Mo Shaikh is the CEO and co-founder of Aptos, a blockchain designed for the next billion users. He is a three-time founder with over a decade of multinational financial services and blockchain/crypto experience. In the past, Shaikh has led blockchain strategic partnerships for Novi, Facebook’s wallet. As a first-generation immigrant, raised by a taxi driver and housewife on welfare in Brooklyn, creating an accessible financial system for all is personal to Shaikh. Blockchain is essential to this path. 

Shaikh was the founder and CEO of Meridio, a ConsenSys-backed, blockchain-based company that issued the world’s first fractional share of real estate. Mo also led ConsenSys strategy as an early employee and founded the ConsenSys’ Middle East Office. He has consulted the World Economic Forum on their global blockchain strategy including central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Prior to Meridio, Shaikh also consulted sovereign wealth funds, energy, and telecom companies with BCG’s private equity practice.