Benj Roberts Chief Technology Officer

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Chief Technology Officer

gDEX Metaverse

Apr 2022 - Current (4 years 7 months)

- GDEX Metaverse acts as a unified GameFi layer enabling interoperability across the metaverse which hosts a suite of robust chain agnostic no-coding needed tools
- DeFi fueled GameFi token economy for gamers to maximize the value of their effort, for creators to create and onboard games easily, and for guilds to manage and grow their guilds like never before — all attached to their unique metaverse passport.

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Chief Technology Officer

LTAI

Jul 2021 - Apr 2022 (10 months)

- LiberaTrade is an Artificial Intelligence (LTAI) company that uses the power of data to stimulate demand and grow sales, while sharing these demand insights with suppliers and logistics partners to make sure required inventory can be sold
- Current markets include Indonesia, Pakistan, Hong Kong, and North America.

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Director

EQUITIS

May 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 8 months)

- Led previous secured note holders to acquire AMP assets and clients due to funding issues caused by COVID-19
- Created new entity to maintain platform for existing clients and future growth of the venture as an ongoing concern.

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Chief Technology Officer

EQUITIS

Dec 2019 - May 2020 (6 months)

- Led strategy for the technology platform, external partnerships and relationships, and developed and managed the technology team. Established technical standards and governance, whilst remaining agile to market
- Established the technical vision and led all aspects of technology development and infrastructure for the next generation company evolution as a leading provider of fully digital SME

Executive Director

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Apr 2017 - May 2019 (2 years 2 months)

- Responsible for driving Global Technology strategy and innovation across all lines of business, as well as establishing the strategic and emerging technology relationships for the Asia Pacific markets
- Designed regional FinTech strategy to engage the wider technology ecosystem to accelerate strategic business initiatives, as well as shaping business strategy through ideation sessions and acting as advisor on technology trends
- Led regional teams in developing events, communications, and programmes to foster innovative thinking and collaboration amongst teams, whilst coordinating firm wide innovation programmes to recognise thought leaders and inventors.

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Founder

zerokelvin labs

May 2016 - Apr 2017 (1 year)

- Consultancy providing digital strategy and innovation for startups and tenured companies.

Head of Technology - Digital

Prudential Corporation Asia

Aug 2015 - Feb 2016 (7 months)

- As the first member of the newly created Digital technology division wrote the two year strategy for digital foundation for the regional organisation and set the five year vision across four sub-divisional areas of focus.
- Designed resource plan to sustain the required significant growth and ambition of senior management. Set the hiring standards and guidelines to achieve a "startup within corporate" culture of accountability, with consistent delivery.
- Delivered version one of a new electronic point of sale in Thailand in three months, amid significant local organisational change: acted in roles from programme director to developer advisor.

Senior Director, Technology

Yougov

Jan 2014 - Jul 2015 (1 year 7 months)

Head Asia-Pacific technology and lead execution and development of global collaboration projects, building best in class End User software services. Led the integration of infrastructure and application services into the new organisation as YouGov acquired Decision Fuel, reviewing the overall technology stack and identifying opportunities and challenges.

Chief Technology Officer

Yougov

Mar 2012 - Jan 2014 (1 year 11 months)

- Set strategic and architectural vision for all aspects of product and technology development to deliver the Decision Fuel research platform to market, eventually leading to the successful acquisition of the company by YouGov in January 2014.
- This innovative product regularly engaged over a million respondents across Asia Pacific turning data into insights for clients within 24 hours.
- All respondent and client interactions were managed through a single, highly scalable, white-labelled platform for all parts of the research lifecycle.

Advisory Board Member - Technology Strategy

Yougov

Sep 2010 - Mar 2012 (1 year 7 months)

Advisor for technology strategy from early stages of product design and development through to soft launch of product. Guidance on: roadmap, implementation and infrastructure decisions, budget planning, due diligence.

