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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.

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.

Jason Monk is Director, Capital Markets and Digital Assets Product Strategy at Invesco Ltd., a role he has held since January 2022. In this position, he is responsible for supporting growth plans and capability development across Invesco's capital markets businesses globally.

Prior to this role, Monk held two earlier positions at Invesco: Senior Associate in Securities Lending from January 2021 to January 2022, where he expanded program assets globally and oversaw implementation of a consistent oversight framework, and Principal Internal Consultant from October 2019 to January 2021, where he managed execution of strategic projects for business partners. Before joining Invesco, he was a Manager at PwC, where his project work included standing up a procurement function as part of a carve out, developing value capture plans, conducting make versus buy analyses, integrating planning and operations departments, and evaluating facility management services. Earlier in his career, he worked at Eli Lilly in capital project, reliability, and process engineering roles, delivering projects that included an application software upgrade for over 100 users, productivity improvements, and reductions in environmental impact. He also interned at New York City Transit's Strategic Initiatives group during business school. Monk holds an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business with specializations in Finance and Entrepreneurship, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University. His total professional experience spans approximately 18 years.