Anoosh Arevshatian

Anoosh Arevshatian is Chief Product Officer at Zodia Custody, an FCA-registered institutional crypto asset servicing firm owned by Standard Chartered in association with Northern Trust. In December 2025, she participated as a speaker at a breakfast event hosted by The Big Whale in London, in partnership with Bitwise and Everstake, focused on the evolution of cryptocurrency adoption by institutional players, with discussions covering on-chain yield, staking infrastructure, and the regulatory implications of the FCA's decision to permit staking outside fund status.

Prior to her current role, Arevshatian served as Chief Risk Officer at Zodia Custody from February 2021, where her mandate covered enterprise risk management and GRC frameworks. Before joining Zodia Custody, she held positions at Citi from 2014 to 2021, including Senior Vice President for Operational Risk Framework and Strategy and Treasury & Trade Solutions Analyst, working across the bank's offices in Johannesburg, Belfast, and London. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Finance and Economics University Tutor at the University of Cape Town in 2014 and as a Finance and Accounting Analyst at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH from 2013 to 2014. She was nominated for the GRC Women Chief Risk Officer of the Year award in 2021. Arevshatian holds a Bachelor of Business Science in Finance with a major in Economics from the University of Cape Town. She also holds the TRM Crypto Compliance Specialist (TRM-CCS) and TRM Crypto Fundamentals Certification (TRM-CFC) from TRM Labs, the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme from Esme Learning, and has completed the Duke University Decentralized Finance (DeFi): The Future of Finance Specialization through Coursera.