Jon Rout (2019 Annual)

Business Development Director for APAC
Digital Asset

Digital Asset delivers DAML and the Digital Asset Platform to securely synchronise and automate the complex, permissioned, multi-party workflows at the heart of financial market operations; modern enterprise supply chains; and healthcare applications.

As Business Development Director for Asia Pacific, Jon has worked together with financial market operators across Asia Pacific including HKEX and ASX as well as major financial institutions to identify and realise the potential of smart contracts and Distributed Ledger Technology to deliver real business value.

Before Digital Asset, Jon led the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Blockchain Innovation team prototyping high value use cases and business models for the implementation of distributed ledger technology across retail and institutional financial services.