Digital Assets Custody Conversations Part 2

As institutional investors, exchanges, banks and corporations have started using digital assets for lending, trading, payment and issuance services, with crypto-specific applications, the pressure for storing and transferring them securely, quickly, whilst maintaining control of the encryption keys is highly important.

Last month, I invited the CEOs of four Fintechs and other industry experts, to talk with us about their journey to developing digital asset custody solutions and services and share their thoughts and challenges in this new financial landscape. If you missed these, you can catch the recordings here https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/digital-asset-custody-conversations-fotini-stamou/

In this series, we are looking at another Fintech's journey (Unbound), as well as creating a regulatory risk and compliance framework around Digital Assets (Promontory) and how security can be tested to the highest levels (X-Force Red). Please register below:

Wednesday 16th September 2020, 3pm CET

Register here ibm.biz/Unbound

Rebecca Aspler, Director Product Management, Unbound

Nowadays, Rebecca is leading the Blockchain product line at Unbound Tech, a Multi-Party Computation (MPC) security company. Before joining Unbound, he was the VP products at Ofakim Group, Israel’s largest B2B financial risk management, and cross border payments company, protecting and transferring a monthly B2B amount of 5 B USD. Prior to that role and specializing in product management for large scale cloud-based (SaaS) enterprise software applications, Rebecca has led product management groups and operations at companies such as SAP, Synerion, Teoco, and TopTier, working with various Fortune 1,000 companies. Education-wise, Rebecca holds an MBA and an MSC, both from the Technion, Institute of Technology. LinkedIn profile https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/riviaspler/

Unbound applies revolutionary breakthroughs in mathematics to allow secrets to be used without ever being exposed, thus ensuring digital assets are safe – anytime, anywhere. https://www.unboundtech.com

Wednesday 23rd September 2020, 11am CET

Register here ibm.biz/Promontory-Advisory

Julian Sevillano, Senior Advisor, Promontory

Julian leads Promontory’s west coast client relations, which includes its Fintech and Digital Assets practice. He has over 20 years of international banking and payments experience. Prior to working with Promontory, Julian worked at VISA where he held various leadership positions in Risk Management, Finance, Strategy, and Treasury. Most recently, as Global Head of Enterprise Risk Management, Julian was responsible for VISA’s risk governance and risk management framework, and he led risk due diligence for over $3 Billion in closed M&A transactions. He also led Risk Strategy formulation during VISA’s merger and IPO process.  Julian has extensive experience with US and international regulators. Prior to VISA, Julian worked in international corporate banking at American Express Bank. He holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Florida, and is fluent in English and Spanish, and proficient in Portuguese. LinkedIn profile https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/julian-sevillano-855210/

Promontory, an IBM Company, is a global leader in strategy, risk management, and compliance consulting. https://promontory.com/

Wednesday 30th September 2020, 11am CET

Register here ibm.biz/X-Force-Red

Chris Thomas, European Technology Lead, X-Force Red

Chris is the European Technology Leader for X-Force Red. LinkedIn Profile https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/chris-thomas-9a8bb578/

X-Force Red Offensive Security Services, is an autonomous team of veteran hackers, within IBM Security, hired to break into organizations and uncover risky vulnerabilities that criminal attackers may use for personal gain. X-Force Red offers penetration testing and vulnerability management programs to help security leaders identify and remediate security flaws covering their entire digital and physical ecosystem. X-Force Red can do whatever criminal hackers can do, but with the goal of helping security leaders harden their defenses and protect their most important assets.

X-Force Red https://www.ibm.com/security/services/offensive-security-services

HOSTS

Colin PLATT, Independent consultant, DLT and cryptocurrency

Colin has worked in distributed ledger technology and cryptocurrencies since 2013, launching efforts at BNP Paribas Global Markets, where he sat on DLT focused industry steering committees, including R3, the Post-Trade Distributed Ledger working group (PTDL), and FIX cryptocurrency working group. He became a technology entrepreneur in early 2016, initially working with digital asset derivatives. He has been the co-host of the Blockchain Insider podcast since 2017 (1.2m+ downloads). Currently an independent consultant for DLT and cryptocurrency, Colin works with a wide range of companies from start-ups to UK and US blue-chip companies, as well as government and industry consortium. He recently led a 40+ digital asset working group of financial institutions in Europe and North America, in collaboration with R3. Colin is a regular cryptocurrency conference speaker and panellist, and has been featured in the Financial Times, BBC Radio, the Block Crypto, Coindesk; quoted in Reuters, the New York Times, Capital (France), Risk Magazine, and Banking Tech. Prior to his involvement in cryptocurrencies, Colin held roles in business transformation, and structured product marketing at BNP Paribas in Paris, London and New York. He holds a Masters in Finance from EDHEC Business School in France, and Bachelors in Business Administration from J?nk?ping International Business School in Sweden.

Peter DeMeo, Head of IBM Hyper Protect Digital Assets Platform IBM Systems

Peter globally leads IBM Systems technology solutions for crypto assets to power institutional digital asset custody, exchange wallets, and tokenization solutions requiring advanced secure private key management. Peter is responsible for market development, technology roadmaps, and building sales and services infrastructure. As a certified design thinking facilitator, Peter also helps clients enhance their solution's capabilities by leveraging IBM's Hyper Protect Services on premise and on the IBM Cloud. Peter is a regular speaker at blockchain conferences. Prior to his relocation to Asia Pacific from Washington DC in 2013, he was practice leader for Enterprise Architecture, including the divisions large scale software development efforts and IT strategy consulting for US Federal clients including the Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Depository and Trust Corporation, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security. He was also a contributing author to enterprise architecture publication: Coherency Management: Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance (2009). Peter is part of the patent team for IBM Secure Image Build.

Andrea Corbelli, IBM Global Technical Lead

Andrea Corbelli is an IBM technical leader, working with large enterprises, government agencies and Fintech companies in projects for Blockchain, Digital Asset Custody, Hybrid Cloud, Data Security & Privacy. After starting his career in IBM as UNIX and Linux IT specialist, he held several positions as technical manager in Italy, Europe and at global level, leading IBM professionals in technical sales, lab services, and client centers roles, to help clients in designing their Infrastructure Architecture for Digital Transformation.