Alex first discovered and purchased Bitcoin in 2010, before proceeding to lose his wallet the next year. He fell down the crypto rabbit hole again in 2015 and joined the space full time in 2018. Prior to Baboon, Alex was at a single family office helping manage both traditional and crypto portfolios. Before that Alex helped co-found a crypto OTC desk, Llama Brothers, and acted as their CSO, while simultaneously managing a crypto book for a private investment company that seeded Llama Brothers.

Prior to diving head first into the crypto space, Alex spent the better half of the past decade in various traditional finance roles, ranging from sell-side equity research and broking to co-managing a multi-strategy hedge fund. Alex started his career in Singapore before moving to Hong Kong in 2015. He enjoys torturously staring at charts and occasionally lifting some very heavy weights.

Kaleem discovered Bitcoin in 2015 but only made his first purchase of Bitcoin and some shitcoins in 2017 and since then never looked back.  Kaleem believed that it was ‘now or never’ moment to dive into the nascent asset class, and quit his role as a Portfolio Manager at a traditional asset management firm in 2018 and went full time in crypto.

Prior to Baboon, Kaleem co-founded Llama Brothers, a crypto OTC desk that was based in Hong Kong and Singapore as COO and managed digital asset portfolios. Kaleem's career spanned over one and a half decades in traditional finance, with roles in equity sales, a long/short hedge fund and as co-founder of an asset management company, all of which were not even close to the fun and robustness of the cryptoverse.

Jack came across crypto in 2018 when he hosted a heated panel discussion on Bitcoin vs. Gold. Despite his friends hounding him about investing in crypto, he didn’t really think much about it until the next bull run in 2020 which left him in the dust. Having worked in both traditional finance and tech sales roles over the last decade, Jack decided to take the plunge into crypto and invest in what could be the biggest game changer in financial technology.

Jadey became a coiner in 2017 when someone asked her if she wanted a job in Crypto and if she knew what Bitcoin was. As a curious underling who had read about the notorious Papa Johns pizza trade she decided to leave the less than glamorous world of Law and work full time building companies in what was back then the ICO craze.

When Bitcoin dropped from $12,000 to $3,000 a moment of panic settled in and Jadey doubted her choice to end her corporate career for such a nascent world. She persevered and has been building expertise, investing, consulting, and working in Web3 ever since.