Andrew Forson

Biography

Andrew Forson is the Head of Ventures and Investments at The Hashgraph Group, an affiliated entity to The Hashgraph Association which is the commercialization and enablement arm of the Hedera Layer 1 Distributed Ledger ecosystem. There he is responsible for making investments and working with portfolio companies to develop and execute their strategic vision in a manner that builds value. Andrew leads capital raising for the Hashgraph Ventures Fund as well as the development of structured instruments.

Andrew is currently a director of DeFi Technologies, parent company of Valour, a creator of regulated exchange traded fund instruments. Andrew is a software developer and financial quantitative risk engineer who has served in roles as diverse as Founder, CEO, CTO, Head of Risk and Quantitative Analytics, and Global Business Blockchain Lead at a range of tech and finance related companies in a twenty-five year career that began with Deloitte Consulting in Toronto Canada.

Andrew holds an MBA, Post Graduate Certificate, and Post Graduate Diploma from the Edinburgh Business School. He is a TEP (Trust and Estate Practitioner) with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. He is a practitioner of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Tae Kwon Do and holds black belts in both disciplines.