John Willock has spent his career innovating in capital markets trading and technology including leading teams for over a decade at Nasdaq and TMX focused on data & analytics. He subsequently founded his own firm focused on blending modern approaches to enabling efficient markets, and engaged with global regulators to understand how and where regulations could evolve to bring new asset classes such as digital assets under regulatory certainty and improve legacy processes for traditional asset classes.  As part of his regulatory relationships he was a member of the Ontario Securities Committee Fintech Advisory Committee.

John’s firm, Tritum, created retail and institutional liquidity, trading, and data solutions for digital assets. Tritum’s products processed hundreds of millions of dollars in exchange trading volumes and leading quality financial product access for hundreds of thousands of developing markets.

John joined Blue Ocean to focus on growing the company’s initial overnight market strategy eventually into a leader in a global, 24 hour access to trading US equities.