuna claims some of their team members from come here.
• Ankr claims (11-11-2020) that some of its team members come from here (among other big companies).

Investments

• M&A and investment in Argon Group.
• Bought a 10% Stake in MicroStrategy (9-1-2021).
• Securitize; part of their Series B round of $48M (21-6-2021)