Adrian Cachinero Vasiljevic and Sébastien Derivaux are the co-founders of Steakhouse Financial, an internet-native asset manager focused on building non-custodial, on-chain investment products for stablecoins. Emerging from a deep DeFi-native background, Steakhouse operates at the intersection of decentralized finance, institutional asset management, and next-generation financial infrastructure.
Prior to starting Steakhouse, Adrian spent time at Goldman Sachs and Bain & Company, and Sébastien created the first decentralized Core Unit at MakerDAO, focused on Real-World Asset and financial reporting. Their combined experience has helped shape some of DeFi's most influential projects, with a focus on transparency, risk management, and cryptographically enforced guarantees.
At Steakhouse, they focus on vault curation as a new primitive for asset management, designing products that offer institutional-grade risk management, liquidity, and non-custodial protections. Their work currently centers on asset management products and services for the stablecoin economy and showcases how vaults can scale as a credible alternative — and complement — to traditional investment structures like ETFs.
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