Wilshire, a global investment technology and advisory company, forms a new Digital Assets Advisory Group which will be chaired by Blythe Masters.
In a step to deliver an industry-standard Digital Assets Taxonomy System (DATS), the group will bring together digital asset practitioners to capture their collective perspectives and insights.
DATS allows the industry to categorise, manage and research digital asset technologies by identifying common usage types and underlying technologies, as well as investment themes.
Masters is the founding partner of Motive Partners, a specialist private equity firm, and brings more than three decades of experience to the newly formed group.
Prior to this, she held senior positions in a number of companies including Credit Suisse, A.P Moller- Maersk and GCM Grosvenor.
Most notably, Masters spent the majority of her career to date at J.P Morgan, where she headed several divisions such as global commodities, global credit portfolio and credit policy and strategy, and acted as chief financial officer of the investment bank.
Mark Makepeace, chief executive of Wilshire, comments: “I’m thrilled to announce Blythe Masters as the chair of the Wilshire Digital Assets Advisory Group. It’s incredibly important to bring together the leaders in this market to ensure institutional participants have the depth of independent research available to bring the right solutions to market for investors.
“By developing a standardised taxonomy with Digital Asset Research (DAR) that is aligned to the way investors already compare industry and sector trends, we continue to bring safer access to the digital assets market for institutional investors.”
Master adds: “The world of digital assets continues to develop at pace and is growing in importance, meaning it is absolutely the right time to develop a classification taxonomy to help investors make sense of it all. With Wilshire and DAR, we have the right partners involved, bringing the right experience and insights to the creation of a taxonomy, from which investors will see real benefits.”
