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 institutional clients. Kumanan advises banks and corporates on digital asset adoption, from strategy to hands-on implementation. He has significant industry expertise with digital assets and has been involved in leading company-side efforts for crypto M&A, stablecoin integration and implementation, banking advisory, digital asset portfolio management, capital deployment strategies across DeFi, institutional trading, staking optimization, cybersecurity, mass payment solution implementation, custody and wallet infrastructure and more. 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 efforts, including oversight of its digital asset portfolio. Kumanan has also been tapped to serve as financial advisor to large healthy-side crypto-native clients and traditional institutions entering crypto, including some of the largest public tradfi institutions.
