London and Luxembourg, 15 January 2024 – Montis Group today announced the Founding Members of its Advisory Council, in response to the rapid pace of digital transformation across global financial markets. The Advisory Council will help steer Montis on its journey as it launches its revolutionary digital Central Securities Depositary (CSD) service later this year, which provides the market infrastructure that is needed for regulated tokenised assets, in the form of digital securities, to achieve their full potential.
The Advisory Council comprises industry leaders and opinion formers who are perfectly placed to provide strategic advice, guidance, and expertise to the Montis leadership and management, as well as exchange views on legal, technical (DLT), tokenisation and related infrastructure matters.
The Founding Members of the Montis Group Advisory Council bring a wealth of experience from across the industry, including exchanges, investment banking, post-trade, legal, consulting, regulators, blockchain and industry bodies:
| Member | Experience | 
| Professor Monica Singer | 
First CEO of South Africa's CSD (STRATE)Vice Chair of GLEIF & Consensys senior strategist | 
| Marco Strimer | 
Chair of LME Clear & CEO of SIX x-clearSIX Group, Securities Services Division, Executive Board | 
| Kathleen Tyson | 
Former central banker and markets supervisorSerial global infrastructure innovator, i.e. Triparty Repo | 
| Andrew Simpson | 
Former regulator & Head of Post Trade at EuronextGroup Strategy and M&A advisor for BME | 
| Lawrence Wintermeyer | 
Chair of Global Digital Finance & CEO of Innovate Finance UKOECD Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board | 
| Dr. Pinar Emirdag | 
Global Head of Digital Services/Product at JP Morgan and State StreetHyperledger and R3 Advisory Boards | 
| Lodewijk van Setten | 
Director and General Counsel at Trilitech (core protocol and layer 2)Senior Counsel, Finance Institutions, Funds, and DLT at Walkers | 
| Dr. David Doyle | 
EU regulatory policy expertCross-EU parliamentary body, The Kangaroo Group Board Member | 
| Mark Berman | 
Member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar & the New York State Bar (ret.)Former lawyer with the Division of Market Regulation of the SEC | 
| Olaf Ransome | 
The Bankers' Plumber specialising on liquidityCSD Function Head at SDX & Industry Solutions Advisor at Fnality | 
| Shareen Qureshi | 
Senior partner for Astel VenturesSpearheaded wins for the first FinTech accelerator at Rise London | 
| Alan Philpot | 
Chief Product Officer DLT Solutions at Delta Capita DLSHead of Market Infrastructure and Custody Solutions at SETL | 
| Terry Gibson | 
DEX Executive Lead in UAE & Asia Pacific CSD Association LeadHead of Post Trade solutions at LSEG & SVP, Head of Product at SGX | 
| Martin Bartlam | 
Global Head of Fintech and Blockchain Practice at DLA PiperAdvisory Counsel Chair at GDF & FCA Digital Sandbox Mentor | 
| David Gest | 
Investor CSD solutions architect for ClearstreamFormer Head of Product at Montis | 
| Padmini Krishnan | 
Co-founder at CUVC and crypto/blockchain specialistCSDR and MiFID II Regulations Compliance at Montis and Goldman Sachs | 
 
 
Martin Watkins, CEO at Montis Group , comments:
“With our regulation in Luxembourg expected to be received in the first half of this year and the technology build in final testing, we are preparing to launch our digital CSD. Consequently, now is the right time to put in place our Advisory Council to help steer the business over the next phase of evolution as we go live and start to establish our place in the post-trade ecosystem. Montis’s revolutionary blockchain-agnostic solution will be at the heart of the new digitally-native financial markets infrastructure (“dFMI”), and the experience of these council members, working closely with myself, our chairman, David Lester, and our leadership team will mean we can leverage our innovation and firmly establish ourselves in the space.”