
Digital Asset Product Leader
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Director / Digital Asset Custody - Broking Leader
Carly Syrett is Director, Digital Asset Custody – Broking Leader at Aon, a position she has held since January 2026. Prior to this, she served as Associate Director at Aon from October 2024 to January 2026, based in London. Her current role focuses specifically on digital asset custody broking, representing a direct extension of her background in specialist insurance lines.
Syrett joined Aon in January 2022 as a Specie and Fine Art Broker, a position she held until October 2024. Before Aon, she spent approximately four and a half years at Willis Towers Watson as an Account Handler covering Fine Art, Jewellery, and Specie, from September 2017 to February 2022. Her career spans roughly eight years in specialist broking across specie, fine art, jewellery, and, most recently, digital asset custody. No information on her educational background is available in the source content.

Digital Asset Leader
Rupert Poland is Head of EMEA Digital Asset Practice at Aon, appointed to the role in June 2025 and based in London. He reports to Tom Davis, Executive Director of the EMEA Financial Services Group. In this capacity, Poland works with a team of more than 60 professionals to expand Aon's digital asset practice, developing risk solutions and specialist insurance offerings for the sector. Aon's current digital asset work includes insurance covering theft, loss and destruction of digital assets, staking insurance, and risk transfer solutions spanning captives and credit facility development, serving both crypto-native and traditional financial institutions. Poland is also a speaker in Aon's webinar series on digital assets aimed at risk, treasury and finance leaders at financial institutions, covering stablecoins, tokenised assets and practical risk considerations.
Before joining Aon, Poland spent approximately six years at Marsh McLennan. He joined through a graduate development programme in September 2019, progressing through financial institutions insurance broking roles before becoming Assistant Vice President in October 2021. He was promoted to Vice President in August 2022 and served as Digital Asset Leader for UK FINPRO from October 2023 until his move to Aon in June 2025. During his time at Marsh, he was a member of the global Digital Asset Risk Transfer team and developed market-recognised insurance solutions and risk quantification frameworks for digital asset companies. Earlier in his career, he shadowed a senior underwriter at MS Amlin in Lloyd's of London in June 2018. Poland holds a First Class Bachelor of Science with Honours in Biological Sciences from the University of Exeter, awarded with the Dean's commendation.








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