Kadena Announces Chris Ngoi as Advisor

Current Chief Strategy and Business Officer at Libeara and former Director of Blockchain & Crypto at KPMG joins Kadena as advisor

Kadena, the industry’s only scalable Proof of Work blockchain, is proud to announce that Chris Ngoi has joined as a strategic advisor. As a highly experienced leader across capital markets and enterprise blockchain within the Asia region, Chris brings invaluable insight to Kadena’s mission of delivering scalable and secure blockchain solutions to institutions worldwide.

Annelise Osborne, Kadena’s Chief Business Officer, expressed enthusiasm about Ngoi’s appointment:

“We are thrilled to welcome Chris Ngoi to Kadena as an advisor, to help expand our institutional digital asset experience and global reach. Chris’s strong background in the institutional side of the industry and understanding of Asian markets will be instrumental as we continue to grow our ecosystem and offerings,” Osborne said.

Currently, Chris is the Chief Strategy and Business Officer of Libeara, a venture wholly owned and incubated by SC Ventures, the innovation, fintech investment, and ventures arm of Standard Chartered. He drives Libeara's go-to-market and business development objectives.

Before Libeara, he served as Director of Blockchain & Crypto at KPMG, where he advised central banks, global financial institutions, and governments. Those initiatives spanned across CBDCs, tokenized deposits, digital identity, and infrastructure design.

His professional background also includes work on the commercialization of DLT at UBS. Additionally, he served as Product Director at Fnality, a regulated financial market infrastructure backed by major banks and recognized by the Bank of England.

Chris is a committed educator and ecosystem builder. He lectures on blockchain, AI, and privacy tech at Singapore Management University and serves as a mentor with leading accelerator platforms, including Tribe and Tenity. Through these roles, Chris maintains active ties with projects across the space, from Quant to Unizen, further enriching his perspective on the convergence of TradFi and DeFi.

Chris joins Kadena at a pivotal time. As more institutions explore the potential of public blockchain infrastructure, Chris’s experience will help bridge established financial frameworks with Kadena’s proof-of-work scalability.

“Kadena is uniquely positioned to power the next generation of institutional blockchain adoption. I'm excited to support their work in building the infrastructure layer that meets the needs of both enterprises and public ecosystems,” Ngoi said.

Chris joins a distinguished advisory board that includes:

• Nitin Gaur: Former Managing Director at State Street and founder of IBM Digital Asset Labs with a deep understanding of crypto payment rails.
• Beatrice O’Carroll: Ex-Citibank and Circle exec helping shaping Kadena’s DeFi strategy
• Dr. Stuart Haber: Foundational figure in blockchain cryptography and the most-cited author in the Bitcoin whitepaper

We’re thrilled to welcome Chris to the Kadena ecosystem as we continue building the future of global finance—secure, scalable, and open.

About Kadena

Kadena, a blockchain technology company founded in 2016 by Stuart Popejoy and Will Martino, who created JP Morgan’s first blockchain and led the SEC’s Crypto Committee, stands as the industry’s only scalable layer-1 Proof of Work (PoW) blockchain. This unique scalability enables Kadena to deliver infrastructure-grade performance for any blockchain project. Along with our smart contract language Pact, Kadena’s platform provides the world with the tools and environment to turn ideas and ambitions into reality, paving the way for true blockchain mass adoption.