CEO
Copper.co
Amar Kuchinad serves as the Global CEO of Copper, a leading digital asset financial services and technology company providing blockchain-based collateral management, custody, and treasury optimization products and services. With a diverse background spanning traditional finance and innovative fintech, Amar brings a wealth of experience to drive Copper's institutional-first approach.
Previously, Amar was a Senior Managing Director at Pretium Partners, an alternative asset manager with over $50 billion in AUM, where he was responsible for technology, data, analytics, and risk across the management company and its operating subsidiaries.
Prior to Pretium, Amar was CEO and Co-Founder of Electronifie, a SEC-registered broker-dealer which operated an alternative trading system enabling institutions to trade corporate bonds, and Chief Strategy Officer at Trumid following Trumid’s acquisition of Electronifie.
Before his entrepreneurial endeavor, Amar served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), providing market practitioner insights across Trading & Markets, Investment Management, and Enforcement.
Amar’s career on Wall Street was primarily spent at Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for a number of equity and credit trading businesses. He graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Applied Mathematics.
As digital assets move from the fringe into institutional portfolios and market infrastructure, custody has emerged as the critical control point in the value chain. For traditional financial institutions, digital asset custody is no longer a niche offering—it is the foundation that determines who owns client relationships, who controls risk, and who participates in the next phase of tokenized markets.
This panel will explore the biggest opportunities and unresolved issues facing TradFi executives as they evaluate digital asset custody strategies. Panelists will discuss how custody underpins trading, settlement, tokenization, and payments; where banks have a natural advantage—and where they face new forms of operational and regulatory risk; and what decisions leadership teams must make in the next 12–24 months to preserve relevance and optionality. The conversation will focus on strategic choices, governance, economics, and execution realities, equipping executives with a framework to assess whether—and how—to engage, including: