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Benjamin Wellmann is Executive Director, Web3 Data Products at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a position he has held since August 2024. In this role he leads Web3 data product development within DTCC's product organisation. Concurrently, since March 2026 he has served as Head of AI Product at Consello, a financial services advisory and strategic investing platform.

Prior to joining DTCC, Wellmann held several senior roles at FIS Global. From December 2023 to August 2024 he served as Sr. Director of Data & AI Products, covering Financial Intelligence products including Fraud, Risk, and KYC/KYB. Before that, from June 2022 to December 2023, he was Sr. Director on FIS Impact Ventures, the firm's corporate venture capital arm, focused on early-stage startup investment, venture fund commitments, and new company creation with venture studio partners. From March 2020 to June 2022 he led Enterprise Machine Learning & Data Science as Director of Data Science, building cross-functional teams and filing patents on novel AI inventions. He holds 20 or more AI and FinTech patents filed. Earlier in his career he spent approximately four and a half years at Ernst & Young in the United States across Financial Services Advisory and Forensic Data Science & Analytics roles, preceded by a forensic technology consultancy position at Ernst & Young in Germany. He also holds experience as a Limited Partner in Future Africa, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on African markets, a commitment he made from July 2022. His stated areas of personal focus include global macroeconomics, capital markets, and impact investing with emphasis on Africa and South America.

Jamshaid Ikram is a Principal Software Engineer – Associate Director, Digital Assets Tokenization Blockchain at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. He has held the Associate Director title since January 2026, with his remit specifically covering digital assets, tokenization, and blockchain. His tenure at DTCC began in September 2021, initially as Principal Software Engineer at the Associate Director level across Java, Angular, Javascript, and AWS.

Ikram is a full stack software engineer with a stated focus on cloud-native, distributed, and scalable solutions, working across Java, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, and AWS. He has led large-scale enterprise modernization programs at DTCC, including the architecture of Angular micro frontend structures and Java Spring Boot-based microservices deployed to cloud-native platforms. He cites measurable improvements in application performance and delivery cycle speed as outcomes of these initiatives. His technical scope spans frontend and backend development, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, containerization via Docker and Kubernetes, and generative AI tooling. Prior to DTCC, his experience covered the investment banking, eCommerce, and healthcare sectors. His total professional experience is stated as eight and a half years. No educational details are present in the source content.

Joseph Spiro is Digital Assets Product Director at The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a position he has held since December 2024. In this role, he is focused on building the infrastructure to help coalesce the industry around the tokenisation of assets as collateral.

Spiro has worked in collateral management for over 25 years. Prior to joining DTCC, he served as Senior Product Director at Hazeltree, where he led collateral and margin products within the firm's treasury management suite and defined the firm's strategy for support of digital assets, including crypto and tokenised assets. Before Hazeltree, he was Director and New York Head of Collateral at Société Générale, where he led the global implementation of UMR phases 1 through 3. He has also held leadership positions at Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, and BNY Mellon, in each case focused on operational and cost efficiency and regulatory compliance within the collateral process. He has contributed to ISDA working groups on collateral management and has authored contributions to ISDA publications in the field. Spiro holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Rutgers University, a Master of Business Administration from New York University Stern School of Business, and is a member of American Mensa.

Matthew Ducie is Executive Director, Digital Assets at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a position he has held since December 2025, based in Jersey City, NJ.

Prior to joining DTCC, Ducie spent approximately nine years at State Street in Boston, holding a succession of roles of increasing seniority. He served as Managing Director, Alpha Sales from May 2025 to January 2026, and as Managing Director, Alpha Service from August 2022 to May 2025. Earlier at State Street, he was Vice President of Alpha Platform Service from April 2019 to August 2022, and Vice President, FX Product Manager from September 2016 to April 2019. Before State Street, he was a Senior Manager at Fidelity Investments in Boston from March 2012 to September 2016. His total professional experience spans approximately 19 years.

Michael London is Director of Digital Asset Issuance Services at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a position he has held since January 2024. In this role, he acts as Product Manager for Digital Asset Issuance & Servicing, developing and enhancing solutions for the primary market tokenization of investment funds and other assets including commodities. He also assesses and implements the use of blockchain technology as part of DTCC's financial market infrastructure offering.

