Brian is the Co-Founder and Co-Project Lead of zkLend. He majored in Engineering Physics and minored in Commerce at the University of British Columbia, during which he developed a keen interest in computational finance. With more than 15 years of experience in TradFi, investment banking and private equity at major financial institutions including Bloomberg, Standard Chartered Bank, Silk Road Finance and China Merchants Capital, diving into the world of on-chain protocols and crypto was an eye opening experience. Having experienced the bottlenecks and painpoints of TradFi infrastructure firsthand, he looks forward to building with people and technology that can realise this new financial paradigm.
zkLend has raised $5 million to build out its speedy, low-cost lending and borrowing protocol using the Ethereum scaling solution zk-Rollups.
We believe there is a massive opportunity with banks, private debt players, payments service providers in the traditional space, not to mention family offices, and private investment and/or corporate treasury arms of smaller private companies.