About Frederik Gregaard

Frederik Gregaard is passionate about how technology enables new business models, bringing trust back into banking and trail running. Frederik Gregaard is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cardano foundation. Cardano is an open platform that seeks to provide economic identity to the billions who lack it by providing decentralized applications to manage identity, value and governance. Frederik has more than a decade experience in Banking, Wealth Management & Asset Management. He is a certified currency trader and digital asset management expert. Frederik Gregaard advises Regulators, Banks and Asset Managers on how digital business models will impact their sector and how technology such as Blockchain, DLT, Big Data and AI will affect their businesses in the short and medium term. Frederik Gregaard is a mentor for several Fintech Scale-ups and a driver in the F10 Fintech incubator. He has worked with a larger number of Fintech companies in Switzerland and abroad predominantly covering DLT, Robo Advisors, Asset Allocation and KYC automatization, has built operational and trading infrastructure for more than 100 Asset Managers and been a part of implementing and advising on crypto currencies for Swiss banks and Infrastructure providers. Selected Experience - Build and operated OTC Exchanges, Liquidity pools, High Frequency Trading, Robot Advisors - Implemented OPEN APIs and Build & Operated infrastructure for >100 External Asset Managers, Private Banks and Universal Banks. - Fund Administration Services; Build a target operating model, and infrastructure for a Lichtenstein based Fund Administrator and Custodian bank including broker setup, transfer agent services and depository services Build Interbank Trading frontend, backend and liquidity pools for global private bank. Full end to end infrastructure, including on-boarding of banks and integration to the existing trading floor repository of processes and systems - Build a Blockchain enabled Private Banking infrastructure on a greenfield. - Implemented Bitcoin & Altcoin for Several Swiss Banks; Assessment of counter-party risk, sourcing of liquidity risk, integration to existing trading infrastructure & treasury, education of the various business units and design of the business model