Arjuna Herath appointed to Advisory Board of Global Digital Asset and Cryptocurrency Association

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Global financial thought leaders join advisory board focused on promoting guidance and stewardship for the booming digital asset industry

Arjuna Herath

Sri Lanka’s Arjuna Herath has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Global Digital Asset and Cryptocurrency Association.

The move was announced by Advisory Board Chair James C. Knox.

Herath is a Board Member of the Colombo Stock Exchange and Former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka and Senior Partner of Ernst and Young, Sri Lanka and Maldives.

Other new members include International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Board Former Vice Chairman, IOSCO Growth and Emerging Markets Committee (GEMC) Former Chairman, and UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) Former CEO Obaid Al-Zaabi; Monica Singer, South Africa Lead for ConsenSys and South Africa’s Central Securities Depository (CSD) Former CEO, Strate Ltd. Arjuna Herath; Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Former Chairman Scott Gordon; Guidehouse Financial Services Segment and Global Legislative and Regulatory Risk Lead Alma Angotti; Partner at Oliver Wyman – Digital and Banking Practices (Americas) Adam Schneider; Founder of AllianceBlock and Founder of ‘The 200 Billion Club’ Amber Ghaddar, which aims to add £ 200 billion to the UK economy by financing women led start-ups; and AllianceDAO Head DAO Architect Dane Lund, which is the global premier Web3 accelerator and community of Web3 founders, investors, and thought leaders.

“We are building a collective of respected and well regarded international financial sector and blockchain industry executives to help steward this global initiative,” stated Global DCA CEO Gabriella Kusz. “We are thrilled these individuals see the importance and inherent value of our mission and the importance of advancing credible and modern self-regulation. We will be announcing additional marquee Advisory Board members in the near future.”

“I am very pleased to welcome such distinguished global financial sector thought leaders and digital asset innovators to the Global DCA Advisory Board.” said James Knox. “I believe this will help advance Global DCA strategy, programming and impact, now and moving forward.” The Global DCA previously announced that Anthony Hegarty, former Chief Financial Management Officer of the World Bank, had joined the Advisory Board.

The Global DCA is a global self-regulatory association for the digital asset and cryptocurrency industry. It was established to guide the evolution of digital assets, cryptocurrencies, and the underlying blockchain technology within a regulatory framework designed to build public trust, foster market integrity, and maximise economic opportunity for all participants. Its broad-based membership includes exchanges, proprietary trading firms, traders, investors, asset managers, brokerage firms, FCMs, custodians, decentralised technology organisations, banks, legal firms, audit firms, insurance professionals, academics, consultants, and media.