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Alex Burns is Senior Vice President, Digital Assets, Product & Innovation at BNY, a position he has held since March 2026. He focuses on the role blockchain and tokenisation can play in the evolution of financial market infrastructure and capital markets. Prior to this role, he served as Vice President in the same Digital Assets, Product & Innovation division from March 2024 to February 2026, and as Programme Manager at BNY from September 2023 to February 2024.

Alongside his BNY role, Burns serves as Training Major for Cyber & Drone Capability in the British Army Reserve, a position he has held since October 2023. His earlier British Army roles included Chief Intelligence and Security Officer, in which he led a team of intelligence specialists in Eastern Europe and delivered weekly intelligence assessments on the Russia-Ukraine conflict to senior military officers, and Head of Operations, where he was part of a team that established a brigade headquarters. Burns is pursuing a London Executive MBA at the University of Warwick.

Carolyn Weinberg is Chief Product and Innovation Officer at BNY and a member of the company's Executive Committee. She joined BNY in February 2025, appointed to find new ways to use platforms and data to create client-centric solutions. Her mandate covers product innovation, development, and commercialization. Her direct reports include a Managing Director for Product & Innovation in Digital Assets, alongside heads of product strategy, product governance, and technical product management.

Prior to BNY, Weinberg served as Chief Product Innovation Officer at BlackRock, where she led product innovation, development, and commercialization globally. Her remit at BlackRock included digital assets, fixed income, transition finance, and private markets. Earlier at BlackRock, she was Global Head of Product for iShares and Index Investments, where she drove growth in fixed income ETFs and sustainable indexing, built a sustainable index research team, and developed data and trading ventures. Before BlackRock, she was Head of the North America Corporate Solutions Group at Citibank, Head of Risk Solutions Structuring at Deutsche Bank, a member of Morgan Stanley's Corporate Derivatives Group, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. She has four times appeared on Barron's list of "100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance." Weinberg graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in applied mathematics and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the Board of the Allen-Stevenson School, on the Dean's Advisory Council of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and as an Ambassador on the Board of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Foundation. She is also an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.

Dylan Dwyer is Vice President, Digital Asset Custody Operations at BNY, a position he assumed in January 2026 within the bank's Product and Innovation Hub. He sits within BNY's Digital Assets Division alongside a team of specialists covering product management, risk, compliance, and technology for the bank's digital asset offerings. Prior to this promotion, he served as Senior Associate in the same Digital Asset Custody Operations function at BNY from November 2024 to January 2026.

Before joining BNY, Dwyer spent approximately two and a half years at Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange and custody firm, where he held two roles: Analyst in Client Service from March 2021 to July 2022, followed by Associate in Custody Operations from July 2022 to November 2024. His cumulative focus on digital asset custody operations spans both a crypto-native firm and one of the world's oldest financial institutions. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Dayton, where he studied from 2016 to 2020, and previously attended Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York.

Iain Monk is Director, Digital Asset Custody at BNY, a position he has held since November 2025. His focus is on creating and designing digital asset propositions, with a particular interest in the mainstream adoption of stablecoins for cross-border payments. His work involves deep analysis of payment flows and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency in how money moves across borders.

Prior to BNY, Monk held a product and strategy role at ClearBank, where he developed strategies, business cases, and led partnership and business development initiatives around digital asset technology and its revenue opportunities. Before that, he worked at Ripple, where he contributed to the development of the Standard RippleNet Payment Object (SRPO), a global data standard for payments built in collaboration with RippleNet participants and informed by data from over 100 payment schemes worldwide. Alongside his role at BNY, Monk is currently serving as Stablecoin Product and Operations advisor at Haycen, a multi-currency stablecoin platform focused on B2B global trade, and is advising independently on digital asset strategy for a cross-border payments start-up and a stablecoin start-up. His total professional experience spans approximately 18 years. No educational details are available in the source content.

Karm S. is Senior Vice President, Digital Assets – Product & Innovation at BNY, a role he has held since October 2025. He owns product across digital asset custody, asset onboarding and evaluation, and compliance infrastructure for BNY's institutional digital asset platform.

