Navigate Complexity

Scale Innovation

Deliver Results

  • Deep expertise in financial services, regulation, policy, capital raising, intellectual property, web 3 and start-ups

  • Professional psychotherapy for individuals and couples with a specialism in adult neurodiversity

  • Consultant CEO, CFO, COO and Compliance services.
    Solving complex mathematical problems in financial services. Patent writing.

  • FinTech Consulting & Advisory

    C-suite Consulting for Capital Markets, Fin Tech, Payments and Web 3

    Non-executive director services

    Regulatory strategy & licensing

    Capital raising support

    Product-market fit assessment

  • IP Development & R&D

    Patent development & filing (US)

    Protocol architecture design

    Blockchain infrastructure R&D

    Innovation strategy for start-ups

  • Technical Architecture & Delivery

    Trading system design & architecture

    Development team oversight

    Outsourced team management

    HFT platform experience

    Quality assurance & integration

  • Psychotherapy Services

    Individual & couples therapy

    Neuro-affirming practice

    Specializing in autistic & neurodivergent adults

    Trauma, anxiety, life transitions

    In-person (Berkhamsted) & online

Two Decades of Continuous Innovation

1998 - 2000

Architected first commercial HFT platform (Eccoware)

2019 - 2020

Development of first instant crypto payments systems, ability to pay with major bank cards and manage collateral in crypto

(Crypterium, Coin Rivet (Luxon) )

2006 - 2009

Trading system design

Risk management for fixed income

First automated yield based HFT

(BGC / Cantor Fitzgerald / eSpeed)

2020-2021

Cross border payments reconciliation and automation

(Coindirect (now BVNK))

2013

US Patent application on constant maturity futures (now called perps)

(LDX / Deutsche Börse)

2021 - 2022

Blockchain based royalty systems

AMM DEX with integrate variable fee levels

Clearing systems for emerging markets

(Tacans, Veax, Spaceseven, ICDX)

2016-2018

Overnight settlement systems for constant maturity futures

Creation of mechanics for funding rates (perps) in clearing systems

(Handleport)

2022 - 2025

Real-time clearing systems

Non-markovian VaR models

On-chain verifiable clearing

Tensor based risk models

(CVEX, Pascal, Handleport)

Active Projects

Financial markets and technology innovation starts with deep understanding, the major innovations that will drive efficiency and open access are not created by incumbents. We are focussed on making these changes.

Clearing Advisory
Working with emerging markets exchanges to build cutting edge matching and clearing platforms.

ICDX
2016 - Current

Real-time Clearing
Designing the systems to enable the next generation of tokenised markets with capital efficiency.

Pascal
2023 - Current

Client Impact

  • Group CPO across 8+ portfolio companies

    Oversaw 150+ developers in Ukraine

    Raised 7 separate capital rounds

    Maintained operations during wartime

  • Co-founded, raised £5m through my contacts

    Filed patents on what are now known as perps

    Backed by Deutsche Börse and Société Générale

    11-year engagement overseeing business transition as Chairman

  • Built or significantly involved in the growth of 4 payments start ups

    8 successful regulatory licence applications

    Scaled staff from 14→75 in 6 months

    Built real-time hedging and treasury systems

  • A decentralised, entity less protocol that enable creating the worlds first decentralised clearinghouses

    Addressing the capital inefficiency in token based markets

    Cutting edge real-time risk systems