Siddharth Singhal
Head of Business Development at trilitech
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Business Development
2023 - Current
Driving and coordinating adoption across the Tezos stack: Tezos L1, Etherlink (non-custodial optimistic EVM rollup) and Tezos smart-rollups across use-cases and industries
Mentor
2025
Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator is a blockchain startup accelerator run by UC Berkeley.
Head of Business Development
2023
Driving and coordinating adoption across the Tezos stack: Tezos L1, Etherlink (non-custodial optimistic EVM rollup) and Tezos smart-rollups across use-cases and industries
Expert Advisor
2021
Director, Enterprise Adoption
2021 - 2023
Infrastructure for the decentralised web From the Substrate blockchain framework to Polkadot, the sharded protocol enabling blockchains to operate seamlessly together at scale, Parity builds the foundation of Web3 Responsible for driving adoption of Substrate, Polkadot, Kusama across enterprises. Select focus verticals include: web3 infrastructure, Financial Services, Social Networks, Energy, Gaming, Sports, Humanitarian etc Select notable partnerships: Mythical Games, Energy Web Foundation, project Liberty / DSNP / Frequency network, United Nations, FCB (Football Club Barcelona), Transparent Systems, Aventus networks, Neo foundation / Watr protocol, peaq network among others Expert Member / Collaborator / Advisor: Multiple networks, enterprises, consortia and initiatives building on Polkadot/Substrate stack. Also, Blockchain for Europe, UN-ITU AWG, Digital Euro association, Stanford FDCI ( Future of Digital Currency Initiative ), Digital Dollar Project among others
Advisor
2021 - 2023
Advisor
2021 - 2023
Director, Enterprise Adoption
2021 - 2023
Infrastructure for the decentralised web From the Substrate blockchain framework to Polkadot, the sharded protocol enabling blockchains to operate seamlessly together at scale, Parity builds the foundation of Web3 Responsible for driving adoption of Substrate, Polkadot, Kusama across enterprises. Select focus verticals include: web3 infrastructure, Financial Services, Social Networks, Energy, Gaming, Sports, Humanitarian etc Select notable partnerships: Mythical Games, Energy Web Foundation, project Liberty / DSNP / Frequency network, United Nations, FCB (Football Club Barcelona), Transparent Systems, Aventus networks, Neo foundation / Watr protocol, peaq network among others Expert Member / Collaborator / Advisor: Multiple networks, enterprises, consortia and initiatives building on Polkadot/Substrate stack. Also, Blockchain for Europe, UN-ITU AWG, Digital Euro association, Stanford FDCI ( Future of Digital Currency Initiative ), Digital Dollar Project among others
Global Head of Product Partnerships
2019 - 2021
Funding shouldn't be a barrier to education. Prodigy Finance is revolutionising the way borrowers and investors see student loans through our borderless credit model. Over the past decade we’ve helped thousands of international students gain access to postgraduate education through our loans. Lender to international students from 135 different countries over $1bn cumulatively. VC backers: Index, Balderton and others; debt backers: Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and others. Responsible for: Digital Assets (debt tokenization), Cross border payments, Disbursements, Credit-ratings, Digital Identity, FinCrime, new-products
Business Development & Strategic Relations, APAC
2018 - 2019
R3 is an enterprise distributed ledger (blockchain) firm working with a network of over 300 banks, financial institutions, regulators, trade associations, professional services firms and technology companies. Our Corda platform is already being used in industries from financial services to healthcare, shipping, insurance and more. It records, manages, executes institutions’ financial agreements in perfect synchrony with their peers, creating a world of frictionless commerce. Overseeing RFPs, consortium memberships, key-accounts, investor-relations and network expansion efforts across the region working with financial institutions, central banks, exchanges, and funds across Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Japan & Thailand. Topics: Consortiums, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), Identity, Trade Finance, Capital Markets, Insurance, Healthcare R3 is building the future of finance and a new world of commerce with its distributed ledger platform, Corda. Corda is a distributed ledger platform, aka blockchain, that is the outcome of over two years of intense research and development by R3 and 80 of the world’s largest financial institutions. A financial grade ledger, Corda meets the highest standards of the banking industry, yet it is applicable to any commercial scenario. With Corda, participants can transact without the need for central authorities creating a world of frictionless commerce.
Services & Business Development, APAC
2017 - 2018
R3’s Corda platform delivers on the promise of blockchain for every business in every industry. Overseeing projects, RFPs and network expansion efforts across the region working with financial institutions, central banks, exchanges, and funds across Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Japan & Thailand. Topics: Consortiums, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), Identity, Trade Finance, Capital Markets, Insurance, Healthcare
R3 is a financial innovation firm focusing on designing and implementing distributed ledger technology for modernizing financial services.
Raised $112,000,000.00 from CLS.