Mona El Isa is the Co-founder and CEO of Avantgarde Finance Ltd. She is a former star-trader at Goldman Sachs who made the top "30 under 30” list in Trader Magazine in 2008 and Forbes in 2011. She also Co-founded the on-chain asset management protocol, Melonport AG.

Mona El Isa was born in Switzerland. She attends University College London where she obtained a Bachelor's degree in Economics & Statistics.

In 2003, Mona started her career as the Vice President of “Equities Trading at Goldman Sachs” and made the “top 30 under 30” list in Trader Magazine in 2008 and Forbes Magazine in 2011.. ^[16]

Before that, Mona was formerly the co-founder and CEO of Melonport AG, a company that developed Melon, “the on-chain asset management protocol”. In 2011, she moved to Geneva-based macro fund “Jabre Capital”, before deciding in 2014 on the future of blockchain technology. Currently, Mona is a Member of the Board of Multichain Asset Management Association. ^[15]

Mona El Isa is active on various social media platforms like Linkedin, Facebook, Medium.com, and Twitter, where he has over 50,000 followers^[13].

She usually posts cryptocurrency updates on her YouTube and Twitter page which has attracted over 40k comments and likes.^[12]

According to Forbes and NETworth.org, Mona El Isa’s net worth is $2 - $70 million. She earned the money being a professional crypto entrepreneur, economist and web developer .^[14]