I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.

The thing about innovation in financial markets is they're always building on what has come before. It's a natural process.

If you think about any multiparty process where shared information is necessary to the completion of transactions, and the coordination of activity and the exchange of value, that's where blockchain technology can be put to good use.

And that has significant implications for the unfolding of all this.

I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.

It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.