KHUMBUADVISORY

Financial Products Builders, Applied to a New Asset Class

New asset classes are built by people who have designed, priced and traded complex products before. Khumbu Advisory’s leadership has done that at top firms, and now applies the same disciplines to AI infrastructure.

Leadership

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Michael Ashby

Founder & Chief Executive

Michael is a financial products and markets builder with two decades at leading investment firms. At Point72 he led the digital asset build-out, bringing a new asset class onto an institutional platform. At Thunderbird Partners he built the quantamental trading book. At Ziff Brothers he ran the European and Asian stock loan book, pricing and managing collateralised financing, and built an alpha capture system for global equities. His career also includes GLG Partners, across London, New York and Geneva. He founded Khumbu Advisory to apply that experience to the capital markets forming around AI compute.

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Dina Tsarapkina

President

Dina leads Khumbu Advisory’s technology, data and models, including the agent harness, the Khumbu Neocortex, first-pass screening and market intelligence. Her background includes Bridgewater Associates and Goldman Sachs.

Strategic Advisors

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Josh B.

Strategic Advisor, North America and Asia

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Why this experience matters

  • Product design: structuring financings for an asset without a long credit history.
  • Risk pricing: valuing compute exposure, utilisation and hardware depreciation.
  • Collateral: assessing what GPU fleets are worth and how value is recovered.
  • Distribution: knowing what institutional capital providers need to say yes.

Leadership experience includes:

Point72Ziff BrothersThunderbird PartnersGLG PartnersBridgewater AssociatesGoldman Sachs
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