Bryan Bishop creates and builds software that is changing the face of modern finance, enabling startups to raise tens of millions of dollars in venture capital and pursue their revenue opportunities at full throttle. Bishop co-founded Custodia Bank (prev. Avanti Bank & Trust) and served as CTO for 2 years to transform the banking industry with crypto in the form of a regulated bank. With a background in software engineering, Bishop previously worked at LedgerX (now FTX US Derivatives) from 2014-2018 before returning to a life of consulting in fintech and biotech. In his non-commercial work, he has volunteered as a contributor to the Bitcoin Core project. He is also a public speaker and published scholar (Nucleic Acids Research, J. Comp. Inf. Sci. Eng.) and self-proclaimed “Do-It-Yourself biohacker”.