New York, Sept. 18, 2018 — AlphaPoint, a leading blockchain technology company focused on enabling institutions to issue digital assets and to operate digital asset exchanges globally, today announced that Dan Draper, a managing director at Invesco and Global Head of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), has been elected to its Board of Directors.
Draper is the Global Head of Invesco’s ETF business as well as the President of Invesco Capital Management LLC. Since 2013, he has driven the growth of Invesco’s ETF business to be the world’s fourth largest ETF issuer with over $220B in assets under management. Previously, Draper spent nearly two decades in Europe and Asia with leading asset management, investment banking, and wealth management firms including Credit Suisse, Barclays, UBS, Goldman Sachs, and Salomon Brothers. He is a Finance Leaders Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leaders Network.
Draper comments: “The development of financial products tied to digital assets and cryptocurrencies is already underway. AlphaPoint is a technology and data leader that can power the next generation of financial products for institutional and retail investors. I look forward to joining AlphaPoint’s board and bringing my decades of experience in ETFs, financial products, and global business development to help expand its business.”
“Dan has been behind the growth and success of many well-known financial products, including Invesco QQQ, which tracks the Nasdaq 100 Index. AlphaPoint is uniquely positioned to leverage both our data and technology to offer firms the ability to create new investment products, and we are excited for Dan to join our board and help guide our rapid growth,” said Salil Donde, AlphaPoint CEO.
AlphaPoint recently announced its plans to launch AlphaPoint IndexesTM and AlphaPoint Smart BasketsTM, which will enable exchange operators to create additional investment products backed by groups of digital assets. To learn more about the AlphaPoint Indexes and AlphaPoint Smart Basket technology, and its other data and technology updates, please visit AlphaPoint.com and sign up for updates.
About AlphaPoint
AlphaPoint is a global financial technology company helping institutions make illiquid assets liquid. Through its secure, scalable, and customizable distributed ledger platform, AlphaPoint enables customers to digitize assets as well as launch and operate markets with its white label exchange and asset digitization technology. AlphaPoint and its award winning blockchain technology has helped institutions discover and execute their blockchain strategies since 2013. For more information, please visit https://alphapoint.com and follow @AlphaPointLive.
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