Jon Downing, Former Vice President at Visa Europe and American Express Joins Btl Group’S Advisory Board
JON DOWNING, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AT VISA EUROPE
AND AMERICAN EXPRESS JOINS BTL GROUP’S ADVISORY
BOARD
For Immediate Release
Vancouver, Canada / London, UK March 13, 2017
BTL GROUP LTD. (TSX Venture: BTL) (“BTL”) is pleased to announce the addition of Jon
Downing to BTL’s advisory board. Over the last 25 years, Jon has successfully delivered
innovation, business and technology services at some of the largest and most respected global
companies, including Visa, J P Morgan, HP Enterprise Services & American Express.
Over the last two years, Jon was a key member of Visa Europe’s Innovation Hub, Visa Collab,
which was responsible for identifying and testing the most exciting, revolutionary ideas in
payments and developing them into commercial realities. Jon setup and led the blockchain
practice at Visa Collab and was responsible for leading multiple high-profile proof of concept
initiatives with key start-up companies including BTL, testing ideas for new products and services
across the whole payments eco-system, with specific focus and thought leadership in the
blockchain and crypto-currency domain.
“I am joining BTL because I passionately believe in the transformational potential of blockchain
and Distributed Ledger Technologies,” commented Jon Downing. “BTL have correctly identified
and solved for the privacy and scalability challenges through the innovative design and
architecture of their Interbit solution - which I directly experienced during the Interbank Settlement
pilot, along with BTL’s focus on excellence, meeting and exceeding client expectations, along with
building a compelling vision for the future. I look forward to working with BTL’s leadership team
and board of directors to help realise the company vision of bringing the world’s critical systems
into consensus.”
“BTL has had a strong start to the year with the launch of our European energy pilot and continuing
work in the interbank-settlement space,” said Guy Halford-Thompson, BTL’s Chief Executive
Officer. “We believe Jon’s experience in the finance space will help us accelerate
commercialization of our Interbit platform. Jon’s domain expertise, as well as his experience
growing and managing large teams, are critical skills which BTL will greatly benefit from as we
continue to expand this year.”
ABOUT BTL GROUP LTD.
Operating from both Canada and the UK, BTL offers blockchain solutions to businesses across
multiple industries, in particular the finance, energy and gaming sectors. BTL has built prototypes
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that showcase the capabilities of its Interbit platform, a proprietary blockchain based interbank
payment network and settlement and asset trading solution.
Interbit is an open, multi-chain, asset settlement platform with a suite of APIs and smart contracts
that allow businesses from across the world to provide global access to fast, secure, and auditable
financial and asset trading services.
With offices in Vancouver and Canary Wharf in London, BTL is positioning itself as a front-runner
in the blockchain ecosystem, providing advice and knowledge to industry leaders.
Website: www.btl.co
Twitter: https://twitter.com/blockchainltd
For further information please contact:
Angus Campbell, Inquiries
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7100 0850
Email: [email protected]
Guy Halford-Thompson, CEO
Phone: +1 855 256 5246
Email: [email protected]
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