Vivek Raman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Etherealize, where he is building the global settlement network for tokenized assets on Ethereum. Etherealize is the only company ever funded by the Ethereum Foundation to serve as its institutional arm, and is backed by Paradigm, Electric Capital, and Vitalik Buterin. Prior to founding Etherealize, Vivek spent fifteen years on Wall Street and in digital assets. He traded high-yield bonds, distressed credit, leveraged loans, and credit default swaps at Morgan Stanley, UBS, Deutsche Bank, and Nomura. He went on to serve as Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets at BitOoda, a regulated digital asset investment bank, and built a real estate portfolio of 100+ homes and land parcels - where the industry’s inefficiency drove his interest in blockchain. In June 2025, Vivek testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee in support of the CLARITY Act, making the case that decentralized blockchain networks represent critical infrastructure for the next generation of American capital markets. He has also engaged directly with the SEC's Crypto Task Force and serves on the CFTC's Industry Advisory Committee on the regulatory framework for tokenized assets. At Etherealize, Vivek has assembled a team of over thirty spanning Wall Street veterans and Ethereum's most accomplished engineers and has raised $40 million to bring institutional assets fully on-chain. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he studied economics.
