Latest writing
Practitioner perspectives on stablecoins, tokenization and how money moves.
How mobile phone data became a new source of credit intelligence at Experian, and why stablecoins now face the same distribution test.
Read on Substack →
What a Pacific nation with no central bank taught us about issuing digital dollars — from someone who led the project.
Read on Substack →Lessons from Hong Kong's tokenized real estate pilot, and what faster, cheaper mortgages could look like.
Read on Substack →Two decades across payments, embedded finance and digital assets — and the themes I'll be writing about next.
Read on Medium →Where the work happens
Three places that shaped how I think about digital money. Click a photo to see the project.
Building credit from mobile phone data for people with no credit history.
View project →Tokenizing mortgages with a commercial bank in the HKMA's e-HKD pilot.
View project →A US dollar–backed sovereign stablecoin for a nation with no central bank.
View project →Photos via Unsplash: Sonali AK Sharma, Manson, Kurt Cotoaga.
Proof points
Selected outcomes across two decades in payments, fintech and enterprise technology.
Experience
Where I've built, launched and scaled.
Stablecoins, CBDC & cross-border payments
Led the Palau sovereign stablecoin project out of Singapore. Worked on the RLUSD stablecoin launch, On-Demand Liquidity, and a Hong Kong mortgage tokenization pilot with a commercial bank in the HKMA's e-HKD programme. Worked with MAS and HKMA on licensing.
VP, Embedded Finance
Employee #1 of the embedded finance business; built the Asia business from scratch. Launched Dynamic Airtime Advance — first in APAC — with one of Indonesia's leading mobile operators, then across SEA and South Asia. Experian reported 8.1B credit offers by 2019, 4.8B in Southeast Asia.
Smart contract security
Regional leadership at the smart contract security and audit firm, later acquired by S&P Global.
General Manager
Scaled the team from 6 to 40 and supported a $13M Series A. Ran Mintology, a SaaS tokenization platform for brands including Real Madrid, Starbucks and Station Casinos.
General Manager
Licensed crypto-fiat banking: virtual accounts, crypto conversion and card withdrawals at ATMs worldwide.
CEO
Led a 35+ person cloud software business.
Founder
Founded and exited to an LSE-listed acquirer.
Enterprise sales leadership
$300M+ in contracts. Built and scaled teams; President's Club and Inner Circle recognition.
Focus areas
What I work on and write about.