Crypto On Fire, Banking Under Fire

Sheraz Ahmed is Managing Partner at STORM Partners, a blockchain and fintech consulting firm headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, which he has led since September 2020. At STORM Partners, he oversees strategy, compliance, and growth services for clients across the blockchain space, with mandates spanning marketing and growth, legal and compliance, finance and fundraising, and digital transformation. Clients have included Algorand, Aave, Cardano, Polygon, MultiversX, SingularityNet, Galaxy Digital, Swissborg, and Vodafone, among others.

Ahmed's work in digital assets extends to structuring and launching tokenized products, including tokenized intellectual property, carbon credits, creator tokens, and private securities, using blockchain infrastructure, legal wrappers, and AI-linked systems. His innovation lab, Lightningbox, has run pilots with Hublot, UNICEF, and Maerki Baumann. He also supported a $7.2 billion merger through a structured token strategy. In April 2026, he spoke at a breakfast event in Paris organised by The Big Whale ahead of Paris Blockchain Week, alongside representatives from Boerse Stuttgart Digital, Spiko, TACEO, 21x, and AMINA Bank, on the subject of institutional onchain exposure. Beyond STORM Partners, he is Founder of Decentral House and serves as Ecosystem Director at the Crypto Valley Association. He holds a dual Bachelor of Business Administration from Lancaster University and Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICADE. He was born in England and has spent much of his life in Switzerland, with heritage tracing to India, Pakistan, and Kenya.