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With over 24 years of experience in FinTech, Riley Pierce is a global leader in industry standards and a seasoned architect and developer of complex data models. She brings clarity to complex FinTech architecture problems in both traditional trade and post-trade domains and the newly emerging landscape of distributed ledger, blockchain, and cryptocurrency.She excels at analyzing business processes, decomposing them into the detail-oriented realm of drafting requirements, workflows, and messaging specifications. Riley can take this to the next level: collaboration with industry standards bodies, balancing the needs of all stakeholders while maintaining the architectural integrity of the standard.Riley’s 9 US patent applications demonstrate her ingenuity as a serial inventor and creative problem solver. This inventive drive spills over into her passion for making things. Things with stories. Things at the intersection of technical skill, science, imagination, and history. Things that draw upon her unique, diverse experiences.She contributed to the Zcash Powers of Tau multiparty computation, collaborating with UIUC Asst. Prof. Andrew Miller to integrate Riley's interest in nuclear physics and radiation detection. Riley used her electronics and microcontroller programming skills to build a Geiger counter that acts as a random number generator with a harmless reactor graphite sample from Chernobyl as its cryptographic entropy source. To secure the process against eavesdropping, they performed the computation in a small airplane that Riley piloted.Riley is a highly versatile communicator when presenting to technical and business audiences. She's presented diverse topics on four continents, and coached an executive to present blockchain to Nobel laureates in economics.Riley brings her deep industry experience, creativity, discernment, precision, and passion when building business architecture, along with divergent, unique ideas, and the technical know-how to make them real.