Amar Kuchinad
Global CEO • Copper Technologies
Amar Kuchinad joined the Board of Directors of The Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2012. Mr. Kuchinad serves as the Global CEO of Copper Technologies, a provider of blockchain-based collateral management, custody and other financial market infrastructure solutions.
Before Copper Technologies, he was a senior managing director at alternative asset manager Pretium Partners, where he was responsible for technology, data, analytics and risk across the management company and its operating subsidiaries. He previously served as CEO and co-founder of broker-dealer Electronifie, which operated an alternative trading system enabling institutions to trade corporate bonds, and he served as Chief Strategy Officer at Trumid following the company’s acquisition of Electronifie. Kuchinad has also served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the SEC, providing market practitioner insights across the Division of Trading and Markets, Division of Investment Management and Division of Enforcement.
His career on Wall Street was primarily spent at Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for a number of equity and credit trading businesses.
Mr. Kuchinad graduated from Harvard College with an AB in Applied Mathematics.