Kumanan Ramanathan

Co-Head of Crypto

Alvarez & Marsal | Crypto

Kumanan Ramanathan is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal and co-leads A&M Crypto. He is based in New York and brings more than 14 years of experience helping corporate clients.

He has significant industry expertise with digital assets and has been involved in leading company-side efforts for crypto M&A, digital asset portfolio management, capital deployment strategies across DeFi, institutional trading, staking optimization, on-chain tracing, cybersecurity, mass payment solution implementation, stablecoin integration, custody and wallet infrastructure, KYC/AML, and centralized exchange operations.

Kumanan currently serves as financial advisor to FTX and has been involved since the commencement of FTX’s chapter 11 restructuring proceedings. He oversees multiple divisions and leads all crypto and tech related matters, including PM of its digital asset portfolio and venture book. During this recent bull run, he has also been tapped to serve as financial advisor to large healthy-side crypto-native clients.

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