ZACK KAVANAUGH Chiefof Staff to the CEO

Zack Kavanaugh is Director and Chief of Staff to R3 CEO, David Rutter. Prior to joining R3 at the start of 2017, Zack spent eight years at State Street in Boston, San Francisco and London with time in both the asset servicing and markets businesses. Zack held several management positions including leading global operating model transformation programs, technology implementations, regulatory initiatives, and project & strategy teams. Zack is a graduate of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. As Chief of Staff, Zack works side by side with David to deliver on R3’s strategic objectives and manage the day to day business.

TODD MCDONALD Co-Founder,Head of Partnerships

Todd McDonald is Co-Founder and Head of Ecosystem Development for R3. Todd co-founded R3 in 2013 and was one of the first to uncover the promise of distributed ledger technology for financial services. In his current role, Todd focuses on building the partner application ecosystem for R3’s Corda platform. Prior to R3, Todd spent fourteen years at Standard Chartered Bank as a Managing Director in their Financial Markets group where he held positions such as Global Head of Electronic FX Trading and Head of FX for the Americas. Todd holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Colgate University.

RICHARD GENDAL BROWN CTO

Richard is the CTO at R3 and is one of the world’s leading authorities on distributed ledger systems and architectures. Previously, Richard was the Executive Architect for Banking and Financial Markets industry innovation at IBM UK. His previous roles with the company, for whom he worked for almost fifteen years, included Lead Account Architect for a global Investment Banking client and a consultant for IBM software products. Richard is a Chartered Engineer, holds an MBA with distinction from Warwick Business School and a first-class degree in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge.