Zach Witkoff

Zach Witkoff is the CEO and co-founder of World Liberty Financial, where he focuses on strategic initiatives to promote the mainstream adoption of Decentralized Finance (DeFi).^[1]

Education

Zach Witkoff earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Real Estate from the University of Miami Herbert Business School, graduating in 2015.^[2]

Career

Zach Witkoff is the President of Witkoff Capital, a family office he has led since January 2020, focusing on investments in blockchain, PropTech, FinTech, and consumer products. Prior to this role, he worked as a Project Manager at The Witkoff Group from 2016 to 2020. Earlier in his career, Witkoff gained experience in commercial real estate and finance, serving as a Financial Analyst and Summer Analyst at Wells Fargo between 2014 and 2016, and as an intern at the Ian Schrager Company in 2013.^[1][2]

In August 2025, Zach Witkoff appeared on CNBC Television, discussing World Liberty Financial’s $1.5 billion digital coin transaction and the development of its USD1 stablecoin. In the interview, he addressed the mechanics of the WLFI token, stablecoin economics, and broader trends in digital asset markets.

In August 2026, as World Liberty Financial’s co-founder and CEO, Witkoff discussed the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s preliminary conditional approval of World Liberty Trust Company’s application for a national trust charter, along with USD1’s launch on the Canton Network. The approval was conditional and preliminary, not a final charter.^[3][4]

In October 2026, Witkoff appeared at Token2049 in Singapore alongside World Liberty Financial co-founder Zak Folkman and Mesh CEO Bam Azizi. Mesh announced a partnership intended to enable USD1 spending across its merchant network, with rollout planned for that quarter.^[5]