Solomon Tesfaye is the Chief Business Officer at Aptos Labs, a leading institutional-grade Layer 1 blockchain. Prior to this, Solomon was the Head of Capital Markets and Business Development at tZERO, global leading liquidity platform for private securities and digital assets. Previously, he was an investment banker at Citi where he focused on M&A, IPOs and private placements within Diversified Industrial coverage, he has worked as a seed-stage venture capital investor at Kapor Capital, held various operation leadership roles, and was co-founder of a web-based platform. Solomon attended Johnson School of Management at Cornell University for his MBA, is a Roy H. Park Leadership Fellow and eLab Incubator & Accelerator Fellow.