Nick Philpott is a market structure specialist with
15 years experience and is currently the Chief
Operating Officer and co-founder of Zodia
Markets, a cryptoasset brokerage and exchange
business based in the UK.

He joined Standard Chartered’s graduate
programme in 2006 after a short career in the
British Army. He followed that with roles in
Financial Markets Sales in Lagos, Nigeria, and
COO positions across FX, Rates, Credit and
Repo trading in both London and Singapore.
He joined the Financial Markets e-Trading team
in 2015 where was the Head of Market Structure,
moving to the Bank’s SC Ventures
arm in 2020 to co-found Zodia Markets.