Mo Shaikh

Formal First Name

Mohammad (Mo)

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Mo Shaikh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aptos, the safe and scalable layer 1 blockchain. A powerhouse across the blockchain sector, Mo is a 3x founder with over a decade of multinational financial services and blockchain experience. Prior to launching Aptos, he led the Blockchain Strategic Partnerships for Novi, Facebook's wallet. Before that, he was the Founder and CEO of Meridio, a ConsenSys-backed, blockchain-based company that issued the world's first fractional share of real estate. He also led ConsenSys strategy as an early employee and founded ConsenSys' Middle East Office. Prior to Meridio, Mo also consulted Sovereign Wealth Funds, energy, and telecommunications companies with BCG’s Private Equity practice.

Asset Classes

	Cryptocurrency
	Private Equity

Entity Types

	Capital Markets
	Financial Services

Industries

	Financial Technology
	Real Estate

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Professional Experience

Academic History

B.S., Psychology, Economics, and Accounting

Bachelors Degree

Hunter College
M.B.A., Organization Strategy & Finance

Master of Business Administration

University of Rochester

CURRENT AFFILIATIONS

Mo is an entrepreneur and investor experienced in blockchain, finance, and infrastructure within private equity and venture capital.
He has consulted the World Economic Forum on their global blockchain strategy including Central Bank Digital Currency.
He also serves as an advisor to several high profile CEOs that are facing industry-wide disruption.

Mo served as Director of Strategy at ConsenSys, responsible for blockchain, infrastructure, growth, capital allocation, and incubation.
As an early employee at ConsenSys, he established the company's Middle East office and provided advisory services to the WEF on global blockchain strategies.
During his tenure at ConsenSys, he founded Meridio, the world's first blockchain-based real estate company that allows partial ownership through smart contracts.
Meridio was established to address accessibility, transaction costs, and liquidity barriers in the real estate market, aiming to facilitate seamless transactions and create innovative ownership structures.

EARLY CAREER

As a first-generation immigrant, raised by a taxi driver and housewife on Welfare in Brooklyn, creating an accessible financial system for all is personal to Mo.
He started his career as a senior associate at KPMG, before joining the Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets as a senior analyst.
He joined BlackRock in New York as a real estate associate, and later served as a REIT analyst for ClearBridge Investments.
He was a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group's Private Equity Practice, where he worked on sovereign wealth funds, energy, and telecommunications.

MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS

Mo has been featured in various financial media outlets including The Block, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Blockworks, and TechCrunch.
He has been quoted at Yahoo! Finance, The Economic Times, and Fortune.
He is a Contributor of Digital Assets at Forbes.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.

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