Farzam Ehsani

Co-Founder & CEO Valr

Farzam Ehsani is the Co-founder and CEO of VALR.com, the largest crypto exchange in Africa by trade volume, serving corporate and professional traders as well as more than 1.7 million registered users worldwide. He was previously the Blockchain Lead at Rand Merchant Bank and the FirstRand Group, and was the inaugural Chairperson of the South African Financial Blockchain Consortium.

He previously worked at McKinsey & Company in Johannesburg, Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco, the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa, and the United Nations in Nairobi.  He studied economics at the University of California – Berkeley.