Director
David Reed is Director, Capital Markets – Digital Assets & ESG at Invesco, where he sits within the Capital Markets Governance Team. In this role, he is part of a cross-functional group examining the application of digital assets across crypto products, tokenisation, and distributed ledger technology (DLT). He is co-author of a whitepaper produced jointly with Boston Consulting Group and Aptos Labs titled "Tokenized Funds: The Third Revolution in Asset Management," published in October 2024.
Reed's career in asset management spans more than 30 years. At Columbia Threadneedle, he headed the Direct Retail Client business and was responsible for shifting the distribution model to a digital channel. At JP Morgan Asset Management, he was responsible for rolling out a global client engagement platform. He also co-founded a specialist consultancy focused on platform distribution in EMEA, working with financial institutions to integrate that capability within their organisations. He holds a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Plymouth.
Global Head of Digital Assets
Howard Meng is Global Head of Digital Assets at Invesco Ltd., a position he has held since January 2024. In this role, he participates in the development of institutional-grade digital custody solutions and has established compliance monitoring partnerships with Chainalysis and Fireblocks.
Prior to joining Invesco, Meng spent six years at JPMorgan Chase across two successive roles. As Executive Director, Global Technology Strategy from 2021 to 2024, he worked on the Onyx Digital Assets strategy and designed institutional-grade DeFi architecture. From 2018 to 2021, as Executive Director and DLT Strategy Lead within the Chief Technology Office, he participated in the Quorum-based interbank clearing network and established a DLT governance framework to execute ISDA derivatives contract terms through smart contracts. Before JPMorgan Chase, he served as Global Digital Product Director at Deutsche Bank from 2015 to 2018, where he led an Open Banking API project. His career spans over 23 years in financial services. His educational background includes a degree from the Brandeis School of Business.
Global Head of Digital Assets
Kathleen Wrynn is Global Head of Digital Assets at Invesco Ltd., a position she has held since June 2025. Within Invesco's newly formed Product Division, she leads the strategic direction and management of the digital asset portfolio, which includes tokenized assets, crypto-linked products in traditional investment vehicles, and cross-functional collaboration to explore blockchain applications across the enterprise. In March 2026, she represented Invesco in its partnership with Superstate, under which Invesco Advisers became investment manager of the Superstate Short Duration US Government Securities Fund (USTB), a tokenized short-duration U.S. treasuries fund. Invesco became the first asset manager to use Superstate's digital transfer agent infrastructure through this collaboration.
Wrynn has been active in the blockchain space for over ten years and focused full-time on digital assets for five years prior to her current role, holding leadership positions at JPMorgan Chase and DWS. She has approximately two decades of experience at the intersection of asset management and technology, with a background in product development, strategy, operations, and digital marketing. Outside of Invesco, she serves as a Digital Assets Steering Committee Member at the World Economic Forum and Co-Chair of the Digital Assets Committee at Nicsa, both roles taken on in October 2025. She has also been a Board Member at Lesbians Who Tech since July 2023.
Global Head of Digital Assets
Kathleen Wrynn is the Global Head of Digital Assets at Invesco, leading strategy and execution for digital asset initiatives including tokenized products, crypto-linked offerings, and blockchain applications. She has over 25 years of experience in finance and technology.







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