Chris Justice

BIO

Chris has started and led businesses as a founder and senior executive in Asia-Pacific, Europe and MENA. As an inquisitive follower of emerging technologies, Chris understands early on how they will impact and change the ways business is conducted. He has been a leader in digital transformation since the early 90's and led several of Asia's earliest Internet businesses. Chris’ belief in distributed ledger stems from the realisation that it is a better way to secure and share data than the current paradigm of insecure centralised databases. He believes that decentralised computing will drive the next wave of productivity improvements and efficiencies, connecting IoT devices and driving cost reduction by replacing duplicative, error-prone ledgers maintained by each participant in a value chain, with single, trusted, distributed ledgers. Chris is also an independent director at London-based FinTech credit analytics company, Oktober6, the parent company of the SME credit analytics for lenders, CreditEnable. As Head of Europe & COO for Janus Capital International, Christopher was responsible for the strategic direction for Janus’ institutional and wholesale business with oversight of distribution and operations across Europe, Middle East and Africa. At Janus Henderson, he was active in the firm’s initiatives to identify financial technologies that drive innovation, lower costs and create efficiencies in asset management. Following an early career in corporate finance and venture capital where Christopher made direct investments across Asia for Hong Kong-based Morningside, a single family office, he led a number of start-ups and turnarounds in Hong Kong, China, and Southeast Asia in financial services, media, and education, for which, as CEO or Co-founder, he raised over US$125 million in venture capital and led a NASDAQ IPO.