Tim Grant has joined SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) as its new Head of Business.

Tim joins from DrumG Technologies, where he was Founder and CEO. During his career he has also been Chairman of ApexE3, a Strategid Advisor at Talos Trading, and CEO of R3 Lab and Research Centre. He has been recruited to drive the organisation’s next phase of strategic growth, as SDX continues to develop its integrated issuance, trading, settlement, and custody infrastructure for digital assets to serve financial institutions across global capital markets.

Thomas Zeeb, Head Securities & Exchanges at SIX Group, and Chairman of SDX, said: “Tim has a comprehensive background in both the new and old worlds of capital markets innovation. This background is an essential prerequisite to successfully lead the development of SDX and to fulfil SIX’s growth ambition to build the financial ecosystem of the future.”

Tim Grant said: “I am very excited to join the leadership team at SDX as they aim to launch the world’s first end-to-end digital exchange. The team has already made huge progress and I’m looking forward to contributing my experience and working with our institutional clients around the work to continue the growth and expansion of the next generation of financial market infrastructure.”

SDX aims to build the world’s first fully-regulated end-to-end DLT based digital asset exchange.