{"id":51185,"date":"2021-10-14T12:09:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T09:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51185"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:18:46","slug":"former-goldman-sachs-executive-joins-amber-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/former-goldman-sachs-executive-joins-amber-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Goldman Sachs executive joins Amber Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency company <a class=\\\"tracking_link\\\" href=\\\"https:\/\/www.ambergroup.io\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">Amber Group<\/a> announced the appointment of Dr. Dimitrios Kavvatas to the role of Chief Strategy Officer. The announcement was reported in the company&#8217;s blog <a class=\\\"tracking_link\\\" href=\\\"https:\/\/www.ambergroup.io\/media\/39286\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">in the blog<\/a> of the company.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dimitrios Kavvatas earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. For twelve years he held the position of partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs&#8217; European regional headquarters, and then spent five years leading the firm&#8217;s equities division in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cDr. Kavvatas has extensive experience in derivatives and asset management. He will help us pursue initiatives to optimise the company\u2019s financial structure,\u201d commented Amber Group CEO Michael Wu.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\\"tracking_link\\\" href=\\\"https:\/\/www.ambergroup.io\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">Amber Group<\/a> is a cryptocurrency company that provides asset management and liquidity provisioning services to institutional and individual clients, as well as investment products with yields up to 16% per annum.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>In Q3 2020, Amber Group launched mobile apps for <a class=\\\"tracking_link\\\" href=\\\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/id1515652068\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">iOS<\/a> and <a class=\\\"tracking_link\\\" href=\\\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=io.ambergroup.amber\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">Android<\/a>. According to company representatives, the app has more than 5,000 active users from Russia. They can reach the Russian-language support team via <a class=\\\"tracking_link\\\" href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/ambercommunityRussia\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">Telegram<\/a> and <a class=\\\"tracking_link\\\" href=\\\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RussiaAmber\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>In June, Amber Group closed a $100 million Series B round at a $1 billion valuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency company Amber Group announced the appointment of Dr. Dimitrios Kavvatas to the post of Chief Strategy Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"2","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2259,728],"class_list":["post-51185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-amber-group","tag-goldman-sachs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"2","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51187,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51185\/revisions\/51187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}