Team

CEO, CO-FOUNDER

Founder and former CEO of TOKO, the world’s most sophisticated tokenization engine, entrusted by VARA with the first full market virtual asset broker and exchange licenses. Long term member 
of the Hedera LLC board and governing council representative. Member of the advisory team that developed the VARA virtual assets regulatory framework. 
Senior Partner and global fintech co-chair for DLA Piper.

CSO, CO-FOUNDER

Serial entrepreneur with over 27 years of 
senior management experience in the 
financial markets across UK, UAE and China. He had built a global private social media app, globally regulated and Nasdaq listed Digital Asset business,  created one of the UK’s most successful proprietary Trading Companies. Being an advisor to multiple technology and Web3 start-ups, he has regular guest appearances as a crypto market specialist on Dubai Eye and Dubai One & CNBC Arabia.  He is also a former DFSA Registered Executive Officer.

COO

Founder and former CEO of Digivault, the first standalone custodian to be granted a custodial registration under the UK FCA’s cryptoasset regime. Boasting two decades of leadership and management experience building world class teams in the defence and fintech sectors.  Rob has successfully delivered a number of complex high value programmes for some of the world’s largest MSPs, banks and the Ministry of Defence.
He is also a former Army Officer within the Commandos.

CTO

With over two decades in finance, James has spearheaded infrastructure transformation programs at top global banks. He founded Digivault, the first standalone crypto custodian registered with the UK regulator, serving as CTO for five years. There, he developed a leading cold and warm crypto custody solution, processing more than 3 billion dollars. James is a regular on forums, discussing blockchain's role in traditional finance and the evolution of security tokens.

CRO / CCO

With more than 28 years of experience in global banking covering audit, compliance, finance, risk, innovation and emerging technology, Ian is a future focused executive with extensive banking, financial markets, instruments, accounting, compliance, regulatory and risk experience in the biggest financial institution in Africa. 

He has worked closely with clients, regulators, risk and compliance teams as head of the bank’s blockchain domain to enable regulatory compliant capabilities focusing on KYC, AML, CFT as well as foreign exchange, cross border and legal requirements.

As board member of Hedera he participates in the overall governance of the entity, as risk committee chairman and also as a finance committee member. 

Head of Marketing

Heather Dale, brings almost two decades of experience of public relations, branding and content creation experience to her clients. Having started her career as a journalist at the Financial Times in London and Hong Kong, she made the leap into public relations in 2013. During the past decade, she has worked with global, regional and start-up companies across the world advising on strategic communications, media relations, crisis communications, business launches and financial communications.

Head of Talent

Martin is a senior-level executive search professional in the emerging Technology, FinTech and Crypto space, with extensive experience across Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Europe and US. From Series A to Fortune 500, for the past two decades Martin has partnered with globally recognised growth companies on mission- critical hires, as well as having established a reputation as a keynote speaker, emerging technology evangelist and investor.