Zach Witkoff

Quick facts

• Full name: Zachary Witkoff
• Born: May 21, 1993
• Education: University of Miami, Herbert Business School — B.B.A., Finance and Economics (magna cum laude)
• Father: Steve Witkoff — U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions, Trump second administration
• Brother: Alex Witkoff — Witkoff Group principal and World Liberty Financial co-founder
• Spouse: Sophi Knight (married April 2022 at Mar-a-Lago); one son, Don James Witkoff
• Known for: Operational management of World Liberty Financial (WLFI); public announcement of the $2 billion Abu Dhabi (MGX) USD1 stablecoin deal; co-ownership of the Executive Branch Club; subject of four congressional oversight inquiries

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Biography

Zach Witkoff was born May 21, 1993, into the New York real-estate family of developer Steve Witkoff (founder of The Witkoff Group, 1997) and attorney Lauren Rappoport. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami’s Herbert Business School, worked as an analyst at Wells Fargo (2014–2016), and then moved into the family business as a Witkoff Group project manager before founding the family investment office Witkoff Capital in 2020, where he focused on blockchain, PropTech, and FinTech — a crypto track that predated his Trump-family venture by several years.

In September 2024 he co-founded World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture, alongside Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, his brother Alex Witkoff, and outside operators Chase Herro and Zak Folkman. Congressional correspondence, press reporting, and company materials consistently identify Zach as one of WLFI’s operational managers, and his title in recent company and conference materials is CEO and co-founder. When congressional investigators have sought WLFI records, they have addressed their demands to him by name rather than to the Trump sons who serve as WLFI’s media-facing partners.

Witkoff is the public face of WLFI’s most consequential foreign-capital transaction. At the Token 2049 conference in Dubai on May 1, 2025 — in a main-stage discussion with Eric Trump moderated by Tron founder Justin Sun — he announced that Abu Dhabi state-backed investment firm MGX would use WLFI’s USD1 stablecoin to settle a $2 billion investment in Binance (Bloomberg, May 1, 2025; ABC News, May 1, 2025). MGX is chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, whose G42-linked vehicle (Aryam Investment 1) had earlier paid $31 million to Witkoff-family entities in a January 2025 WLFI token tranche. The announcement prompted a May 14, 2025 letter from Senators Warren and Merkley characterizing the arrangement as “cutting the Trump and Witkoff families into the deal to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.” It was one of four congressional oversight actions directed at WLFI through Witkoff — following Senator Blumenthal’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations inquiry (May 6, 2025) and preceding Rep. Ro Khanna’s House Select Committee on the CCP letter (Feb. 4, 2026) and a May 2026 Warren request for an SEC investigation. WLFI’s public posture toward oversight has been dismissive; in response to the Blumenthal inquiry, company lawyers called it based on “fundamentally flawed premises and inaccuracies.”

Beyond WLFI, Witkoff co-owns the Executive Branch Club, a private members club in Georgetown announced in April 2025 with a $500,000 founding-member fee, co-owned with Donald Trump Jr. and 1789 Capital principals Omeed Malik and Chris Buskirk (CNBC, April 28, 2025; Politico, April 26, 2025). In August 2025 he was appointed chairman of the board of the publicly traded ALT5 Sigma Corporation in connection with a $1.5 billion offering tied to a WLFI token treasury strategy, with Eric Trump joining the board (BusinessWire, Aug. 13, 2025; Fortune, Aug. 11, 2025). His ties to the Trump circle predate his father’s government appointment: Witkoff married Sophi Knight at Mar-a-Lago in April 2022, a wedding attended by Donald Trump and then-Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (The Real Deal, May 3, 2022) — roughly two and a half years before Steve Witkoff became Special Envoy.

Sources

• “Zach Witkoff.” Wikipedia. Accessed May 14, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Witkoff
• “Trump family crypto venture tapped as part of $2B Emirati-backed investment deal.” ABC News, May 1, 2025. https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-family-crypto-venture-tapped-part-2b-emirati/story?id=121415842
• “Donald Trump Jr. co-founds new private members club, Executive Branch, with a $500,000 fee.” CNBC, April 28, 2025. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/donald-trump-jr-private-members-club-executive-branch.html
• “ALT5 Sigma Corporation Appoints Zach Witkoff as Chairman and Welcomes Eric Trump to Board of Directors.” BusinessWire, Aug. 13, 2025. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250813491821/en/ALT5-Sigma-Corporation-Appoints-Zach-Witkoff-as-Chairman-and-Welcomes-Eric-Trump-to-Board-of-Directors
• “Nuptials Mar-a-Lago style: Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis among real estate elite at Witkoff wedding.” The Real Deal, May 3, 2022. https://therealdeal.com/miami/2022/05/03/nuptials-mar-a-lago-style-donald-trump-don-peebles-barry-sternlicht-among-real-estate-elite-at-witkoff-wedding/
• “Warren and Merkley Letter to Zach Witkoff re: USD1 stablecoin / MGX deal.” Senate Banking Committee (Minority), May 14, 2025. https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/20250514_final_warren_merkley_letter_to_wlf_re__stablecoin_communicationspdf.pdf