Kaimeta provides strategic advisory and full-time or fractional leadership through its global team of advisors, subject matter experts, and partners. Our advisors are focused on helping organizations develop and execute strategies to fund, launch, expand, and operate new programs by integrating innovative technologies and compliant business systems, including distributed ledger, data, payments, digital identity, and other emerging applications.
The Kaimeta team brings insights, industry expertise, and a global network of trusted partners to fill critical resource gaps in your team’s needs and cost-effectively accelerate your program. The delivery and commercial model are designed to establish a win-win relationship well-suited for the project’s current stage of development and a commitment to successful growth.
Jeremy Drzal is the Founder & CEO of Kaimeta. Jeremy brings an innovative approach to identifying and executing growth strategies for advanced technologies, enabling secure and trusted commerce solutions. His expertise is designing and enabling robust ecosystems and marketplaces bridging legacy payments and account services with Web3 and tokenized services. His experience spans many applications related to FinTech, RegTech, VASP, Banking, Retail, Issuing, and Acquiring, across a global network of clients and partners.
Patrick Campos is the President of Kaimeta. Patrick has worked with companies across multiple industries, assisting them with strategic matters spanning business and operations, product development and commercialization, capital and finance, corporate development and partnerships, organizational matters, and marketing and communications. His experience also spans regulatory, compliance, technology, and legal matters. He most recently served as Chief Strategy Officer of Securrency, a leading institutional-grade blockchain-based financial and regulatory technology developer. Patrick also has long experience as a lawyer with major international law firms, with a particular focus on structuring large financial transactions. Along with several executive leadership roles, Patrick served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and is actively engaged in international American football as head coach for the Emirates Gridiron League.
Kate Bohn is a Kaimeta Strategic Advisor with over 24 years of experience in Financial Services at multiple Tier 1 institutions and a software house, Kate excels as a Capital Markets and Asset Management CIO/CDO, driving innovation and transformation. Specialising in 'Problems To Be Solved' and Fintech, she empowers organisations to harness artificial intelligence, data, partnerships, and culture for heightened value and scalability.
As Head of Private Markets Technology at Macquarie Group, she led technology delivery and strategy for key businesses, overseeing integration projects exceeding AUD30 million. Additionally, as EMEA CIO for Macquarie Asset Management, Kate championed cloud-native solutions and a migration to agile methodologies.
Previously, as Innovation & Strategy Lead at Lloyds Banking Group, Kate shaped the digital and data/analytics vision for commercial banking, supported strategic initiatives exceeding GBP3 billion, and revitalised brand presence across the EMEA FinTech community.
Her leadership fosters trust and collaboration, leading to prestigious awards including the 'BUPA everywoman Women in Tech - Leader' and 'European Women in Finance - Excellence in Fintech'.
Jackson Mueller is a Kaimeta Strategic Advisor for Regulatory and Government Affairs. Jackson provides targeted advice and strategic direction to organizations in response to global policy and regulatory developments pertaining to digital assets and financial market infrastructure. For the past 15 years, Jackson has helped policymakers, c-suite executives, and the broader public better understand and navigate the complex and ever-evolving intersection of financial services, policy, and technological innovation.
Before joining Kaimeta, Jackson spent four years at Securrency, a leading developer of institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure. He led the organization’s policy and government affairs efforts by turning a small-scale startup into a recognized and respected institution among policymakers and regulators globally. Before Securrency, Jackson helped jumpstart and eventually lead the Financial Technology (FinTech) Program at the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank focused on building meaningful lives. In his six years with the Institute, Jackson expanded and promoted the FinTech Program to both domestic and international audiences through the publication of written content, participation in public and private events, and from direct engagement with industry executives, policymakers, regulators, and media sources. Prior to the Milken Institute, Jackson was an assistant vice president at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), where he focused on a broad range of financial services-related policies, provided legislative and regulatory updates to executive-level government relations staff, and conducted analysis of key issues relevant to SIFMA's members.
Jackson received his bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Richmond and a master's degree in public policy from American University. He currently resides just outside of Washington, DC where you will either find him listening nonstop to the Grateful Dead or taking his three children (kicking and screaming) to Civil War battlefield sites.
Rick Tapia is a distinguished attorney, international keynote speaker, and thought leader in the blockchain and digital asset arena. As an advisor at Kaimeta, he brings extensive expertise to support innovative companies and guide strategic decisions. With a career marked by foresight and innovation, Rick has guided startups through complex regulatory frameworks, helping companies raise over $50 million USD collectively. His expertise spans corporate entity formation, DAOs, intellectual property, NFTs, and securities laws.
As a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force for Digital Assets, Rick provides crucial consultation and legislative feedback, advocating for regulatory measures that foster innovation while ensuring market integrity. His insights shape the legal contours of the evolving blockchain space.
Rick’s advisory approach is comprehensive and business-centric. He offers counsel on entity structuring, governance, director relations, commercial and tech transactions, and equity compensation. He is particularly adept at navigating investment financings and securities and crafting regulatory compliance strategies for digital assets.
Rick also elucidates the complex legal frameworks for emerging fund managers, covering crowdfunding, private securities offerings, investment funds, investment companies, and broker-dealers. His hands-on guidance helps clients instill robust legal processes and compliance best practices.
Dedicated to nurturing technological innovation and entrepreneurship, Rick shares his knowledge through CLE programs and high-profile conferences on digital assets. His voice shape’s opinion, clarifies doubt, and inspires entrepreneurs to responsibly harness the transformative power of blockchain technology, both in the U.S. and internationally.
Relevant Expertise
Enver is a Kaimeta Strategic Advisor with over 20 years of finance experience as an Auditor, Strategy, and M&A consultant. His broad industry experience includes finance, industrial manufacturing, food processing, healthcare, consumer goods and energy.
His past experience at Arthur Andersen, Ernst& Young, and Granth Thornton gave him the opportunity to work in Turkey and the CIS countries.
He has worked with several boutique M&A firms in Turkey. After that, he managed an Austrian energy company, Turkey Fund’s project development for eight years. Then, he joined BWG as a General Manager of Turkey and worked in that position for over five years. He was also co-founder of Iron Mountain Record Management Turkey. From 2021 to 2023, he was the CEO of Istanli E-commerce company. He is a shareholder of Arc Group UK, Arc Build construction company in Rwanda, and an international Gold trading company in Tanzania.
Enver was a team leader in most projects and built his expertise in M&A and consulting assignments, project management, restructurings, developing market entrance strategies, JV contract negotiations, and set-up.
A world traveler, Fenerbahce Football Club congress member, and served as an officer in the Republic of Turkey Army, attaining the rank of sergeant. Enver holds a Bachelor of Science from the Department of Economics at the University of Marmara, İstanbul, Turkey, and is a Chartered Public Accountant (CPA).
Charles Russell is a Kaimeta Strategic Advisor focused on capital markets, go-to-market strategy, token design, launch, and token management. Charles’ experience spans investment banking, private equity, private credit, venture capital, and merchant banking, and he has extensive experience providing strategic services to early-stage projects and investors building and investing in Web3.
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