University of Bath

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Boy's Grammar School

Blockchain Advisor, delivering Distributed/Shared Ledger & Cryptocurrency / Blockchain Technology Solutions - Adviser & Presenter @BitcoinByte @BlockchainABC

Blockchain Advisor and speaker on the opportunities and implications of blockchain distributed/shared ledgers and cryptocurrency / digital money technologies to the existing legacy financial, banking and insurance ecosystems.
Researcher and strategic thought leader on the above. Blockchain / Distributed Ledger Technology adviser.
Twitter: Blockchain ABC @BlockchainABC

Former Chairman & Executive Director of a Foundation - shaping, leading and advising on the corporate structure, outreach, regulation, research, ecosystem and strategy and supporting a global FinTech software protocol development company, designing PoS decentralised CryptoCurrency & Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT).

Previously worked within the UK based Innovation Lab of a global technology consultancy (HCL Technologies, London), to provide strategic input, papers and thought leadership to design, create and deliver secure, efficient, trusted and cost-saving blockchain distributed/shared ledger and cryptocurrency technology solutions to global financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank, London.

Blockchain Solutions Ltd

Blockchain Domain Expert

UK Digital Currency Association (UKDCA)

Founding Member

Blockchain Technology & Bitcoin Advisor, Educator and Presenter, supported by over 25 years practical experience of traditional banking operations, money and finance. Digital Currency & CryptoCurrency advisor.

Founder XeroClear Ltd, a UK based neXt generation Digital Cash Originator and Digital Payments solution provider.

Thought Leadership and Shaper in digital money/crypto-currencies and Blockchain technology.

Michael Parsons’ operational and start-up banking experience gives him a unique perspective on the Blockchain/Bitcoin protocol and the emerging Bitcoin & Blockchain Ecosystem.

Bitcoin is revolutionary...a state-of-the-art, pseudo-anonymous peer-to-peer (p2p) digital cryptocurrency with no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions.

Bitcoin is both a payment system protocol and a means of transferring value between individuals and businesses using bitcoins instead of state-sponsored (fiat) money.

Bitcoin is the world's first digital cryptocurrency - a private and digital alternative to the existing State & Central Bank controlled printed and electronic bank (fiat) money. 
Instead, issuing new money (bitcoins) and verifying transactions is managed collectively by the decentralised Bitcoin p2p network and recorded in the public ledger of all bitcoin transactions known as the Blockchain. 

I am a passionate advocate of both Bitcoin & Blockchain technology to promote efficiency advances in money/payments/settlements to financial services, the media and indeed to anyone whom I may meet.
Currently leading startups in a Bitcoin spread-betting/CFD company, ByteBet Ltd, to include futures & options and Xeroclear Ltd, @XeroClear, a decentralised distributed ledger stabilised electronic digital cash protocol. 

Digital Currency Adviser & Consultant to the sovereign States of Alderney (British Isles)
to whom introduced, and advised on, the concept of a bitcoin-backed physical gold coin, reported in the (front page) Financial Times 1 Dec 2013

@BitcoinByte | @BlockchainABC | @Bitc01n

Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurreny Advisor and Presenter

Cardano Foundation is a blockchain and cryptocurrency not-for-profit regulated foundation based in Zug, Switzerland and is the custodial organization of the Cardano Protocol blockchain technology. 
Ada is the issued crypto-token — and in the top 20 of Cryptocurrencies by Market Capitalisation. 
https://coinmarketcap.com

Cardano is an innovative next-generation blockchain technology platform engineered with more advanced features than any blockchain protocol yet developed, and the first to evolve out of a scientific philosophy and in a spirit of collaboration to build Cardano from the ground up. 
Cardano is designed to be a scalable, sustainable and safe blockchain technology platform for regulated computation with positive implications for enabling digital (economic) innovations in the Internet of Things and the development of Smart Systems.
An important practical design feature of Cardano is to protect the privacy rights of users, whilst also taking account of the needs of regulators. Cardano is the first blockchain protocol to balance these requirements in a nuanced and effective way and in so doing, pioneering a new approach for blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies...

Cardano Foundation

Chairman & Executive Director | Founder

Imaginal Technologies (ImTech) is a UK based firm set up to source, fund, invest in and promote life changing and high-impact innovation in health and well-being using the latest medical technology.

