Digital Assets Expertise
Working with FinTech & Traditional Finance companies on strategy, product roadmapping, positioning, and go-to-market plans for Digital Assets services. Building Digital Asset capabilities for all businesses.
Capabilities
Who I Am, What I’ve Done, Where I’m Going
I am a strategic operating executive with a 20-year track record of building FinTech and Digital Asset infrastructure. My career is built on a foundation of Asset Management systems & processes, and OTC spot & derivatives risk management systems. Since 2017 I have scaled some of the most significant projects in the blockchain ecosystem; ndau was one of the earliest proof-of-stake RWA projects in 2018, then I led Circle’s (USDC) Capital Markets Business Development team.
I specialize in the Institutionalization of Digital Assets, helping traditional financial firms adopt stablecoin payment rails, tokenized securities, and on-chain liquidity solutions while maintaining the rigorous risk and regulatory standards required by global finance.
Core Competencies:
Institutional Stablecoin Adoption: Expertise in scaling regulated digital dollars (USDC) for capital markets and cross-border settlement.
Tokenization & RWA: Deep understanding of moving traditional financial instruments (Treasuries, FX, Credit) onto blockchain rails.
Global FX & Risk Management: 12+ years of experience in FX risk, liquidity provisioning, and managing CFTC-registered entities.
Operational Scale: Proven ability to build business units from $0 to 12M+ ARR and manage digital asset growth from $3B to $50B+.
January 2026: We have brought in a permanent CEO for Power Finance and I have moved into a Senior Advisor role with the company. Over the last 9 mos we built the team and infrastructure (legal, product, GTM) for a Qtr 1 2026 launch. Now its time for a funding round, launch, and the associated activities needed to get and keep attention on the project.
March 2025: I’ve co-founded Power Finance, Inc. to create a unified transaction layer for the Electron Economy, At a high level, we are bridging traditional power markets with modern, digital finance. I’ve got an incredibly accomplished set of co-founders and investors. We are starting with a synthetic dollar derived from Energy Market volatility. Both $PWRd, and our staked iteration, $PWRs are vastly improved forms of lending and trading collateral for power markets generators, users, and traders.
January 2025: Well that was quick. I learned so much about the industry of Staking, and about myself in the last 7 months. I have parted ways with Kiln. I’ve written some thoughts on my time with Kiln as a short essay in the Of Interest section of this website.
June 2024: Pleased to share I have joined Kiln SAS a leading enterprise staking services provider to lead expansion in the Americas. Kiln is a Series A, profitable, 3x RevGrowth 2024 company at the bleeding edge of running the hardware and software that IS a blockchain. Focus is Sales growth in the US and towards institutional financial companies in the US.
Dec 31 2023 Update: Returned to Individual Contributor role partnering with OTC desks, custodians, exchanges in the Americas. Circle has added a focus on Wallets-as-a-Service & Smart Contracts revenues streams.
June 30 2023 Update: Spent 1H2023 managing Sales Team & running 2 Market Validation projects; each with a $100m ARR Revenue goal. Projects are submitted to Exec Leadership for roadmap planning. Have been asked to return as individual contributor to build Wholesale Distribution program to OTC desks & Market Makers. USDC market cap is at $29B AUC. Wholesale Distribution program focuses on supply side incentives to regain market share from other stablecoins.
Dec 28 2022 Update: USDC market cap at $44B AUC. Tough year for Digital Assets industry; 3AC, Voyager, BlockFi, Celsius, Alameda, FTX, Genesis. The Capital Markets team achieved all 3 primary OKR’s in 2H2022. Team will add Market Validation processes to Sales & BD functions for 2023.
July 29 2022 Update: Took lead of Capital Markets vertical on Circle’s Business Organization. 8-person Sales/BD team focused on Asset Managers, multi-asset-class Market Makers, Custodians, Institutional Platforms.
Dec 24 2021 Update: TL;DR – I head up Circle’s Institutional Trading Partners program. We have grown USDC in circulation from $4B to $42B in 11 months. ITP clients have swelled over 600%. ITP clients responsible for over 83% of growth of USDC.
July 15 2021 Update: I have led Circle’s Institutional Trading Partners program for just over 6 months. It has been a whirlwind of doing and learning; building the plane as you fly it. The brand is strong, the product market fit is great, and USDC has gone from $4B in circulation when I arrived to over $26B 6 mos later. The ITP program is responsible for the vast majority of that growth. Onwards!
Jan 4, 2021: I am proud to say I have joined the team at Circle (www.circle.com). Circle helps businesses and individuals move digital money leveraging traditional payment rails and do business in a more global, scalable and efficient way through public blockchain infrastructure.
Working to enhance adoption of distributed ledgers and digital assets as an improvement on fiat money and legacy financial systems. Natively digital assets represent a massive forward leap to the current global financial system. I create and build digital assets and platforms such as stablecoins, securities, money market funds and other types of tokenized assets, and generally work to improve the plumbing of global capital markets.
My career in Digital Assets started in 2017 and was inspired by two incidents in 2015 and 2016 that collectively opened my eyes to the possibilities of distributed ledgers (plus a bit or cryptography). I then picked up a copy of George Gilder’s Life After Google and I was hooked by this fascinating industry. I have been doing some form of putting real world assets on chain well before “stablecoins”, “RWA” or “tokenization” were headlining global Wall St media outlets.
Tokenization of dollars and money market funds has already taken place. Next up are other securities, real estate, and synthetic dollars. Previous attempts at scaled tokenization have failed; this time tokenization will stick. For a essay on why tokenization has yet to have any scale outside of digital dollars, please see the Of Interest page of this website.
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