Background

Currently, Chris is the Chief Strategy and Business Officer of Libeara, a venture wholly owned and incubated by SC Ventures, the innovation, fintech investment, and ventures arm of Standard Chartered. He drives Libeara's go-to-market and business development objectives. Before Libeara, he served as Director of Blockchain & Crypto at KPMG, where he advised central banks, global financial institutions, and governments. Those initiatives spanned across CBDCs, tokenized deposits, digital identity, and infrastructure design.

His professional background also includes work on the commercialization of DLT at UBS. Additionally, he served as Product Director at Fnality, a regulated financial market infrastructure backed by major banks and recognized by the Bank of England.