Keith Bear
Senior Advisor for Digital Assets
Keith is a Fellow at the Centre for Alternative Finance, focused on research and industry collaboration in Digital Assets, AI and Fintech innovation. He chairs the Cambridge Digital Asset Research programme and teaches on CCAF’s Digital Assets for Regulators and Enterprises course.
Previously, Keith was responsible globally for the strategy, development and execution of IBM’s business in Financial Markets, working extensively with global clients.
Keith serves on the Advisory Board of five Fintechs, as an Independent Board Member at DFNS (a Web3 wallet as a Service provider), on the Advisory Board of the Digital Markets and Digital Money APPG, on the Advisory Board of Global Digital Finance, as a lead mentor at the Techstars/ABN accelerator, and has served on the Board Risk Committee at the London Metal Exchange.
He is also a member of WEF’s Expert Council, ESMA’s Investor Trends Consultative Working Group and served on the Bank of England’s CBDC Technology Forum, and advises the Mission OG VC Fund.
Keith holds a First Class Degree in Physics from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, an MSc (Distinction) in Particle Physics from University of London, and completed an IBM Master in Business Management programme at London School of Economics.
 
                        