About 1konto

We’re a team of rocket scientists, engineers, and traditional market professionals coming together to create a world where all assets are connected and globally accessible at the best price. We relentlessly pursue this vision by focusing on revolutionizing financial market infrastructure to provide the best execution and financial services for our clients.

Leveraging our experience at some of the most well-known and innovative companies in finance and tech; Wells Fargo, QuantConnect, NASDAQ, Lockheed Martin, Deephaven Data Labs, and LexisNexis, we strive to deliver the best price execution for digital and traditional assets.

Experienced Leadership Team

Edwin Handschuh

Chief Executive Officer

+10 years experience in financial services, investment management, trading and market infrastructure.

Former investment professional on Sales & Trading desk at Wells Fargo Private Client Group, where he and his team managed over $350M in assets for HNWI and institutions.

BSc Finance, Drexel University Series 7, 66, and 24

Edwin Handschuh

Chief Executive Officer
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Michael Handschuh

Chief Technology Officer

+10 years experience in physical and computer engineering, focused on algorithmic trading, modelling and simulation, and distributed systems architecture.

Former Director of Engineering at QuantConnect, worked with NASA JPL, Lockhead Martin, and AGI

BSc Aerospace Engineer, Florida Institute of Technology Series 7

Michael Handschuh

Chief Technology Officer
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Talha Chaudhry

Head of Trading

+20 years experience in the global financial markets, focused on Risk Governance, Biz Dev and Quantitative Trading, while building multiple trading desks in various asset classes.

Former Chief Risk Officer of MF Global, Head of Trading and Risk MD at Sun Trading

MBA Finance, McGill University Series 7, 24, and 4

Talha Chaudhry

Head of Trading
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Steven Stefanowicz

Chief Compliance Officer

+20 combined years’ experience in Global Operations encompassing Compliance, Risk Management, Intelligence Analysis, and Global Investigations.

Former Senior Investigator with Capital One, Risk Management Division; Compliance Officer with JP Morgan Chase, Global Financial Crimes; Risk Management and Intelligence Analysis, United States Navy.

BSc Business Management, University of Maryland; MPA, University of Pennsylvania, Alumni

Steven Stefanowicz

Chief Compliance Officer
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Advisory Board

Patrick Egan

FinTech Biz Dev Advisory

Successful financial services and sales executive with over 25 years of experience in the financial markets, focused on business development and revenue growth.

Former Chief Revenue Officer at Manatara, Head of Sales at TradingScreen and TradeGuard (Nasdaq)

MBA Finance, St John's University

Patrick Egan

FinTech Biz Dev Advisory
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Asaf Iram

Regulatory and Risk Advisor

Successful financial markets executive with over 15 years of experience in trading and risk management of traditional and digital assets. Asaf has a track record of delivering performance and growth with an eye on risk. He has deployed these strategies at numerous companies throughout his career.

Current Head of Risk at Anchorage Digital.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/asafiram/

Asaf Iram

Regulatory and Risk Advisor
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John Min

Corporate FX Advisory

Successful entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in sales and corporate FX payments. John has a track record of founding, exiting and advising Corporate FX companies.

Current Chief Economist at Monex USA, Former cofounder/CEO WorldFirst USA.

PhD Economics, George Mason University

John Min

Corporate FX Advisory
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Peter Santeusanio

Investor, Executive Mentor

Successful serial entrepreneur with over 35 years of experience in management, investments, capital formation, financial operations and technology. Peter has founded over 10 tech companies.

Former cofounder of Xionics (IPO), Microcom (acq by Compaq), and NBX Corp acq by 3COM.

BSc Electrical Engineering, MIT

Peter Santeusanio

Investor, Executive Mentor
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