Justin Frankel

Justin Frankel is an experienced and driven financial services executive who also advises and invests in early stage companies. He has extensive capital markets experience in equities, derivatives, portfolio management and wealth management. 

Justin began his career on the floor of the NYSE before working as trader and Nasdaq market-maker during the technology boom of the mid to late 1990s. Justin then moved to Merrill Lynch where he began structuring and selling derivative investments across multiple asset classes. After a brief period as a Private Wealth Advisor at Merrill Lynch and UBS, Justin returned to the institutional side of the business where he managed the Structured Products Sales desk at Morgan Stanley. After Morgan Stanley, Justin served as Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager at Wavecrest Asset Management, a firm he co-founded. After Wavecrest, Justin worked at RiverPark Funds, where his equity derivatives-based fund became the predecessor fund to the RiverPark Structural Alpha Fund, a registered 1940 Act mutual fund for which he served as co-portfolio manager for 4 years. Justin began investing in crypto-assets in 2011, and became the CEO of Bayside Corporation in January of this year. Bayside is an American corporation that is focused on infrastructure around the crypto-asset and blockchain ecosystems.