The People Behind XRP Capital

Meet Our Team

We are a collective of seasoned finance veterans, blockchain engineers, and regulatory experts united by a single mission — bringing institutional-grade digital asset investment to the world.

48+
Team Members
14
Countries Represented
120+
Years Combined Experience
8
Advisory Board Members
Executive Leadership
JH
Co-Founder & CEO
James Holloway
Chief Executive Officer
Former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs Digital Assets. 18 years in institutional finance across New York and London. James led $4B in digital asset fund launches before founding XRP Capital in 2019.
Digital AssetsFund ManagementInstitutional Finance
SN
Co-Founder & CTO
Sophia Nakamura
Chief Technology Officer
Ex-Ripple Labs core protocol engineer. PhD in Distributed Systems from MIT. Sophia architected XRP Capital's proprietary trading infrastructure and custody stack, processing over $2B in transactions annually.
Blockchain EngineeringProtocol DesignDistributed Systems
MA
Chief Financial Officer
Marcus Adeyemi
Chief Financial Officer
Previously CFO at Coinbase Europe and a Partner at KPMG Financial Advisory. CFA Charterholder with 15 years of experience in financial reporting, regulatory capital management, and digital asset accounting frameworks.
Corporate FinanceCFARegulatory Capital
EL
Chief Compliance Officer
Elena Laurent
Chief Compliance Officer
Former head of FCA Digital Assets Taskforce and Senior Counsel at Allen & Overy. Elena oversees XRP Capital's global regulatory strategy across 47 jurisdictions, ensuring full AML, KYC, and GDPR compliance.
FCA RegulationAML/KYCGDPR
RK
Chief Investment Officer
Rajan Krishnan
Chief Investment Officer
Veteran quant trader from Renaissance Technologies and Two Sigma. Rajan leads our portfolio strategy and algorithmic trading division. His proprietary XRP yield models have consistently outperformed benchmarks by 34%.
Quantitative FinanceAlgorithmic TradingPortfolio Strategy
AO
Chief Operating Officer
Amara Okafor
Chief Operating Officer
Former VP of Operations at Binance and Director of Global Expansion at eToro. Amara built XRP Capital's operational backbone from the ground up, scaling the platform to serve investors in 47 countries with 99.98% uptime.
Global OperationsScalingProduct
Core Team
TW
Thomas Walsh
Senior Blockchain Engineer
Engineering
PL
Priya Lakhani
Head of Product
Engineering
BM
Benjamin Morel
Director of Risk
Finance & Strategy
YC
Yuki Chen
Lead Security Engineer
Engineering
KA
Kofi Asante
Client Relations Director
Operations
LR
Lara Rossi
Head of Marketing
Operations
DV
David Volkov
Quantitative Analyst
Finance & Strategy
NP
Nadia Petrova
Compliance Manager
Compliance & Legal
FO
Finn O'Brien
Backend Engineer
Engineering
ZM
Zara Mahmood
UX/UI Designer
Engineering
CT
Carlos Torres
Data Scientist
Finance & Strategy
HK
Hana Kim
Legal Counsel
Compliance & Legal
Advisory Board
DR
Dr. Robert Chen
Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Central Banking & Monetary Policy
SM
Sarah Mitchell
Ex-SEC Commissioner, Digital Assets Division
Regulatory Strategy
AK
Arvind Kumar
Founder of KryptoVault, $800M blockchain fund
Venture Capital & DeFi
JB
Prof. Julia Bauer
Head of Fintech Research, London School of Economics
Academic & Research
TC
Thomas Chukwu
CEO of PanAfrica Digital Finance Group
Emerging Markets
YT
Yoshi Tanaka
Former Chief Digital Officer, Bank of Japan
Central Bank Digital Currencies
MV
Mia Vasquez
Partner, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Crypto
Web3 & Investment
GR
Georges Renard
Managing Director, BNP Paribas Digital Banking
Traditional Finance
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