Simon Chantry

Simon Chantry is Co-Founder and Chief Information Officer at Bitt.

Simon began his professional career as a Nuclear Systems Commissioning Engineer, and after discovering Bitcoin in 2012, he co-founded Bitt. Simon has held multiple roles with the firm including Director, COO, and CBDO, and he brought the company’s Digital Currency Management System to market in Q4 2017.

Simon is a Board Member of the OECD’s Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board (BEPAB), a member of the World Economic Forum’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium, and has been a featured blockchain and DLT expert at numerous government, regulatory, and technology centered forums.

Simon is currently working to establish central bank digital currency (CBDC) standards and best practices to enable interoperability and effective CBDC project collaboration amongst international central banks. He also follows the evolution of decentralized finance, and digital currencies of various types.