Simon recently left Barclays after having built their Blockchain practice and R+D capability.  In that time Barclays became the first UK bank to offer accounts to Blockchain companies, completed over 20 blockchain experiments and became a founder member of R3.  After 16 years in Finance and Telco - working behind the scenes at the Barclays Accelerator and delivering Mobile Apps in market Simon now leads 11:FS Blockchain advisory and VC Fund (in partnership with Life.Sreda).