Ryan Pierce, Co-Chair Digital Asset Working Group, FIX Trading Community and Chair Product Advisory Committee, DTI Foundation
Ryan Pierce is an independent consultant with 25 years’ experience in financial trading, post-trade, and digital asset standards and architecture. He has served as Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Digital Asset Working Group since its founding in 2015. Appointed in 2018, he represents FIX on International Organization for Standardization (ISO) TC68/SC8/WG3 as an expert member.
Within ISO WG3, Ryan served as an author and editor for the ISO 24165 Digital Token Identifier (DTI) standard. The DTI Foundation, operated by Etrading Software and selected by ISO to act as the Registration Authority for the DTI standard, has appointed Ryan as Chair of its Product Advisory Committee. The PAC consists of experts in the digital asset space, making recommendations for the governance of DTI, the evolution of the DTI data records, and arbitrating on disputes concerning registry data.
Ryan worked for CME Group from 2010 to 2019, initially in Post Trade Technology where he defined FIXML standards for clearing listed derivatives, and later as Director and Technology Architect, Digitization where he contributed thought leadership in DLT, blockchain, and cryptocurrency technology, serving as technical lead for the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate and Bitcoin Real Time Index and CME Bitcoin Futures. Ryan managed the Digitization IP portfolio and holds seven US patents. He previously served as Technical Director of FIX Trading Community, and held software engineering positions as Vice President, Equities at Lehman Brothers, and at Townsend Analytics.
Ryan has taken leadership roles and authored key specification documents for FIX Trading Community ranging from adding listed derivatives support to FIX 4.1, creating the market data suite of messages in FIX 4.2, co-authoring the ‘FIX Security White Paper’, and collaborating in the creation of Parties Reference Data, Allocation Extensions, Trade Match Report, and CFTC Part 43 and 45 Reporting extensions to FIX 5.0 SP2. He has worked closely with the Global Exchanges and Markets Committee and the FIA Post Trade Working Group. Ryan is an active participant on the Global Technical Committee and
Americas Regional Committee and serves on the GTC and Americas Governance Boards.
Ryan is based in Chicago, and he concurrently studies Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University.