BNY Mellon continues to build out its digital senior management team, announcing three new hires.
Hadley Stern joins as global head of digital custody, responsible for overseeing business and product development for the digital custody offering. He was most recently head of Amazon Web Services’ innovation labs. He will report to Caroline Butler, head of global custody.
David Schwed joins as global head of digital asset technology, responsible for integrating IT strategy for digital asset offerings across the enterprise. Prior to re-joining BNY Mellon, Schwed was chief architect of Galaxy Digital’s information security program. He will report to Jeremy Dobrick, .
Benjamin Duve joins as director, digital assets and blockchain. He joins from Commerzbank, where he was head of digital assets & custody. He is based in Frankfurt and will be part of BNY Mellon’s digital assets unit, reporting to Mike Demissie, head of the digital assets unit and advanced solutions.