Duncan Smith

Duncan Smith is Chief Risk Officer (CRO) at Uphold, a position he has held since January 2023, based in Braga, Portugal. He also serves as Director of Uphold Digital Assets Europe Lda, a directorship he assumed in January 2025. Prior to becoming CRO, he served as Head of Financial Risk at Uphold from October 2022 to January 2023, and before that as Senior Trading System Engineer at the same company from January 2022 to October 2022.

Earlier in his career, Smith worked as a Contract Developer at Credit Suisse from March 2010 to July 2019, where he worked on Mars, the bank's market risk calculation engine. Before that, he was an Assistant Vice President at Barclays Capital from June 2008 to March 2010, where he designed, developed, supported, tested, and released FX and credit components of the FOToolkit, including an Excel plug-in providing quantitative functions for 7,000 Excel users. He also held a directorship at DVS Engineering Ltd from March 2010 to December 2021, and worked as a Developer at StoreTech from October 2019 to November 2021. Smith holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Loughborough University, where he studied from 2004 to 2009, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Leeds, where he studied from 1997 to 2001.