Dr. Ravi Chikatamarla

Dr. Ravi Chikatamarla is Executive Partner, heading Fintech and Blockchain technologies at Strategic Swiss Partners. He holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and Master of Technology from IIT Delhi (Presidents Gold Medalist 1999). After being awarded the best PhD thesis in the year 2006, he was selected for the prestigious UBS Investment Bank graduate program. After two years as a developer of trader tools for the FX options desk, Dr. Chikatamarla was promoted to lead the Finance FX team, where he drove business planning, strategy and analytics. He then joined the trading desks in Zurich, London and Singapore, helping them grow and maximise profit, and from there was appointed the Global COO for Foreign Exchange business. In his position as COO, Dr. Chikatamarla seamlessly led front-to-back global business operations and steered critical projects such as the IOSCO benchmark implementation, MiFiD II, and the LIBOR transition for the investment bank. Dr. Chikatamarla brings over two decades of hands-on business expertise and in-depth product knowledge in Finance and Technology. He has been a fierce proponent of blockchain, digital assets, and decentralized finance and technology since the early days.