The Swiss bank's chief board-level digital thinker is taking on an additional role with a U.S. index provider.
Wiltshire, a Santa Monica, CA-based technology firm, is tapping Blythe Masters (pictured below) as chair of a new advisory group for digital assets, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Masters was on Monday entrusted with Credit Suisse's newest board committee for technology and digitization.
Masters will also take over chairing the Swiss bank's business in the U.S., Credit Suisse said on Monday. She joined Credit Suisse's board seven months ago, at the same time as António Horta-Osório, its chairman, was elected.
Crossing Over To Blockchain
Masters is a rare example of a top investment banker – she was the finance chief of J.P. Morgan Chase's investment bank and later its top commodities banker – who immersed themselves fully and successfully into blockchain and digital assets.
She ran Digital Asset Holdings, a financial technology firm, until 2018. The 52-year-old is an industry partner at Motive Partners, private equity firm specialized in technology for financial services, a board member at A.P. Moller - Maersk and board, and the audit committee chair at Phunware, an enterprise mobile platform.
New Technology Set-Up
This makes her a highly sought-after directors in financial circles. «The world of digital assets continues to develop at pace and is growing in importance, meaning it is absolutely the right time to develop a classification taxonomy to help investors make sense of it all,» Masters said.
In January, Credit Suisse's new technology and operating officer Joanna Hannaford starts in the job, while risk chief David Wildermuth is also due to take up his new role. Both are Goldman Sachs managing directors.
