Andrey Belyakov is the Founder of Opium.team and theArt.Exchange. He is a member of the CFA Institute, a professional derivative trader, and a fund manager with 10 years of experience managing portfolios worth over 20 billion EUR. He is also an entrepreneur, private venture investor, and advisor of several fintech start-ups. He previously worked at KPMG, Transamerica, and Aegon Asset Management. He holds two master's degrees, one in Mathematics from Moscow State University and the other in Corporate Finance from Amsterdam Business School. During his mathematical career, Andrey worked on Queue Theory for large distributed systems and Theory of Probabilities at Moscow State University from 2004 to 2009. He has been an active member of the Ethereum community since its inception in 2015 and has been developing distributed financial applications ever since.