Our Time is Now
If the dramatic impact of cryptocurrency, blockchain, NFTs and the whole nu finance schemozzle on the traditional financial services industry were to be personified in a single individual, it would probably be Vivien Khoo. Formerly a managing director for Goldman Sachs, the ne plus ultra of the old-skool investment banking world, she is now a crypto evangelist par excellence, trying to both fill the knowledge gap that has seen interest in crypto far outpace understanding of it, and also solve one of the key challenges the crypto industry faces: its fairly dismal lack of female representation. After first joining the crypto world with a job at Bitmex, a crypto exchange and trading platform, she is now running not one, not two, but three industry organisations that she also helped to set up: the Asia Crypto Alliance, and the female-focused SatoshiWomen and Digital Women Leadership Network, which has been rebranded to W3W (Web 3 Women).
“I feel like I’m overcompensating for lost time when I was stuck on conference calls at Goldman,” she says.
Born in Hong Kong, Khoo moved to the UK to attend boarding school from the age of
