Elliptic names four for its board of advisors

Elliptic, the London-based blockchain intelligence company, has named four members joining its board of advisors:

David Harris brings expertise in building and leading large financial institutions, having served as chief executive officer (CEO) of the Chicago Board Options Exchange Stock Exchange, as well as chairman and CEO of the National Stock Exchange.

Martine Niejadlik is an established expert in anti-money laundering (AML) and blockchain regulation, having served as chief compliance officer (CCO) at Coinbase. Prior to this, she ran risk management teams at PayPal, eBay and Amazon, and was a lead developer of the FICO score.

Richard G. Brown has been an advisor to Elliptic since 2013 and is current head of technology at R3 CEV, a consortium of global banks to design and deliver advanced distributed/shared ledger technologies to global financial markets. Prior to R3CEV, he was the executive architect for industry innovation and business development for IBM’s banking and financial markets business in the UK.

Nadav Rosenberg has served as managing director of Europe operations at Taboola.com, and as a senior executive and regional director for Groupon UK & IR, providing experience in corporate and business development strategy; especially in fast-growing technology companies.

The board of advisors represents expertise in four key areas: leading large financial institutions; AML and regulation; blockchain applications and growth strategy. Elliptic works with law enforcement agencies and financial institutions to identify illicit activity on the Bitcoin blockchain; it is backed by Octopus Ventures and is the founding member of the UK Digital Currency Association.