Gert Dekegel

Global Head of Enterprise Risk at OKX

Overview

Details

Gert Dekegel is the Global Head of Enterprise Risk at OKX, having previously held the Head of Enterprise Risk, Liquidity Risk, and Risk Reporting positions at BlockFi from April 2021 to March 2024, alongside a role as Director of Risk. Prior experience includes consulting in Risk & Compliance Management at McKinsey & Company. Gert Dekegel holds a Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) from UCLA Anderson School of Management, an MBA from Vlerick Business School, and a BA and MS in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Work Experience

OKX

Global Head of Enterprise Risk

Mar, 2024 - Now

McKinsey & Company

BlockFi

Head of Enterprise Risk / Liquidity Risk / Risk Reporting

Jan, 2022 - Mar, 2024

Education Experience

UCLA

Relevance Person

Yuri Mushkin

Yuri Mushkin is the Chief Risk Officer of OKX and will be responsible for leading the company’s global risk strategy and the enterprise risk management function independent of the business, reporting directly to the CEO and the Board of Directors. Yuri Mushkin started his career at Goldman Sachs and then joined McKinsey & Company as a senior risk expert and managed financial risks in McKinsey’s Investment Office (MIO).

Victor Yu

Victor Yu is the co-founder and COO of Carv and previously worked at IDG and McKinsey. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ronny Conway

Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.

Clo G.

Clo G. is the co-founder of CARV and previously served as managing director at Contentos. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Will Reeves

Will Reeves is the CEO and co-founder of Fold, and was previously the Head of Payments at Thesis. He is a graduate of UCLA and UC Berkeley.

Mandy Campbell

Mandy leads Bain Capital Crypto’s and portfolio marketing efforts across brand, content, events, and communications. Before joining the Bain team, she led Marketing for global crypto exchange Okcoin and managed fast-growing teams at companies like GitHub, Lyft, and Meta. When she’s not helping builders, she’s hiking with her family or searching for carrot cake in the Bay Area.

Mike Jones

Mike Jones is a talent partner at Dragonfly, and previously she was head of technical recruiting at OKX. She graduated from Cornell University in the United States.

Joe Z.

Joe Z. is the Chief Technology Officer at DeAgentAI, specializing in language translation models for specialized areas. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Jason Lau

Jason Lau is the Chief Operating Officer at Okcoin & Chief Innovation Officer at OKX, one of the world's leading fiat-focused digital asset exchanges. He has previously served as VP of Business Development of OKEx, an exchange focused on token-to-token and crypto derivative trading. With his background in traditional finance and trading, Jason is passionate about driving more awareness and adoption of crypto, building teams, capitalizing on growth opportunities, and ultimately helping people fulfill their potential. In his role at OKCoin, he is responsible for helping expand the company's international footprint to bring safe, trusted cryptocurrency access to users throughout the world.

James Jiang

James Jiang is a general partner at Redline Labs and previously worked at OKX. He holds a master's degree in software engineering from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.