Keith Styrcula Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

• Working with a top five Global Asset Manager to launch a first-of-its-kind fintech venture that utilizes Web3 / blockchain-based technology to offer a white-listed, closed-loop ecosystem for cross-border B2B remittance.
• Target users are white-listed Fortune 500 companies, CFOs, treasury managers and private funds
• With a consortium of global players as partners, Glasstower's digital asset infrastructure to disrupt the five-decade-old, $1.25 quadrillion SWIFT interbank monopoly on cross-border remittance payments.
• GTM target date is February 2025.

Launched an independent SEC-registered alternative investments platform that created cutting-edge strategies, indexes and securities in funds, notes and trust vehicles. Partial list of partners and clients includes Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, BNP Paribas, First Trust, IndexIQ, Credit Suisse, AIG Financial Products, Standard & Poor's Indexes and.

• Responsible for product development, sales and business development for digital asset securities and tokenized funds for a start-up digital broker-dealer with an ATS.
• Digital Assets: developed a tokenized fund initiative with outreach to contacts at Blackrock, AllianceBernstein, Hamilton Lane, KKR. Devised a tradable Bitcoin volatility index for long-short trading (not yet in.
• Private Placements: Worked with Vertalo and Etana to build a fintech platform for trading pre-IPO secondary securities and Reg D capital raises.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Responsible for $6B+ in sales of index-linked, rates-linked and fund-linked structured notes issuance platform with top-tier global distribution partners.
• Directly responsible for onboarding multi-billion accounts such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo, Barclays, Raymond James, Commerzbank, Taiwan Post, Jefferies.
• Developed first-of-its-kind products for family offices / private funds including 3x award-winning research-driven indices for Raymond James.

• Created the 17,000-member trade association for the Structured Products industry. SPA members represent over 1,600 firms from the global mutual fund, insurance, UIT, ETF, pension, asset management and retail.
• Primary mission of SPA is to create global structured products community, interact with media and regulators, and mainstream the investment class.

• Responsible for the creation and development of a cutting-edge standalone, separately-licensed platform that brought unique payoff profiles and investment strategies to vehicles such as hedge funds, UITs, ETFs and.
• Created a joint venture between JPMorgan and First Trust for the distribution of fund products and structured notes.
• Developed strategies to bring a registered hedge-fund investment to mass affluent investors, and several other new strategies.

Wrote two financial thrillers, the last of which was THE VELOCITY OF MONEY, published by William Morrow, based on a true story of computerized financial trading. TVOM was published in five countries and four languages and was a Top 20 best-seller in Amazon's Thrillers list for two months. Film rights optioned by Will Smith. https://amzn.to/34FMQQX

Responsible for creating cutting edge U.S. equity and fund-linked structured products providing tax-advantaged, capital-guaranteed and leveraged exposure for high net worth and institutional investors.

• Created a global infrastructure for the 600-broker, 14-office Private Client Services group that went from zero-dollars to $1.2 billion in first year of existence.
• Platform included all asset classes: equity- and index-linked notes, yield-enhanced agency notes, capital-guaranteed hedge fund notes and customized currency and alternative asset-linked products for UHNW clients.
• Became the fastest-growing investment category in PCS history, 2x larger AUM than private equity and hedge funds combined.

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