Antoni Martín
Antoni Martin is the Co-Founder of Polygon, the leading platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. As enterprise lead at Polygon, he is the primary point of contact for everyone from big banks to governments that want to learn more about the blockchain technology effort. He also serves as the Co-Founder and Business Development Lead at iden3 and Polygon Hermez, an open-source, zk-roll up optimized for secure, low-cost and usable token transfers on Ethereum. Prior to joining the blockchain movement, Antoni served as an economist for 20 years. He has extensive experience in a large multinational environment where he gained expertise in international project management. He spent many years working for Citibank and Deutsche Bank before diving into the blockchain world.
Antoni Martín Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder and Enterprise Lead
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Co-Founder and Business Development Lead
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Intrapreneur Initiative - Digital Asset Platform Development
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Investment Banking Specialist
Antoni leads Polygon in providing information to everyone that wants to learn more about the firm’s blockchain technology efforts.
He leads the business development and future growth opportunities for the enterprise, acting as a liaison for governments, regulators, banks, consultancy, or ETH companies implementing L2 solutions
He is passionate about empowering Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) and scalability, and developing edge-tech financial solutions through Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP).
Antoni spent nearly 15 years at Deutsche Bank in a number of leadership roles across multiple divisions.
He was most recently Deutsche Bank's leader in Intrapreneur Initiative in the firm's Digital Asset Platform development.
He was also involved in Deutsche Bank's digital product development, product governance and reputational risk, and business development.
EARLY BANKING CAREER
He was involved in Banca Privada d'Andorra's Treasury and Capital Markets.
He was an Investment Banking Specialist at Citibank. He began his career as an Assistant in Akzo Nobel Chemicals.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Antoni has been featured or quoted in CoinDesk and Cointelegraph.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.