London joined DTCC following its acquisition of Securrency in late 2023. Prior to that acquisition, he served as Digital Product Manager at Securrency from January 2022 to January 2023, where the firm was building a platform for the tokenization and management of digital assets, with capabilities spanning multiple blockchains, marketplace creation, cap table and registry management, AML-compliant wallet management, and ledger scanning for positions and transaction analytics. Before his digital assets focus, London held Director of Product Management roles at Deutsche Bank and BNY Mellon, where he worked across areas including cash management and treasury services, FX payments, escrow, correspondent banking and clearing, debt issuing and paying agency services, syndicated loan administration, collateralized loan obligations, asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities, hedge fund administration, and custody. His total professional experience spans approximately 20 years in the financial services sector. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and is pursuing an MBA at INSEAD.

Nadine Chakar is Managing Director, Global Head of DTCC Digital Assets at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a position she has held since January 2023. She oversees the firm's digital asset technology — formerly operating as Securrency — and partners with clients and key stakeholders to transform operating models and create new digital asset services. She is a member of the DTCC Executive Committee. Her stated mandate is to build digital financial market infrastructure that delivers the same level of trust, scalability, and resiliency to digital assets as DTCC provides to traditional markets.

Prior to DTCC, Chakar served as Chief Executive Officer at Securrency, an institutional-grade digital asset technology provider that DTCC acquired in October 2023. Before that, she was Executive Vice President and Head of State Street Digital, where she oversaw the setup of a new integrated business and operating model covering pre-trade, trade, and post-trade support for clients' digital investment activities. She also held the role of Executive Vice President and Head of State Street Global Markets, and previously held positions at Manulife and BNY Mellon. In 2023, she was named one of American Banker's most influential women in Fintech; she appeared on American Banker's Most Powerful Women in Finance list in 2020, 2021, and 2022, and was included in Forbes Magazine's 50 over 50 in 2022. She serves on the Board of Trustees for Boston Medical Center and is a member of the CFTC's Global Markets Advisory Committee, co-chairing the Digital Asset Subcommittee workstream on Tokenization Infrastructure. Chakar holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Finance from Boston University.

Yawo Amegadje is Associate Director at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a position he has held since January 2020, based in the Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida area. In this role, he leads a Test Automation Frameworks Development Team, working with technologies including Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Selenium, containers, and cloud infrastructure.

Amegadje has pursued independent blockchain and AI projects alongside his institutional role. On the blockchain side, he developed and deployed an ERC20 token contract on the Ethereum Testnet using Solidity, and built several utilities including a Token Pairs Listener and Processor using ethers.js compatible with ERC and Base chains, a Wallet Connection and Transfer Events Tracker, and a Solana Tokens Analyzer Bot for monitoring price trends, market cap, and historical data. On the AI side, he developed a bot to generate AI images from user prompts in Python, built a basic image processor using Python-based libraries, and explored projects focused on Neural Networks and TensorFlow. Prior to his current role, Amegadje served at DTCC as Lead Automation Engineer Manager from February 2017 to December 2019, and before that as a Senior Automation Engineer on a consulting basis through DISYS, working within the Global Trade Repository automation team from May 2016 to February 2017. He has over 20 years of professional IT software engineering experience. His academic background includes a Master's in Electrical Engineering.

Yevhen Kochuh is Director of Engineering, Digital Assets at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a position he has held since December 2023, based in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. He leads engineering within DTCC Digital Assets, where his stated focus is making teams and programs better.

Prior to his current role, Kochuh served as Director of Engineering at Securrency from July 2022 to November 2023, before Securrency was absorbed into DTCC. In that capacity, he led an engineering team of up to 100 people, managed release processes, and worked with clients on architecture and technology adoption. Securrency operated as a fintech platform applying blockchain and smart contract technology to asset securitization. Before joining Securrency, Kochuh spent nine months at Ciklum as Head of Business Analysis Office, managing a business analysis function of over 40 people across multiple projects and supporting business development in retail and fintech. His total professional experience spans approximately 12 years.