About Us
Abra is a global platform for digital asset prime services and wealth management, leveraging trusted DeFi expertise to connect the on-chain and off-chain ecosystems for private clients, family offices, hedge funds, venture capital and crypto infrastructure firms.
Deep domain expertise in DeFi and institutional risk management underpins everything we do, whether it is trading spot and derivatives, generating yield for clients, helping them borrow against their digital assets or providing them with flexible and customized credit solutions.
We take our fiduciary responsibility to our clients seriously. Abra Capital Management, our SEC-registered investment advisor, operates a separately managed account model and we understand that our partnership with our clients is first and foremost underpinned by trust, which we continually strive to cement through our proven track record in risk management and safeguarding our clients’ capital.
Executive Team
We are a team of technology entrepreneurs and TradFi business builders, boasting decades of experience in successfully managing billions of dollars through multiple market cycles and navigating the unpredictability of crypto market dislocations.
Our team bridges the worlds of traditional and decentralized finance, blending senior TradFi experience gained at premier financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, UBS and Deutsche Bank, with long-standing and unparalleled expertise in DeFi.
Bill is a crypto pioneer, and the CEO and Founder of Abra. Bill is notable for giving the first TED Talk on Bitcoin in 2012 and creating the world’s first synthetic dollar/stablecoin based on Bitcoin in 2015.
Before starting Abra, Bill spent 15 years working on mobile money and financial inclusion projects throughout the world and consulted with many governments, aid agencies and telecoms on mobile banking deployments. Bill started Boom Financial, now part of Digicel, to bring mobile banking and microfinance to every corner of the world. This led Bill to Bitcoin in 2011. Bill started his career working in R&D at the CIA and NASA and also spent several years working at Goldman Sachs in bond trading and Fixed Income markets. As one of the early team members of Netscape, Bill was involved in building some of the core infrastructure that helped grow the consumer Internet we all know and use everyday.
Marissa Kim is Head of Asset Management at Abra Capital Management (ACM), Abra’s SEC-registered investment advisor. Marissa leads Abra Private, which provides HNWIs, financial advisors, trusts and family offices with a comprehensive suite of digital asset & wealth management solutions. Prior to Abra, Marissa founded Quantum Global Management and co-founded Ark Advisors, and she has 15+ years experience advising, investing and leading investment firms.
Bob is responsible for overseeing all of Abra’s trading, which includes OTC Trading, DeFi trading and platform development. Prior to joining Abra he was a Portfolio Manager at Gelber Group, Director at Deutsche Bank and Vice President at BNP Paribas where he was both a member of the G10 FX Desk and built out their e-trading offering.
Willie runs the engineering division at Abra, overseeing the resourcing and execution of all client projects. Prior to Abra, Willie was the Senior Vice President, Engineering, at eHealth Inc, and he has held Vice Presidential roles at CollabNet and Codesion. In 2009, he founded Emergence Software.
Daryl is responsible for building the technology on Abra’s high-quality and effective solutions. He has extensive experience in tech start-ups in Silicon Valley, most recently serving as the Vice President, Engineering at Motif Investing.