Dan Morehead

Dan Morehead is founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm focusing on bitcoin and other digital currencies. Prior to founding Pantera, Morehead was Chief Financial Officer and head of macro trading at Tiger Management. Morehead previously held executive roles at Deutsche Bank in London, Bankers Trust, and Goldman Sachs. He founded and was CEO of Atriax, an electronic foreign exchange platform, which closed in 2002 . Morehead led funding in and is on the board of directors at Bitstamp, which as of May 2015 is the fourth-largest bitcoin exchange, and BitPesa, a Nairobi-based startup focusing on remittances.

Dan founded Pantera Capital Management in 2003, managing over $1 billion of institutional investor assets in its global macro strategy. He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson. Dan began his career at Goldman Sachs as their first Asset-Backed Securities Trader. Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and received the Carmichael Prize for his thesis.

Morehead received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude in 1987 and receiving the Carmichael Prize for outstanding thesis.