Recorded 29th August 2021

Manu is a tech focused entrepreneur, venture investor and crypto NFT artist. Subject matter expert on emerging financial technologies including electronic trading, digital assets and deep learning artificial intelligence.

Manu is currently the CEO of DMALINK - a leading independent electronic trading, analytics and market data venue for institutional EM FX and the Co-Founder of DeFinity - an institutional electronic trading venue for digital assets. Before joining FinTech in 2019, Manu spent 16 years working in fixed income, currencies and commodities OTC derivative sales & structuring for Lloyds and Barclays investment bank.

Manu is an avid explorer of consciousness and uses the medium of art to try and bring back a small piece of the picture and contribute to the building of a new paradigm in the understanding of our own reality. The late Bill Hicks, probably said it best: ‘Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves,'