Mike Ward

Mike Ward is the current head of product management at R3. Mike has held this position since August 2016. Prior to that, they were the VP of bus product engineering at Arrival, an electric vehicle startup. Mike has also been responsible for the product management of Corda, R3's enterprise blockchain product. In their role as head of product management, Mike has defined the product strategy for Corda, including pricing and product marketing. Mike has also built a team of technical product managers and led work on digital assets, central bank digital currency (CBDC) and NFTs with the world's largest banks and central banks.

Mike Ward's educational career includes a degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington, as well as certification from Coursera in Algorithms on Graphs, Data Structures, and Algorithmic Toolbox.

Their manager is Todd McDonald, Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer. Some of their coworkers include Ricardo Correia - Head of Partner Management.