Navigate Complexity
Scale Innovation
Deliver Results
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Deep expertise in financial services, regulation, policy, capital raising, intellectual property, web 3 and start-ups
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Professional psychotherapy for individuals and couples with a specialism in adult neurodiversity
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Consultant CEO, CFO, COO and Compliance services.
Solving complex mathematical problems in financial services. Patent writing.
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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
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IP Development & R&D
Patent development & filing (US)
Protocol architecture design
Blockchain infrastructure R&D
Innovation strategy for start-ups
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Technical Architecture & Delivery
Trading system design & architecture
Development team oversight
Outsourced team management
HFT platform experience
Quality assurance & integration
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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 integrated 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)
2025 - Present
Founded DCN, credit intermediation infrastructure for tokenised derivatives markets. Counterparty risk management for institutional participants, replacing mutualised default funds with securitised risk tranches.
(DCN - Derivatives Clearing Network)
Active / Recent 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.
Real-time Clearing
Designing the systems to enable the next generation of tokenised markets with capital efficiency.
Pascal
2023 - 2025
Clearing Advisory
Working with emerging markets exchanges to build cutting edge matching and clearing platforms.
ICDX
2016 - Current
Derivatives Clearing Network
Building the clearing infrastructure tokenised markets are missing. Continuous pricing of tail risk, 24/7 operation, no socialised losses.
DCN
2025 - Current
Client Impact
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Group CPO across 8+ portfolio companies
Oversaw 150+ developers in Ukraine
Raised 7 separate capital rounds
Maintained operations during wartime
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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
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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
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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