Fnality International has appointed Olga Zoutendijk as Chair of the Board of Directors.
Olga will be responsible for overseeing Fnality International’s ongoing development and the launch of its global, regulated network of distributed financial market infrastructures (dFMIs), the first of which is scheduled for later in 2022.
Olga Zoutendijk is an experienced global banker, having held key roles in wholesale, investment and retail banking in Asia, Australia, Europe and the US for more than 25 years.
In May 2016, she was appointed Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of ABN AMRO Group.
Olga Zoutendijk was notably the first woman to head a Supervisory Board of a stock exchange listed firm in the history of the Netherlands.
She had joined the Board of Governors of Leiden University, which is considered to be one of the leading research universities in Europe, in June 2016.
In April 2019, Olga was appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of Julius Baer Group.
Olga has an established track record of supporting profitable business growth and innovation, building high-performance professional teams and managing sustainability and diversity initiatives.
As a member of the Advisory Board of Money 20/20 RiseUp, Olga supports younger women in Fintech and financial services, in order to assist them with achieving their potential and to address the diversity imbalance in senior management in those industry segments.
Olga will now continue to lead diversity and inclusion initiatives at Fnality.
She’s a sought-after keynote speaker at global Fintech and corporate governance conferences, including Money 20/20, LendIt Fintech, Global Wealthtech Summit and the Professional Boards Forum.
Established in 2019 by a group of financial institutions, Fnality International is developing a regulated payment system in order to support the fast-growing industry adoption of tokenized assets and marketplaces.
By leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT), Fnality will provide its participants and reserve banks with a more resilient system for handling payments.
Fnality CEO, Rhomaios Ram, stated:
“It is an honor to have someone as accomplished as Olga join Fnality as Chairwoman. Her inclusive leadership style, skills and vast global experience across key senior leadership positions in the financial industry are highly valuable to the company. Olga shares our vision for exploring the full potential of decentralised finance within traditional banking, and we very much look forward to working closely with her over the coming years.”
Olga Zoutendijk remarked:
“I am very pleased to become part of Fnality’s exciting and groundbreaking journey. The company is well positioned to act as an effective bridge between traditional and decentralised finance. Its founding shareholders have demonstrated foresight and commitment to build a regulated wholesale banking solution that is set to transform how payments are processed and settled globally. I look forward to working with Rhom and the management team, my Board colleagues and the other key stakeholders.”
