Osman Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Paddle8, the online auction house that he created in 2011 with Alexander Gilkes and Aditya Julka. He was formerly COO of the company. He attended received his BA and Masters in industrial engineering from Northwestern, and his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was roommates with Julka, his future co-founder. Khan previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Perella Weinberg, where he focused on M&A and private capital raising. Osman is a board member of ArteEast, a non-profit focused on creating residency programs for Middle-Eastern artists in the U.S., and on the Leadership Council of Rhizome, a pioneer in bringing together the spaces of art and technology.