Technical Solutions Director at Copper Technologies (2025-01 – Present)
Autonomous commercial and technical leadership across custody, tokenisation, and blockchain infrastructure, working directly with institutional counterparts from discovery through production deployment.
- New revenue line representing ~20% of company ARR, established within 4 months of moving into the role.
- Client engagements consistently evolve from feature requests into full product redesign conversations: effectively operating as an embedded product strategy adviser to institutional counterparts across Tier-1 banks, market makers, ETP providers, and clearing infrastructure.
- Designed next-generation treasury and vault architecture supporting staking, LST providers, and institutional lending workflows, combining capital efficiency with 24/7 operational requirements.
- Acted as subject matter lead for protocol network architecture in executive and risk committees, translating technical design into commercially viable product positioning.
- Shipped a production AI agent pipeline, end-to-end in under three weeks: multi-source intelligence scoring, automated document generation, and live API integrations. Working prototype in three days using AI coding tools.
- Drove infrastructure improvements across DeFi connectivity, RPC performance, and protocol integrations.
- Led production integration of Canton Protocol, delivering institutional deployment within 4 months.
Head of Custody / Blockchain Product at Copper Technologies (2021-01 – 2024-12)
Owned institutional custody and treasury product strategy: double-digit billion AUM, eight-figure product ARR. Led 40 people across product, engineering, security, and operations.
- Scaled AUM tenfold over three years by expanding into staking, prime services, and new protocol integrations: custody was the infrastructure layer through which the entire prime services revenue line was monetised.
- Product line grew from ten million to twenty-six million ARR; owned the roadmap, the team, and the commercial outcome.
- Prime services product suite for Tier-1 banks, leading market makers, crypto-native funds, ETP providers, and institutional lenders, combining custody, collateral management, DvP settlement, eOTC, and margin-backed borrowing.
- Built a leveraged collateral model enabling borrowing against traded collateral: ten times growth in leveraged AUM within 12 months.
- Designed and delivered a separate MiCA-compliant platform tenant, requiring a fundamental multi-tenancy architecture redesign for entity segregation and local presence, not a compliance overlay on existing infrastructure.
- Reduced operational cost base by 45% annually within 5 months through fee optimisation and workflow automation.
- Built internal second-line governance tooling covering structured risk oversight, audit traceability, and regulatory documentation without slowing product velocity.
- Led product remediation to align the custody platform with FCA licensing requirements: client asset segregation, geofencing control matrices, and compliance workflows.
Senior Product Manager at Waves Enterprise (2018-01 – 2021-12)
Enterprise blockchain platform serving a consortium of 60+ regulated financial institutions and public sector entities. Team of 25.
- Led architecture and delivery of a national-scale blockchain platform from initial design through ten-plus major production releases, managing stakeholder coordination across legal, technical, and operational workstreams.
- Consortium of 60+ regulated participants: structured multi-institution governance, SLA design, and a third-line technical support function built from scratch.
- Delivered infrastructure underpinning government-backed lending programmes at national scale, including stablecoin product development and exchange platform integration.
- Designed a customisable protocol supporting multiple cryptography and consensus models for regulated financial use cases, with CI/CD and performance testing frameworks for enterprise-grade deployment.
Chief Information Officer at Aston Consulting (2017-01 – 2018-12)
- Rebuilt a 20-person technology department across four teams: web development, CRM, enterprise systems, and infrastructure.
- Doubled the number of active digital-component projects while reducing department payroll costs by 17% and migrating 40+ production projects between hosting environments.
