Christian Kameir

Christian Kameir is Managing Partner at Sustany Capital, a Newport Beach-based venture firm. He has spent three decades at the intersection of capital, technology, and ideas — founding companies, backing them, and writing about the forces that shape both.

Earlier in his career he founded Colizer Inc. in San Diego, raised three rounds of funding, and sold the company in 2009. Before that he ran M&P Capital, overseeing investments and board positions across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

He contributes to the Forbes Finance Council and has written on finance and technology for HackerNoon, earning seven writing awards over five years. A book project, Streaming Money, is in progress.

At Harvard, he lectures on fintech and co-designed curriculum on currencies and central bank digital currencies. He chairs the Banking and Finance Special Interest Group at the Decentralized Identity Foundation, sits on the Blockchain Technical Advisory Board of the OpenTravel Alliance, and advises the International Telecommunication Union's Digital Currency working group. He is a subject matter expert on crypto and currency at the Cato Institute.

Kameir studied law at the University of Münster, forensic law at the University of Munich, literature and linguistics at the University of Bielefeld, and Old English and literature at the University of Oxford. He speaks English, German, and Latin. He is based in Newport Beach, California.