About Gilded: Gilded offers an easy, cost-effective platform for buying, holding, selling, and sending digital gold for long-term savings via a mobile app. The company also provides a modern and innovative way to gift gold and send funds in the form of digital gold across borders. Gilded provides the highest level of safety, security, and trust in the gold business. Gold purchased through Gilded meets the highest standards, being Swiss refined, of 0.9999 fineness and compliant with all London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) gold bar specifications. Gilded is registered in Jersey, Channel Islands, with the Jersey Financial Services Commission, the principal financial services regulator in Jersey. Gilded also utilizes Jersey Trust Company as an independent administrator. The app is currently available for free in India and in the UAE on Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Learn more: www.gilded.app About Ashraf Rizvi: As the CEO and Founder of Gilded, formerly Digital Swiss Gold, Ashraf Rizvi is responsible for the day to day running of the firm. Ashraf sets the vision and strategy for Gilded and brings over 20 years of executive experience as Founder, Managing Partner and Global Business Head. Ashraf started Gilded as he wanted to provide investors freedom from the fiat based financial system. His goal is to provide investors everywhere, access to gold with the benefits of ease of use, safety, security and savings. With Gilded, gold is more than just a commodity to hold on to: it’s a symbol of economic independence. Prior to founding Digital Swiss Gold-Gilded, Ashraf was the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SummerHaven Investment Management, a commodities management firm overseeing nearly $2 billion in assets for retail and institutional clients including endowments, foundations, and family offices. While at SummerHaven, he was instrumental in developing, creating, and launching many ETF’s that collectively managed assets of over $1 billion with many of the ETFs achieving Morningstar 5-star rankings. For over 13 years, Ashraf was a senior leader at UBS holding a variety of roles in New York and London including Global Head of Commodities Trading, Global Head of Metals and Banknotes, Global Head of Emerging Markets FX and Global Head of Credit Repo. Under his leadership UBS was regularly ranked Top Metals Bank in Risk magazine and earned many honours for Most Innovative Deals of the Year. He was Head of FX Options Trading in New York for Credit Suisse. Ashraf started as a FX options trader on the trading floors in Philadelphia, Chicago and New York and was a senior member of the FX team at Susquehanna Investment Group one of the largest independent trading firms in the world.

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