ImTech also offers strategic consulting, including business plan preparation, funding & market strategy development, to profitably commercialise intellectually protected innovative medical devices which address defined medical needs. 

Innovation and scientific discoveries in medical technology saves lives, improves patient outcomes and helps lower the overall cost of health care; ImTech is committed to working with inventors and medical practitioners to bring their products into everyday use.

From 2006 - 2008, and then intermittently from late 2010 onwards, working as part of a motivated dedicated team to promote, fund raise and launch a revolutionary and patented medical technology which will have positive global effects upon world health, life-span and human prosperity; with both substantial charitable benefits and strong potential commercial viability.

Imaginal Technologies

Principal

Internationally financed ethical UK property developer of high build quality eco-friendly Affordable Homes in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg, South Africa, using alternative steel-framed, cost effective and fast track building technologies sourced from the Far East.

This project was placed on hold in 2008, pending finance, following the 2007/8 Credit Crunch.

Phoenix psa Ltd - Cape Town

Director

Headhunted in the UK and appointed as a senior banking adviser during the time of the Russian banking crisis in 1998; senior member of strategy team focusing on restructuring the Russian Banking system.

KPMG, Moscow

Senior Manager - Banking

Corporate UK vehicle set up to advise new non-UK businesses on raising equity and debt capital, formation of corporations and business structures, providing corporate finance advice and structuring commercial and other deal based transactions. Has minority equitable interests in mineral and energy projects in West Africa. Previous deal success in energy (Quantum Gas) and a US$1.3m fundraising for an early stage social network internet start-up (Zaroo Ltd). UK vehicle for new business deals/fund raising opportunities, particularly Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain technology companies.

Mercantile Finance & Guarantee Corporation Limited

Joint Managing Director

Provided banking consultancy services (including business planning, Unisys GWB-LINC II systems implementation, MIS and bank/accounting policies) to banks in Russia (Moscow & Kemerovo), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and Hungary.

Designed and delivered the first bank Chart of Accounts to EC and International Accounting Standards for Russia and a customised Bank Management Reporting System for the largest Russian retail bank headquartered in Moscow, including the provision of detailed Western bank accounting knowledge and procedures. Conceptualised the accounting and operational controls for a bespoke clearing and payments system.

Problem solving risk analysis spreadsheets for a London insurance broker for its Lloyds “Equitas” Implementation.

Feasibility study and due diligence for the proposed acquisition of a foreign trade bank in Kyrgyzstan.

Chartwell International Ltd - St James, London

Director & Principal Consultant - Banking Services to the former Soviet Union

The bank’s most senior British finance professional, and first chartered accountant, responsible to the Russian Board of Directors for the strategic and operational development of the Group and Singapore branch Finance Functions, including corporate taxation.

Effectively also a "re-startup" of the bank, to bring it up-to-date with modern compliant banking standards, following the collapse of the former Soviet Union.

Moscow Narodny Bank Limited

Chief Financial Officer

Determined post “Big-Bang” IT and accounting and settlement requirements for the London office of a US Securities House and directed the financial management operations of opening their 4 new European offices.

Identified, designed and implemented performance reporting needs for a major UK Merchant Bank and Securities House with diverse business activities and designed Group & Business Unit Finance Functions.

Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC)

Senior Bank Management Consultant

As the senior finance member of the three-man project team of the Executive Management, I planned, developed and drove forward the start-up of this new bank and assisted with the Bank’s general management, business development and organic expansion, including new bank branch strategy and implementation in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong (rep office). Monitored and visited bank financed water drilling project in the Yemen. Now the largest Dubai local bank in the UAE.

Invented the concept, then designed, introduced and marketed the bank's successful Currency Passport Savings Account (CPSA) - the first savings account product available in major foreign currencies in Dubai and the Gulf - still in use today:
http://m.emiratesnbd.com/enbdmobile/index.cfm/products/accounts/savings-account/currency-passport-savings-account/
International press coverage in the UK Financial Times under the heading "Passport to Money." - a media first for a bank relatively unknown (then) outside of Dubai. 

Originated and designed one of the few international Multi-Currency bank accounting systems and then initiated and installed the very first bank automated computer system (Kapiti) in the Gulf.