As Director of Investor Relations and Business Development at Grayscale Investments, Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary leads Grayscale’s efforts to generate new inflows into the Grayscale Investments suite of digital currency investment trusts. She manages Grayscale’s growing investor base of family offices, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, and high net-worth individuals. Since joining Grayscale in 2018, Ray has helped raise billions in new capital into Grayscale’s products and been on the cutting edge of bringing the digital currency asset class to some of the world’s most sophisticated and significant investors. Prior to joining Grayscale, Ray was a Director on the Leveraged Finance Distribution group at UBS. She graduated magna cum laude from Duke with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. Ray was named as one of Business Insider’s 2020 Rising Stars of Wall Street.