Mr. Roth has held Chief Risk Officer roles in both traditional and digital financial institutions. Most recently, he served as interim Chief Risk Officer at AsiaNext, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, where he established the firm’s risk management architecture, including governance, controls, and collateral frameworks, and led the redesign of its perpetual futures product.

Previously, as Chief Risk Officer at Zodia Markets, a startup digital asset exchange and brokerage with a complex financial, operational, cyber, and financial crime risk profile, he designed and implemented a comprehensive risk framework which enabled the firm’s successful registration with the UK Financial Conduct Authority as a cryptoasset service provider.

Mr. Roth spent eight years at the Bank of England (and previously the Financial Services Authority), where he worked across supervision and prudential policy. He advised on complex regulatory arbitrage issues, counterparty credit risk, and risk culture, as well as contributing to international regulatory initiatives, including a Basel Committee working group tasked with analysis of the impact of regulation on the global repo markets.

Earlier in his career, he held senior risk roles at HSBC, WestLB, Rabobank, and Caspian Securities, developing advanced approaches to counterparty credit risk, valuation of credit-risky derivatives, and traded risk management. At HSBC, he led global funds credit risk analytics and helped evolve the bank’s approach to valuing credit-risky transactions by integrating expert judgement with quantitative models.

Mr. Roth began his financial services career at National Westminster Bank, where he held a range of business strategy, risk and treasury roles over more than a decade, contributing to the development of one of the earliest regulator-approved value-at-risk models in the UK and advising senior management on capital allocation and strategic risk exposures.

He has published extensively on risk management and financial markets in outlets including Risk.net, the Financial Times, and the Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin. He holds an MA from Oxford University and pursued graduate studies in Operations Research at Stanford University.