Benjamin Tsai

Benjamin Tsai is the Co-Founder & President at Wave Digital Assets, a SEC-registered investment advisory firm that provides a unique combination of venture capital, fund, and private wealth management to the digital asset ecosystem. Ben oversees product development and trading for the firm. A trilingual crypto-native and veteran in traditional finance, Ben holds over 15 years of senior leadership experience at Merrill Lynch Singapore Commodities where he served as CEO, and Alliance Bernstein where he led business strategy and managed profitable distribution teams across Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei. Ben invests and mentors early-stage startups in Southern California, holds numerous security licenses, and received a B.S. in Engineering from UC Berkeley as well as an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he is currently teaching crypto finance.