Itay Tuchman

Itay Tuchman is CEO of Consello Digital, the company’s Digital Assets Advisory business.
Prior to joining Consello, Mr. Tuchman was the Global Head of Foreign Exchange at Citi, which he joined in 1998.
Prior to his most recent role at Citi, he was the Head of Citi’s Markets and Securities Services business covering Australia and New Zealand from 2014 to 2017, Head of Foreign Exchange and Interest Rates Trading in Japan from 2012 to 2014, and successfully led Citi’s Short-Term Interest Rate trading business out of London in the years through the financial crisis; engaging with numerous Central Banks, policymakers, clients and others in helping navigate liquidity and funding challenges throughout that period.
Over the past number of years, he has led the ongoing engagement between bank trading desks, global regulators and Digital Asset/Crypto-focused institutions both within Citi and for the wider FX marketplace.
As chair of the industry-wide Global Foreign Exchange Division (GXFD), he worked across the globe to support a well-functioning, safer, and more efficient currencies market and led the efforts in pushing the Foreign Exchange industry into engaging with Digital Assets and decentralized financial systems more meaningfully.
He is also a strategic advisor to a handful of innovative companies and blockchain networks within the Digital Assets space.
Itay holds a B.S.
in Economics and Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.