Leadership
Brian Smith
Managing Director & Chief Digital Assets Officer
Brian is a digital innovation and product leader focused on the next wave of financial services transformation, particularly blockchain, asset tokenization, permissioned DeFi and digital securities compliance.
He has spent his career creating customer and business value through innovation, designing and delivering digital products and services at scale for asset management and wealth clients across North America, EMEA and APAC.
Brian previously served as Chief Digital Officer at SS&C and Chair of the TISA Digital Innovation initiative, where he helped drive digital transformation across the financial services industry.
With more than a decade of executive leadership experience, Brian specialises in helping financial institutions transition to digital assets infrastructure, moving regulated securities on-chain while developing compliance and privacy frameworks that bridge traditional finance and Web3.
Brian works closely with asset and wealth managers across EMEA and APAC, helping organisations adopt blockchain technology in a way that maintains regulatory compliance, operational resilience and client trust.
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