Ashwin Khosa

Ashwin Khosa is a Hong Kong-born business-development and strategy executive professional with a background in institutional finance, cryptocurrency markets, and investment research. He is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Axis and previously held business development roles at Maple and Ondo Finance, following institutional sales and strategy positions at Bitfinex and Tether. ^[3]

Education

Khosa graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 2014. ^[2]

Career

Khosa began his career with an internship at Indus Capital in 2008, where he researched investment opportunities across several industries and prepared analyses for senior staff. In 2009, he was a trainee at Debevoise & Plimpton, conducting client research and analyzing investment and business development opportunities. In 2013, he worked as an Analyst in Citi's Institutional Clients Group in Hong Kong, supporting client sales management and preparing research and client plans. From May 2014 to December 2017, he worked as a music producer, sound designer, and performer, producing electronic music and performing at festivals and events internationally. From October 2018 to December 2023, he held institutional business development, strategy, and sales roles at Bitfinex and Tether, working with institutional and high-net-worth clients and supporting client onboarding, product research, and partnerships. From December 2023 to April 2025, he served as Vice President of Business Development at Ondo Finance. He then joined Maple as Director of Business Development from April to October 2025. In October 2025, he co-founded Axis as Chief Strategy Officer, focusing on the company's strategic direction. ^{[1] [4]}

Axis

​Axis is a digital asset market infrastructure company that combines onchain smart contracts with offchain trading, custody, and risk-management operations. Its trading strategies include cross-exchange and cross-currency arbitrage, funding rate arbitrage, market making, and over-the-counter trading. USDx is backed by digital and tokenized assets, traditional assets, and related futures and hedging positions, while sUSDx lets eligible users share in trading returns through staking. Axis also operates Axis Prime, which serves fintech companies, brokerages, remittance providers, and other financial businesses by aggregating liquidity, routing trades, and supporting cross-asset conversions and settlement. Its infrastructure uses smart contracts to manage token issuance, redemption, staking, reward distribution, and access permissions, while trading and custody activities still rely partly on off-chain systems and counterparties. ^[3]