Tim Grant

Head of Europe Galaxy Digital

Tim is Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for Galaxy Digital, a diversified financial services and investment management company in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors. In this role, he oversees the expansion of the firm’s existing presence in EMEA across all business lines, including: Trading Sales & Research, Asset Management, Principal Investments, Venture Capital, Investment Banking, and Mining. Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, Tim was the Chief Executive Officer of SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the Swiss regulated digital asset exchange of SIX Group, where helped drive SDX’s efforts to launch the first fully regulated institutional digital asset exchange and CSD. Overseeing a team of 100 professionals, Tim helped SDX create partnerships with leading financial institutions around the world to bring the next generation of equity, debt, derivative and fund based digital assets into global capital markets. Tim has also served as Chief Executive Officer of the R3 Lab and Research Center, which is focused on bringing global financial institutions, established and startup technology companies, regulators and central banks together to research, develop, and produce new distributed ledger technologies and methodologies. In this role, Tim managed sales and investor and client relationships for all R3 products and services. Before that, Tim was a Managing Director at UBS O’Connor, a $6.5bn multi-strategy hedge fund, where he was Head of Quantitative Research and Head of Technology.