Edward Banas has a passion for leveraging his financial experiences into shareholder value. Throughout his career his leadership skills have allowed him to create and execute vision and strategy at crypto, internet, and Wall Street companies while holding titles such as CEO, CFO, and Treasurer. He often steps outside of the CFO organization and works with all areas to develop products, markets, and processes which increase revenues or decrease expenses. Ed sees synergistic connections and brings diverse groups together to optimize end to end processes. He has focused his career on being a key thought leader for organizations by helping them think outside of the box. In terms of being a leader and manager, Ed’s guiding attributes include: • Collaborative strategic planning • Result-oriented through team participation • Innovative methods and solutions • Creative problem solver • When needed, a change agent. The following selected team accomplishments highlight these skills: • Implemented the first multi-billion dollar, multi-currency, global secured committed credit facility allowing High Yield Securities as a form of collateral • Managed the highest yielding money market fund in the U.S. • Created the treasury infrastructure for the largest global P2P internet and crypto payment networks.