_For the last 30 years, Jim has helped financial institutions develop and implement strategic initiatives in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

For 16 years, Jim served as a senior executive at Promontory Financial Group. He managed some of Promontory's most sensitive engagements, including Promontory's work at Danske Bank, through which Danske identified one of the world's largest money laundering operations. He was also Promontory’s executive managing director for the United States, responsible for all aspects of Promontory's business in this region.

Before joining Promontory, Jim focused on transforming trading in the capital markets space, both as the head of strategic planning and product management for the Prebon Group, and as general counsel for Chicago Board Brokerage, which operated the first electronic marketplace for trading and clearing U.S. Treasury securities.

He began his career in the legal department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

For the past two years, Jim has worked with institutions seeking to develop alternatives to traditional payment mechanisms. He currently serves as chairman of Uphold, Ltd.