THORSTEN PEISL, CEO

Thorsten started working at Deutsche Bank and spent most of his career at State Street, a global settlement and safekeeping institution with USD 20-30trn assets under administration. During his 15 years in the industry he was driving multi-million dollar revenue products from concept to market adoption; he initiated and launched a firm wide corporate venture program to scout and invest in innovative and strategically aligned FinTech startups. Thorsten also established an entirely new business division as part of the management team. He grew up in Austria, completed programs at LBS, IMD, Harvard and has lived and worked in Frankfurt, London, New York, Boston, and Singapore.

Arne Brutschy, Head of Technology

Arne is responsible for the overall technical development of our distributed multi-asset issuance, settlement, and recordkeeping solution. He started as systems engineer in the crypto currency space and masters scaleability and performance requirements for our next generation, fit-for-post-trade distributed ledger. Prior to RISE, with his German engineering mindset he has architected a series of blockchain services that have proven to be secure and scalable. Three of the top ten Bitcoin addresses of all time (measured by number of transactions) belong to the services he created. Arne holds a PhD in distributed artificial intelligence.

Rehan O'Grady, Head of Advisory

Rehan is responsible to understand client problems and to translate them into distributed solutions based on RISE technology. He co-founded the blockchain technology firm that was acquired by RISE. Rehan has a long history of delivering enterprise innovation. He took his own patented invention on network outage detection from concept through to delivery. Rehan has pre-sales, post-sales and program management experience with clients all over the world. Rehan’s passion for distributed systems led to a PhD in swarm robotics, and then into blockchains. Together with Arne and Jeremie he has developed privacy focused digital currency services. Rehan is British and grew up in Kensington, London.

Jeremie Dubois-Lacoste, Head of Research

Jeremie is a pioneering entrepreneur and developer in the crypto currency space. For RISE's specialised distributed settlement solution Jeremie manages the work effort around data confidentiality. Among many other achievements, services he developed together with Arne account for 5% of total Bitcoin transaction volume worldwide. Jeremie is a high visibility blockchain expert and is frequently invited to give talks at high profile government institutions and corporations. His blockchain expertise, together with his PhD in combinatorial algorithms qualifies him perfectly to deliver blockchain innovation for RISE. Jeremie is French and spends significant time in Brussels.