Matias A. joins Avalanche Foundation as Chief Investment Officer, bringing over a decade of experience managing $20+ billion in institutional portfolios across traditional finance and digital assets. Most recently serving as Head of Treasury at the Avalanche Foundation, Matias has been instrumental in architecting treasury strategies, designing DeFi-centric investment frameworks, and building algorithmic execution systems that bridge institutional rigor with crypto-native innovation. His background spans roles as Portfolio Manager at World Bank Treasury, where he directed $4.3B across fixed-income portfolios, created the backend infrastructure to manage $60B, and contributed to the external managers selection and tactical positioning for a $25B world bank pension fund portfolio, consistently delivering above-benchmark performance. Matias combines rare expertise across macroeconomic policy and capital markets execution. His career began as a Research Analyst at the International Monetary Fund, where he developed analytical frameworks for evaluating and designing policies for sovereign economies of European countries. At the World Bank, he worked on critical macroeconomic challenges including fiscal sustainability for El Salvador and the unfreezing of bond markets in Jamaica. These experiences gave Matias firsthand experience in how policy interventions can restore market function and catalyze economic growth. This dual foundation in macroeconomics and asset management gives him a distinctive lens: understanding both how economies generate growth and how capital markets channel resources to productive uses. Now applied to building Avalanche as the infrastructure for bringing real-world economic activity onchain at scale 🔺