Nikhil Joshi

COO, Emurgo

Nikhil Joshi is the COO of EMURGO with a remit to increase its commercial adoption through build and investment. He oversees the build side of EMURGO’s Fintech, Media and Education products, as well as its incubation arm.

Prior to EMURGO, Nikhil was the COO of a Singaporean startup focused on solving trade and supply chain woes using Hyperledger Fabric and Corda. He successfully fundraised $7m for a Series A round during Covid. Before that, Nikhil spent 15 years with Barclays in London and Singapore, improving capital efficiency for New York and London structured credit desks, as well as lobbying global regulators on Basel I-IV. Latterly, he was involved in strategic and tactical initiatives using revenue, cost, funding, capital and liquidity levers to improve Return on Equity for Barclays' Asian business. He also worked extensively with Senior Relationship Management and IBD parts of the business on client strategy and cross-selling.