Leo Mizuhara is Founder and CEO of Hashnote, an institutional DeFi asset management company. Prior to founding Hashnote, Leo ran Systematic Trading for FICC Options at DRW for five years overseeing over 40 traders, software engineers, and researchers.

He also spent 12 years at Bank of America as a managing director and senior portfolio manager in the Corporate Investments Group in New York, managing fixed income securities and derivatives exposures on the bank balance sheet.

Leo holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from The University of Chicago as well as a Master of Science in Computer Science from The Georgia Institute of Technology.