Our StoryBUILT FOR PEOPLE,
TRUSTED BY NATIONS.

FROM VISION TO VELOCITY Movmint builds the rails to move money.

Movmint provides digital treasury and clearing services for enterprises, banks, and central banks. From instant cross-border payments to national digital currency platforms, we make financial systems faster, simpler, and more connected.

Our technology replaces delays with real-time settlement and brings programmable control to large-scale money movement. Whether you’re managing liquidity for a mine or launching a CBDC, Movmint delivers the infrastructure to move value with purpose.

Get to know our team

THE MOVMINT DIFFERENCEPRIVATE CLEARING
PUBLIC TRUST

By integrating directly with existing banking infrastructure while enabling next generation digital currency platforms, Movmint delivers the resilience, security, and interoperability that modern economies demand. This is where sovereign trust meets institutional scale, ensuring that value moves with confidence across borders, currencies, and markets.

Meet Our TeamTHE MOVMINT STARTS HERE

John KimCo-Founder, Director and General Counsel

Lawyer. Professor. Navigator. DJ.

A former partner at the global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright and a leader in the firm’s Fintech practice group, John is among the most experienced legal experts on digital currencies, digital assets and the application of blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies. John led the team that won the Central Banking Publication Advisor Of The Year Award for Fintech and Digital Projects (2020). John also teaches at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Allard School of Law.

 

Jesse LundChief Executive Officer

Banker. Technologist. Visionary. Builder.

A former executive at IBM and Wells Fargo, Jesse is a recognized leader in digital finance and blockchain innovation. At IBM, he launched and led the Blockchain and Digital Currencies practice, spearheading global initiatives to reimagine cross-border payments and financial infrastructure. With a career bridging traditional banking and cutting-edge fintech, Jesse is a trusted advisor to central banks, financial institutions, and technology firms exploring the future of money. As Co-Founder of several ventures in the decentralized finance space, Jesse is shaping the next generation of global financial systems rooted in security, transparency, and inclusion.

Martin HunterHead Of Growth

Industrialist. Operator. Builder. Catalyst.

Martin Hunter is an industrialist and operator with over 30 years of global experience across military, corporate, and entrepreneurial ventures. From large-scale infrastructure to strategic advisory, Martin has built and scaled complex organisations across continents — always with a bias for action and a focus on execution. As Head of Growth at Movmint, he leads market expansion, ecosystem development, and strategic partnerships to advance the future of sovereign digital currency. Martin is known for navigating complexity, forging trusted relationships, and turning bold ideas into operational reality.

Michael DowlingChief Technology Officer

Systems-Whisperer. Orchestrator. Provocateur. Technophile.

Michael is a seasoned technology leader with three decades of experience building secure, scalable systems for global payments, banking, and blockchain innovation. He has led technical teams at commercial and central banks worldwide on distributed ledger strategies, and headed technology for IBM WorldWire – a multi-currency blockchain clearing and near-instant settlement network for cross-border value transfers.
Previously, he served in senior architecture roles at Visa, Wells Fargo, and ThoughtWorks, shaping payment platforms, mobile wallet services, and agile transformations. As interim CTO and later strategic advisor to Bermuda-based Jewel Bank, Michael oversaw the creation of an open-banking infrastructure and digital asset products in a highly regulated environment.
Michael enjoys dabbling in the Dark Side of the Force and is known for electrocuting anyone in his way.

Darrell KopkeChairman & Chief Marketing Officer

Entrepreneur. Operator. Educator. Changemaker.

As the original General Manager of Lululemon Athletica, Darrell helped shape the global athleisure movement, scaling the company from a single store to over 60 locations and growing annual revenues from $1 million to over $200 million. As Co-Founder of Wafr Technologies, he is leading the mission to bring sustainability to AI data centres with its proprietary cooling system. Darrell also brings his expertise to academia and venture mentorship, serving as Faculty at UBC’s Sauder School of Business and Executive Director of the Creative Destruction Lab Vancouver, where he supports deep-tech startups tackling climate and sustainability challenges.

