Peter Bidewell

Peter Bidewell is VP of Institutional Adoption at Parfin, which develops Rayls. He has worked in institutional blockchain since 2015, holding leadership roles at Applied Blockchain, Accenture and R3 (Corda) before Parfin, and has advised and delivered solutions for central banks, financial market infrastructures, commercial banks, asset managers and payments providers around the world.

His work spans strategy, business and commercial leadership, ecosystem partnerships, DLT solution design, go-to-market, product leadership and delivery, and tokenomic modelling. Peter has led the 0-to-1 strategy, design, delivery and commercialisation of several blockchain product portfolios: procurement, identity and ESG products used by 55,000 businesses across 33 countries; stablecoin, CBDC, digital asset and interoperability products used by major central and commercial banks and generating millions of dollars in annual revenue; and institutional-grade infrastructure including a sovereign institutional ledger, private permissioned chains, a public EVM layer 1 and an onchain transaction privacy protocol.

He has co-founded crypto companies including MetaMe, BABB and The Internet Foundation, and holds two approved patents in blockchain technology. A recognised thought leader, Peter speaks at major industry events worldwide, including the World Economic Forum in Davos and Consensus Hong Kong, on asset tokenisation, stablecoins and tokenised deposits, connecting traditional financial systems with onchain systems, and onchain privacy and governance.