Digital Asset, a New York-based startup focused on developing of distributed ledger technology for the financial services industry, has announced the appointment of several key senior executives across its global offices.

Carol Mathis will be joining the startup as Chief Financial Officer and will bring her extensive leadership experience in finance, treasury and operations to Digital Asset. Mathis joins from RBS Corporate and Institutional Bank where she was Chief Operating Officer and previously CFO. Before joining RBS, Mathis was a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in its Capital Markets Assurance Division where she spent twelve years.

In addition, the company has also hired former J.P.Morgan HR Managing Director Josh Varsano as Chief Human Resources Officer; Gavin Wells, industry executive and former Managing Director at Citigroup, as Head of Europe; industry veteran Kelly Mathieson as Product Manager; former Bank of America Merrill Lynch executive Gordon Weir as Head of Delivery; Andrew Pisano, who joins from CME Group’s Digitization Group with experience in distributed ledger, as Business Development Director; former RBS Director of Financial Planning and Analysis Emnet Rios as Director of Finance and Operations; and Martin Korbmacher, Founder and Managing Director of Event Horizon Capital & Advisory GmbH, as a Strategic Advisor to help scale Digital Asset’s accelerated growth.

Mathis, Varsano, Mathieson, Pisano and Rios are based in New York, while Wells and Weir are based in London. Korbmacher will be based in Frankfurt. Together they represent over 170 years of experience in financial services and technology.

“I am delighted to welcome such talented and experienced individuals to our team. We are privileged to tap into the expertise of these world-class leaders with deep expertise and proven track records in the specific areas that will be critical to accelerating our efforts to the benefit of our customers,” said Blythe Masters, CEO of Digital Asset.

Earlier this year, Digital Asset announced that it was opening a London office to support its clients and increase its presence in the UK and European markets. Justin Amos, a former Managing Director at NICE Actimize was appointed as Head of Europe but shortly thereafter relocated to Sydney to build out Digital Asset’s Australia office following the selection by ASX to design the world’s first national scale post-trade solution utilizing distributed ledger technology. Wells has since taken over as Head of Europe with Amos taking on the role of Head of APAC.

Since launch, Digital Asset has sought complementary talent and technology by acquiring four companies: Hyperledger, Bits of Proof, Blockstack and Elevence. Last year, the firm became a founding premier member of the Linux Foundation’s open source Hyperledger Project, to drive the adoption and standardization of distributed ledger technology.