Ivan Bakrac

Ivan Bakrac is focused on FinTech emerging and disruptive technologies including digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain applications and protocols, financial machine learning, and data science & predictive analytics. Ivan is Head of Treasury at ConsenSys leading Digital Assets Treasury Portfolio Management & Investments. Prior to that, he was digital assets risk manager at crypto platform. His domain includes twenty years of experience as a fixed income portfolio manager, global macro investor, quantitative researcher, digital assets strategist, and data analytics builder incorporating financial data science within the asset management. He was the Head of Multi-Sector Fixed Income Portfolio Management at Invesco, Lead Fixed Income Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of Quantitative Strategies at Franklin Templeton Investments. Ivan earned Master of Science in Financial Analytics & Data Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and Master of Science in Financial Engineering from NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He is an Adjunct Professor of Global FinTech – AI & Blockchain and Business Data Science (BDS) at Berkeley College Business School and Blockchain Technologies & Decentralized Finance at Stevens Institute of Technology and Blockchain and ERM at Columbia University.