John Davies has worked his way up from hardware design though assembly code, C, C++ and Java programming, head of dealing room technology trading to global chief architect at two large investment banks. The majority of his 25 plus years has been in investment banking. In 2000, John co-founded his second company C24 specializing in SWIFT, FpML and IS0-20022 messaging, selling it to Iona Technologies in 2007. John is currently chief architect at Revolution Money in the US and recently started a new company called Incept5. John has 3 young boys, Luc, James and Pierre, a French wife Rachel and lives in London when he's not traveling, his main hobby is B&W photography.

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