TY - JOUR T1 - Interview: Blockchain and Digital Transformation in Financial Services. Part I: Transformation and Adoption of DLTs, Technology and Innovation, Markets and Money Management JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2022 A1 - Maryanne Morrow A1 - Matthew Midson A1 - Gregory Sandstrom KW - blockchain KW - digital transformation KW - distributed ledger technology KW - FinTech KW - Real Time Settlement AB - This interview on “Blockchain and Digital Transformation in Financial Services” between 9th Gear Technologies, Inc., CPQi and the TIM Review took place on April 22nd and 29th, 2022. The interviewees were Maryanne Morrow, CEO, Founder, and Chairman of 9th Gear, and Matthew Midson, CEO, North America, CPQi. The interview was conducted by Gregory Sandstrom, Managing Editor, TIM Review. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 12 UR - timreview.ca/article/1482 IS - 1/2 U1 - 9th Gear Technologies Maryanne brings more than 25 years as a corporate veteran in the financial, marketing and advertising industries to her role as founder and CEO of 9th Gear Technologies where she is responsible for leading corporate strategy, scaling the company and investor relations. She is a capital markets specialist, launching a family of mutual funds and architecting fee-based asset management platforms for banks, broker dealers and insurance firms. Maryanne previously served as CEO of SurgeXLR, a boutique accelerator she founded that focused on faster paths to monetization. She was also involved in two successful exits (to Standard & Poor’s and BNP Paribas), and consulted on the custom content and advertising efforts of many financial firms while working at The Wall Street Journal. Maryanne is an active angel investor and an expert on distributed ledger technology, ICOs and cryptocurrency. Maryanne was educated at Cornell University (Material Science Engineering), LeMoyne (Finance) and Whittier Law School with continuous learning at Stanford University (Scaling Blockchain, Valuation Modeling, Angel Investing and part of the Blockchain Club). U2 - CPQi Matt leads CPQi North American practice and is responsible for all aspects of the IT consulting business. Matt has over 29 years of combined industry and consulting experience in the Financial Services Industry. Prior to his more recent management consulting roles, Matt held long tenures in several large Global Banks (HSBC, Société Générale, Deutsche Bank, RBS), managing all aspects of Technology and Business focused heavily on Global Capital Markets and Global Banking sectors. Matt has a proven record in delivering business and technology strategies to support growth of business revenue plans, operational effectiveness initiatives, while balancing the demands of today’s highly regulated environment. Matt’s extensive financial services career originated from hands-on execution roles, through middle/upper management to an experienced CIO. His senior leadership roles have involved leading large diverse direct and non-direct teams in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. U3 - Technology Innovation Management Review Gregory Sandstrom is Managing Editor of the TIM Review. He is a former Associate Professor of Mass Media and Communications at the European Humanities University (2012-2017), and Affiliated Associate Professor at the Social Innovations Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University (2016-2017) in Vilnius, Lithuania. His PhD is from St. Petersburg State University and the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He interned at the S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, St. Petersburg, sector on Sociology of Science (2010). He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Science Council (2013-2015), for which he conducted research visits to the Copernican Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (Krakow), the University of Edinburgh's Extended Knowledge Project, Cambridge University's History and Philosophy of Science Department, and Virginia State University's Science and Technology Studies program. He worked for the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, leading student and faculty language and communications workshops, most recently (2013, 2014, 2017) in Yangon, Myanmar. His current research interests are distributed ledger technology (blockchain) systems and digital extension services. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Interview: Blockchain and Digital Transformation in Financial Services. Part II: Governance and Legal Issues, Future Opportunities, Development Needs and Research Pathways JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2022 A1 - Maryanne Morrow A1 - Matthew Midson A1 - Gregory Sandstrom KW - blockchain KW - digital transformation KW - distributed ledger technology KW - FinTech KW - Real Time Settlement AB - This interview on “Blockchain and Digital Transformation in Financial Services” between 9th Gear Technologies, Inc., CPQi and the TIM Review took place on April 22nd and 29th, 2022. The interviewees were Maryanne Morrow, CEO, Founder, and Chairman of 9th Gear, and Matthew Midson, CEO, North America, CPQi. The interview was conducted by Gregory Sandstrom, Managing Editor, TIM Review. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 12 UR - timreview.ca/article/1483 IS - 1/2 U1 - 9th Gear Technologies Maryanne brings more than 25 years as a corporate veteran in the financial, marketing and advertising industries to her role as founder and CEO of 9th Gear Technologies where she is responsible for leading corporate strategy, scaling the company and investor relations. She is a capital markets specialist, launching a family of mutual funds and architecting fee-based asset management platforms for banks, broker dealers and insurance firms. Maryanne previously served as CEO of SurgeXLR, a boutique accelerator she founded that focused on faster paths to monetization. She was also involved in two successful exits (to Standard & Poor’s and BNP Paribas), and consulted on the custom content and advertising efforts of many financial firms while working at The Wall Street Journal. Maryanne is an active angel investor and an expert on distributed ledger technology, ICOs and cryptocurrency. Maryanne was educated at Cornell University (Material Science Engineering), LeMoyne (Finance) and Whittier Law School with continuous learning at Stanford University (Scaling Blockchain, Valuation Modeling, Angel Investing and part of the Blockchain Club). U2 - CPQi Matt leads CPQi North American practice and is responsible for all aspects of the IT consulting business. Matt has over 29 years of combined industry and consulting experience in the Financial Services Industry. Prior to his more recent management consulting roles, Matt held long tenures in several large Global Banks (HSBC, Société Générale, Deutsche Bank, RBS), managing all aspects of Technology and Business focused heavily on Global Capital Markets and Global Banking sectors. Matt has a proven record in delivering business and technology strategies to support growth of business revenue plans, operational effectiveness initiatives, while balancing the demands of today’s highly regulated environment. Matt’s extensive financial services career originated from hands-on execution roles, through middle/upper management to an experienced CIO. His senior leadership roles have involved leading large diverse direct and non-direct teams in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. U3 - Technology Information Management Review Gregory Sandstrom is Managing Editor of the TIM Review. He is a former Associate Professor of Mass Media and Communications at the European Humanities University (2012-2017), and Affiliated Associate Professor at the Social Innovations Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University (2016-2017) in Vilnius, Lithuania. His PhD is from St. Petersburg State University and the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He interned at the S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, St. Petersburg, sector on Sociology of Science (2010). He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Science Council (2013-2015), for which he conducted research visits to the Copernican Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (Krakow), the University of Edinburgh's Extended Knowledge Project, Cambridge University's History and Philosophy of Science Department, and Virginia State University's Science and Technology Studies program. He worked for the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking, leading student and faculty language and communications workshops, most recently (2013, 2014, 2017) in Yangon, Myanmar. His current research interests are distributed ledger technology (blockchain) systems and digital extension services. ER -