Vice President

Deutsche Bank

May 2010 - Sep 2011 (1 year 5 months)

- Led service delivery of all equity asset classes across Asia Pacific including driving stability programmes, high availability, and core response levels for incident and problem management.
- Defined regional improvement strategy, process re-engineering and complexity reduction.
- Devised and implemented a light touch, high impact communications platform, which drastically improved the level and consistency of information provided to business units during incidents.
Managed regional budget and cost reduction initiatives. Additional responsibilities; Audit and Regulatory Single Point of Contact, Business Continuity Management, Offshore Vendor Management, Country Head of Production Management for Hong Kong, China and Korea, C

Vice President

Morgan Stanley

Sep 2007 - May 2010 (2 years 9 months)

- Led the the build-out, restructuring and development of Equity DSP, Risk & GCM teams. Building strong relationships with key business heads to adequately respond to and service their needs.
- Quickly developed proactive team, coaching new and existing junior resources in best-practice methodologies, and effectively building on the various levels of expertise to create a strong and supportive multi-location organisation.
- Stability Management, Business Continuity Management, Chairman of Regional IT Social Committee, Member of Charity Committee, Member of Diversity Committee

Associate Director

Barclays Capital

Mar 2006 - Aug 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Led the build out of cross-country Asia-Pacific Credit Trading and Credit Derivative Technology teams to better respond to regional business requirements. Transition of organisation from reactive to proactive management of requests and issue tracking. Initiation of prioritisation forum for key stakeholders to give overall visibility for regional Credit technology. Design and architecture of tactical platform for exotic bespoke trades in the Asian markets due to increased volumes of complex structured trades. Execution and direction of development team's effort. Additional responsibilities; Graduate Recruitment Programme, Business Continuity Management

Consultant, Credit Derivative Trading & Risk Management Platforms

TD Securities

Aug 2004 - Oct 2005 (1 year 3 months)

- Responsible for the development and maintenance of all Front, Middle and Back Office systems. Facing off to the Traders, Risk and Product Control teams on a daily basis to maintain and enhance all current systems.
- Architected and implemented a complete systems infrastructure overhaul to reduce daily support to an absolute minimum utilising distributed computing technology.

Consultant, Credit Derivative Trading Platform

Royal Bank of Scotland

Jun 2003 - Aug 2004 (1 year 3 months)

Analysis, design and development of Front Office workflow and tracking system for Credit management as part of the new Credit Default Swap system. Carrying out analysis with traders of current working patterns to streamline workflows ensuring all trades are properly hedged in the event of defaults. Development of Front Office Credit Marketing Analysis tool for Credit Grades, Bond Pricing and Risky Curves, running against Xenomorph, to allow traders to value, track and monitor data on-the-fly. Linked to Bloomberg and internal bank systems to extract pricing data and calculated using internal analytics. Design and development of Portfolio Analysis tool for traders to price complex portfolio baskets for clients integrating with Bloomberg and i

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Consultant, Private Equity Fund Management Platform

The Wellcome Trust

Mar 2001 - Jun 2003 (2 years 4 months)

Led development of Investment department's innovative new Private Equity System, which handled £3 billion investment portfolio in global funds and stocks. A distributed system utilising Visual Basic, SQL Server and Microsoft Transaction server with MS Office integration and automated external feeds. Translating system from linked Excel spreadsheets to SQL and VB.

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Consultant, Global Logistics System

Hapag-Lloyd AG (formerly CP Ships Logistics)

Aug 1999 - Mar 2001 (1 year 8 months)

Responsible for developing a business critical logistics system combining data from five subsidary company legacy systems to reduce the business costs of in-country container tracking and movements.

Consultant, Year 2000 Project

Nationwide Building Society

May 1999 - Jul 1999 (3 months)

Year 2000 HR Reporting Upgrade Project

Consultant, Year 2000 Project

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Mar 1999 - May 1999 (3 months)

Year 2000 IT Reporting and Database Upgrade Project

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Analyst

Virgin Media Network's 'VM WIFI

Sep 1998 - Mar 1999 (7 months)

Marketing and Call Centre Database Analyst. Reports, Analysis, Call Centre Outbound Operations System.

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