Brian Quintenz

Brian D. Quintenz is a Board Chairman, Director, investor, and advisor to the world’s most innovative financial technology companies. He has long stood out as an innovative thinker in derivatives, blockchain and DeFi and was one of the earliest leaders in Washington to recognize the value of event contracts and crypto networks.

Quintenz has been a Board member of KalshiEx, the CFTC-regulated futures exchange of Kalshi, since 2021. He also currently serves as: the Chair of the Board of Next Level Derivatives, which is innovating new Treasury derivatives, a Director on the Board of the publicly traded Sui Group (SUIG), and an advisor to Ubyx, a tokenized money acceptance network. Previously, Quintenz was the Global Head of Policy for a16z crypto, the crypto venture fund of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he translated between the crypto and policy communities.

Prior to joining a16z, Quintenz was nominated by President Trump to serve as majority commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and, in August 2017, was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He served four years in his role at the agency until stepping down in August of 2021.