Prior to BNY, Karm spent over a decade at Moody's Corporation, most recently as Director Manager, Product Strategy – Innovation from January 2022 to January 2025. In that role he led a global team of product managers building early-stage fintech products, including a blockchain analytics KYC platform developed in partnership with Elliptic, an investigations and enhanced due diligence tool, a sanctions extension product, and a shell company indicator. He expanded Moody's supply chain risk market through a co-developed sub-tier supplier risk solution and secured $20M in influenced revenue by embedding risk solutions into Salesforce and Coupa via GTM partnerships. His total professional experience spans approximately 14 years. He is based in New York.

Mohamad Zaraket is Head of Digital Assets Strategy, EMEA at BNY, a position he has held since July 2021. In this role, he leads commercial strategy and growth across the EMEA region, with responsibilities covering go-to-market planning, client partnership development, and scaling revenue across major financial hubs. His focus spans bridging fintech and traditional finance, building client adoption across institutional segments including banking, asset management, and wealth management, and developing partnerships with industry bodies, fintechs, and startups.

Prior to his current role, Zaraket held positions at BNY including Vice President for the EMEA Region and Director of EMEA Digital Strategy. He has over 15 years of experience in global banking, with career history spanning London, Brussels, New York, and Dubai. He holds an MSc in Finance and Investment from the University of Edinburgh and a Post Master's Degree in Entrepreneurship from the University of Cambridge. Outside his primary role, he produces and hosts a podcast, Lessons of Innovation, featuring conversations with innovators, academics, authors, and entrepreneurs. He has spoken at the European Blockchain Convention 2022.

Patrick Corker is Managing Director, Product Innovation - Digital Assets at BNY, a position he has held since June 2025. Within that role he serves as Head of Digital Cash, Collateral and Payments for the Product & Innovation Hub. In that capacity he has spoken publicly on BNY's efforts to bring its traditional financial infrastructure to the digital economy, enabling clients to invest with greater flexibility, reduce operational friction and access programmable finance. His work sits within BNY's Digital Assets Division.

Prior to joining BNY, Corker was Chief Business Officer and Head of Strategy at Lukka, where he built the Strategy Office covering corporate development, corporate strategy, regulatory affairs and strategic business development, from February 2024 to May 2025. Before that, he spent nearly six years as Treasurer at Circle, where he built and ran the Treasury department and was a founding architect of USDC, responsible for all operational infrastructure supporting the stablecoin. Earlier in his career he held roles at MIAX Derivatives Exchange as Head of Finance & Operations, and worked as a consultant at Goldman Sachs. He also held positions focused on operational risk and finance at Goldman Sachs and Deloitte. Corker holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame.

Richard Majid is Vice President – Digital Assets at BNY Mellon, based in Manchester, United Kingdom, a position he has held since 2022. The source does not detail his specific internal mandate, products, or initiatives within the digital assets function.

Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Majid spent two years at Global Reach Group as Senior Strategist in FX Options (2020–2022), and before that held a Senior Currency Consultant role focused on FX Options at Lumon (2018–2020). Earlier positions include Sales Director and Shareholder at Claydon Partners Limited (2017–2018), Senior Currency Consultant at Currencies Direct (2015–2016), and Business Development Manager for Corporate and Institutional Treasury at Investec (2013–2014). He also held currency consultant roles at Currencies Direct covering corporate FX in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the North West between 2012 and 2013. Earlier in his career he worked at STM Group PLC, serving as Senior Business Development Manager for Trust and Company (2009–2010) and Group Business Development and Marketing Manager (2010). Majid holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from The University of Manchester, awarded in 2003.

Scott James is Senior Vice President, Digital Assets Technology at BNY, a position he has held since June 2022. In this role, his stated mandate centers on engineering leadership and secure digital asset infrastructure for institutional custody.

Prior to joining BNY, James spent approximately five years at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado, progressing from Software Engineer to Staff Software Engineer. His work there included developing commanding and telemetry ground software for NASA's Orion spacecraft, implementing object-oriented C++ in a Red Hat Linux environment to receive, decommutate, distribute, and archive high-rate telemetry data. He also managed the building and packaging of software releases using GNU Autotools, Jenkins, and RPM. Earlier in his tenure at Lockheed Martin, he worked on embedded software in C for the RFSE (Re-Entry Field Support Equipment) program, contributing to a team responsible for software design, coding, and testing across a console containing nine microcontrollers. Before Lockheed Martin, James held roles as a Mobile Software Developer during his time at Penn State University, and as a College Student Tech Sr. and Tech Spec, where he developed calibration and measurement software. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Penn State University.