Oliver "Oli" Harris leads Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, the firm's digital asset business. Kinexys enables programmable payments, asset tokenization, and near real-time settlement across global markets, with more than $4 trillion in transactions processed since inception.
Oli has spent more than 15 years building bank-led digital asset and fintech businesses, with global leadership experience across the US, UK, EU, Middle East, and Asia.
Prior to returning to J.P. Morgan, he was Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets, Americas, at Goldman Sachs, where he led the firm's digital asset strategy and private investments, built its crypto trading and lending businesses, and oversaw GS DAP, Goldman's asset tokenization platform.
In his first tenure at J.P. Morgan, as Head of Digital Assets Strategy and Quorum, Oli established and led the team that commercialized Quorum, one of the first enterprise Ethereum blockchain platforms and a foundational technology of what is now Kinexys. He also served as Head of FinTech and Digital Strategy across the Corporate & Investment Bank, and as Head of Strategy for the International Consumer Bank, where he helped shape and launch Chase UK, the firm's fully digital retail bank.
Earlier in his career, Oli served as an Economic Reform and Governance Advisor at the Office of Tony Blair and led the New Energy Architecture Initiative at the World Economic Forum, working with Heads of State on economic, financial, and energy reform.
Oli grew up across Portugal, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the UK, and holds a First Class Honours degree in Geography from the University of Cambridge.
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