Peyman is Chief Technology Advisor at Virgo Group, the parent company of VirgoCX one of the top Cryptocurrency exchanges in Canada. Peyman provides strategic advisory on Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and Blockchain architecture to drive tech scale-up, reliability, low latency, security, and high availability.
Peyman is Chief Technology Officer of Blanc Labs and is responsible for leading all aspects of technology strategy, innovation, and delivery across all tech verticals. As a seasoned technology leader in Financial Services, Peyman specializes in the delivery of large-scale technology transformations in capital markets, banking, open banking, digital assets, and the FinTech landscape. Peyman established a bootcamp style training program for Blockchain engineering and development known as BL Digital Academy.
Previously, Peyman led the Toronto Stock Exchange Global Technology as Chief Technology Delivery Officer for several years. As a member of the TMX Executive Operating Committee, he was responsible for technology delivery across all TMX Group business lines and operations of all mission-critical trading and clearing platforms. In recognition of his leadership of large-scale Agile Transformation at TMX, Peyman was named a top finalist for the “Canadian CIO of the Year” award by IT World Canada in 2019. Peyman’s first exposure to Blockchain technology started in 2016 by evaluating the Central Counterparty Clearing CCP real-time Clearing & Settlement capabilities and securities tokenization concepts.
Peyman is an ICD.D designation holder and currently serves as a Director on the Board of Directors CIO Association of Canada.