An Almanack for Finance, Operations & Code · Vol. I · MMXXVI

Benedict W. H. Dixon

An operator at the intersection of AI & finance.

About

A decade-plus running and building companies in financial technology. Operator, COO, CTO. Deep across product, technology, operations and ecosystems. The throughline is finance, top to bottom. The leverage is AI, end to end.

JPMorgan to Kash. A patented B2B payment system. A $150M L1 ecosystem with 45K+ users. A stablecoin steered through acquisition. An enterprise-grade microservice platform shipped solo. The breadth is the point.

Key achievements

  1. Built and scaled an L1 ecosystem from concept to $150M+ with 45K+ users.
  2. Co-invented a patented real-time B2B payment system at JPMorgan.
  3. Navigated a successful acquisition, preserving millions in assets during transition.
  4. Built an enterprise-grade 50+ microservice platform from scratch as sole engineer in six months.

Career

  • Kash — COO & Interim CTO · prediction marketplace (2025–)
  • DD Ventures — Founding Partner · advisory (2025–)
  • Brdge — Head of Blockchain · AI consultancy (2024)
  • Voi Network — Chief Ecosystem Officer · L1 (2024–2025)
  • Pound Token — Chief Technology Officer · UK stablecoin (2023–2024)
  • Nettle — Chief Product & Technology Officer · payments & loyalty (2022–2023)
  • Icon Solutions — Senior Software Engineer · real-time payments (2021–2022)
  • MAIA / Fulcrum — Fullstack Software Engineer · hedge fund (2019–2021)
  • American Express — Fullstack Software Engineer · R&D, customer acquisition (2018–2019)
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co — Software Engineer · patented B2B payments (2015–2018)
  • University of Bath — BSc Computer Science

Services

For founders, operators and boards.

  • Executive & Operational Advisory — organisational design and scaling, operational process architecture, financial controls and governance, executive leadership coaching.
  • Product & Technology Strategy — product-market fit analysis, technical architecture review, AI/blockchain/payments strategy, scalability and infrastructure planning.
  • Growth & Go-to-Market — ecosystem and community growth, partnership and BD strategy, stakeholder and investor management, team building and culture.

Available via DD Ventures — entrepreneurship advisory helping founders launch, run and scale companies.

Writing

All writing → · How I work with AI →

Speaking

  • Zebu Live — Tokenomics Design & Strategy
  • Algorand at Tate Modern — Tokenomics Design & Strategy

Open to keynotes and panels on AI, fintech, distributed systems, blockchain and the operator's lens on technical leadership.

Contact

Email: me@benedictdixon.com
LinkedIn: /in/benedict-dixon
Twitter / X: @bwhdx
GitHub: @bwhdx
Advisory: dd.ventures