Malavan Balanavaneethan Vice President Engineering

Coder. Architect. Guru. Cricketer.

Malavan is a master full-stack engineer and an expert in designing and implementing national and cross-border digital payments and settlement infrastructure. He brings several cycles of government infrastructure projects implementation and was formerly a lead member of the IBM Asia-Pacific Blockchain practice and the coding magician at the heart of the IBM World Wire project. Malavan led the development and deployment of three critical payment systems in Singapore, including GIRO, PayNow and FAST.

Stanley YongChief Product Officer

Central Banker. Economist. Technologist. Sailor.

Stanley is the former head of JP Morgan’s wholesale payments product design team for the Onyx business. He also served as Chief Technology Officer of IBM’s global blockchain for financial services, Global head of CBDC for IBM, and the co-Founder of Deloitte’s Southeast Asia Blockchain Centre of Excellence. Stanley spent a decade within Singapore’s central bank as an economist studying and formulating strategies for retail e-payments adoption, currency supply models, and directing the Office for Innovation Acceleration which incubated Project Ubin, and catalysed other fintech industry projects.

 

Ruby ChengSoftware Engineer and QA Manager

Engineer. Observer. Makeup Lover.

Ruby is a software engineer and QA manager who likes to break things. From an early age, Ruby showed a special aptitude for discord and carnage, all in service of a better understanding how things work. Her penchant for destruction had originally led her to study electrical engineering as a teenager, but she quickly found that endless hours of designing boards and soldering ruined her pretty nails. Finding that really, really unacceptable, Ruby tried her hand at programming and wrote her first “Hello Word!!” Visual Basic console application and never looked back. Today, she is happily breaking apart and reimagining code and is awesome at it. For Ruby, understanding how things break is the first step in making sure something will work and it is her singular focus on wreckage and mayhem that helps Movmint create the best solutions on Earth.

Vinay MohanCo-Founder, Director

Builder. Philosopher. Analyst. Culinarian.

Vinay is a management consultant with a track record of delivering transformative projects in financial services and the public sector. In a career marked by pivotal moments in the rise of platform-based financial services and enterprise blockchain technology, Vinay served in key delivery positions at Oracle and KPMG before founding the Asia-Pacific operations of ConsenSys. Vinay was a pioneering participant in the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Project Ubin, as well as wider initiatives to build the Singapore blockchain ecosystem.

Meet Our Advisors

Bluford H. Putnam, PhD

Bluford H. Putnam, PhD (“Blu”) is the Chief Economist and Managing Director for CME Group, the largest operator of futures and options exchanges in the world, including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, and the New York Mercantile Exchange. He is a former central banker with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as well as experience with Chase Manhattan Bank in the private sector. Blu’s professional focus spans Bayesian economics, central banking, investment banking and asset management. He has authored seven books on international finance and has also written many academic and business press articles, including for The American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, among many others. Blu’s work at Movmint provides insights into the macroeconomic impacts of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), as well as contributing to the design of unique CBDC native products and services.

Amit Mital

Amit Mital has over three decades of experience as a technologist, investor and entrepreneur. He was appointed by President Biden to the National Security Council (NSC) as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies, focusing on US strategy and policy in relation to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), critical infrastructure security, AI and quantum computing. Amit was formerly the CTO, Executive Vice President and General Manager at world-renowned cybersecurity company Symantec Corporation, where he was responsible for driving the company’s technology strategy and core security technology. Amit is also a twenty-year veteran of Microsoft, where he was Corporate Vice President and led numerous innovations and strategic product development initiatives. Amit holds 43 patents and is an innovator in several technologies including machine learning and high-scale cloud services. He has a M.S. in Engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Amit’s work at Movmint guides our global CBDC strategy, our technology development roadmap and assists our engagement with central banks and governments around the world.