Anand Gomes is the co-founder and CEO of Paradigm and Paradex. At Paradigm, he built the first institutional marketplace for crypto options—now the largest liquidity network in the crypto—facilitating $700 billion+ in lifetime volume and capturing 35 % of the global crypto-options market. Anand is also co-founder and CEO of Paradex, a high-performance decentralized exchange with better-than-CEX liquidity, institutional-grade privacy, and unified margin, all built on a blazingly fast blockchain. Since its launch in October 2023, Paradex has recorded $200 billion+ in lifetime trading volume and averages $2 Billion million in daily volume across 250+ futures and options markets. Before crypto, Anand built trading businesses in interest-rate, commodities, and credit markets at KeyBanc Capital Markets. He holds an MBA/MS in Finance from Case Western Reserve University and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Pune, and he began his career managing operations at a mid-market manufacturing company in India. Anand’s interests reach beyond crypto—he’s drawn to fringe art, culture, music, applied sciences, mountains, oceans and motorcycles, always seeking to push boundaries personally and professionally.
