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Akbar Thobhani, SFOX
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Akbar Thobhani is the CEO of institutional cryptocurrency broker-dealer SFOX. He was previously head of growth and business development at Airbnb and managed their payments in over 190 countries. He has built four trading and payments platforms for ITG, Boku, and Stamps.com. He started his career as a software engineer at JPL / NASA, and began mining bitcoins while attending MIT.

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