About Simon Chantry

Simon Chantry is a noted technologist and web3 expert.

Simon began his professional career as a Nuclear Systems Commissioning Engineer on Bruce Power’s Restart project, successfully bringing a number of systems online in Units 1&2.

After discovering Bitcoin in 2012, Simon co-founded Bitt.com and has held multiple roles with the firm including Director, COO, and CIO bringing the company’s Digital Currency Management System (DCMS) to market in 4Q 2017. The DCMS is now deployed across 3 continents with 5 unique digital national currencies, in CBDC and stablecoin formats. Simon is a global expert in the development of digital currency systems across borders.

Simon is a member of the OECD’s Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board (BEPAB), and has been a featured blockchain and DLT expert, speaker, and panelist at numerous government, regulatory, and technology centred forums around the world.

Simon is currently working to establish Central Bank Digital Currency standards and best practices to enable crucial privacy and accountability features, as well as interoperability and effective CBDC project collaboration and participation amongst international Central Banks. 

Simon is an advisor and partner in a number of blockchain-based fintech projects.