Harvard Business School

Amherst College

Nyca is a leading venture capital firm focused on connecting innovative companies to the global financial system to power the future of finance.

Nyca Partners

Limited Partner Advisor

Purpose-built to transform financial services, Provenance Blockchain enables regulated financial service firms of all sizes to seamlessly and securely deploy and manage the full lifecycle of digitally-native financial assets at scale on a public blockchain with embedded programmability, privacy and compliance, delivering material business and customer value.

Key accomplishments:  

•	Collaboratively grew users and adoption of public, open source blockchain purpose-built to transform regulated financial services, growing to over $9B of natively issued financial assets locked on chain, second only to Ethereum.  2023 transactions up 160%, HASH fees up nearly 300%,
•	Built industry-pioneering team, Advisors, and Board.  Developed brand and awareness of Provenance Blockchain across financial services industry, with social followers up 250% and 70+ speaking engagements
•	Launched highly successful developer ecosystem with largest grants program for regulated financial services

Provenance Blockchain Foundation

Chief Executive Officer

Centre is a consortium founded by Circle and Coinbase to provide standards and governance for USD Coin (USDC) and other future fiat-backed stablecoins.  Centre’s stablecoin, USD Coin (USDC), has become the fastest-growing, most trusted stablecoin on the market, with over $38 billion USDC in circulation and supporting over $1 trillion on-chain transactions.  The true digitization of money in the form of USDC and other Centre-standard stablecoins will enable frictionless, interoperable, real time payments, democratizing access and enabling financial empowerment for consumers and businesses.

Centre

Special Advisor, Centre

Accelerated delivery of strategic products and capabilities for Citi’s Global Consumer business, including global digital strategy, global wealth solutions, managing best-in-class analytics unit, ATMs and rewards platforms.  Collaborated with Institutional business to co-develop innovative merchant solutions for growth.

Citi

Chief Operating Officer, Global Consumer Banking

Building innovative digital payments solutions across Asia with our clients at the center. 
Drove transformation and growth of Citi’s payments business in Asia through development, delivery and commercialization of new and innovative payment capabilities including real time payments across Asia for relevance with digital native and e-commerce clients.  Led Citi Innovation Lab in Singapore to co-create with enterprise clients, leverage new technologies and enable business to successfully innovate.

Head of Payments for Asia Pacific + Citi Innovation Lab in Singapore

Led Citi’s cross-currency payments business in Treasury & Trade Solutions with ~$450MM in revenues 
•	Transformed Citi’s global cross border payments business to grow despite significant pricing compression.  Delivered strategic and innovative product enhancements, created strategic partnership with FX business, improved client experience, embedded end-to-end delivery discipline and reduced risk.

Global Head of Cross Border Payments, Treasury and Trade Solutions at Citi

COO of a global business with revenues of nearly $8B and operations in 100 countries
•	Drove franchise competitiveness from strategy to execution by improving the overall business architecture, increasing financial performance, prioritizing business opportunities and requisite resource allocation, developing a more systemic flows approach and building a more innovative culture.

Chief Operating Officer, Global Treasury & Trade Solutions

COO of a geographically complex region, with revenues of $3.4B and operations in 55 countries
•	Prioritized objectives for the region to drive p/l, franchise development, and operational efficiency including realigning resources, redefining responsibilities, refining management approach and redesigning organization

Chief Operating Officer, Global Transaction Services for Europe, Middle East and Africa 

CFO of a publicly reported segment of Citi, with revenues of $10B and net income of almost $3.7B in 2010.  
•	Partnered with business to drive business results, producing net income growth of 10% in 2009
•	Led global finance team of over 150 to drive key initiatives to improve business performance, including reducing expenses by ~$600MM, tax initiatives, client profitability, tracking revenue initiatives, and tech spend prioritization

Chief Financial Officer for Global Transaction Services 

Executed strategic projects working with businesses and functions, including a company-wide structural expense review.  Developed corporate communications, including Board presentations, town halls, employee emails, and analyst scripts

Chief of Staff for Chief Operating Officer of Citi

Analyzed and developed recommendations for complex business challenges, including our equity research model,  cross-sell relationship with emerging market clients, growth strategies, and institutional business five year strategic plan.

Senior Vice President, Strategy for Citi Markets and Banking 

Developed and implemented strategies to significantly increase trading volume executed by U.S. financial institutions.  Drove adoption of LIFFE’s electronic trading system from 0 to 100 clients in a relationship management role

London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE)

Vice President, Business Development - USA  

Traded futures and equities for one of the top 15 traders featured in Jack Schwager’s bestseller “Market Wizards”.  Co-wrote chapter of Marty’s book “Pit Bull–Lessons from Wall Street’s Champion Day Trader”

Morgan McKenney