RONALD M. TUCKER

Founder & Chair-Emeritus  |   Blockchain Australia (ADCCA) 

Convener  V20 Summit | Founder International. Digital Asset Exchange Association (IDAXA) 

Founder  |  Bit Trade Australia (Kraken)

About

"Ronald M. Tucker is the founder and chair-emeritus of Blockchain Australia (the 'Australian Digital Currency & Commerce Association') the peak body for blockchain businesses in Australia, co-convenor of the 'Global Blockchain Forum' (an informal industry body representing trade associations for the US, Canada, the UK, UAE, Singapore, Japan, Australia et al) and founder of the International Digital Asset Exchange Association (IDAXA).


Mr. Tucker has been living in Australia for more than a decade, and presently resides in Sydney as well as Asia. He launched Bit Trade Australia, the countries first successful crypto exchange in 2013, and its sister company Bit Trade Labs, a blockchain development consultancy a year later.


Ron organised and led the successful industry response to the Digital Currency Inquiry called by the Senate Economics References Committee in 2015, the two-day 'Global Digital Currency Conversation' forum during the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Brisbane 2014, and assisted in the establishment of Australia's Parliamentary Friends of Blockchain Committee. 


He has worked closely with Australian and Chinese officials, as well as other APAC jurisdictions, on bi-lateral and multi-lateral blockchain ecosystem policy development. His consultative work with regulatory stakeholders has resulted in progressive policy and legislative outcomes for the digital economy in a number of jurisdictions.


Mr. Tucker also spearheaded a worlds-first 'Digital Currency Code of Conduct' initiative by industry, delivering a national self-regulatory (SRO) mechanism to ensure VASP's AML–CTF best-practices, following the Senate's recommendations to do so (adopted by government), subsequently underpinning policy templates abroad.


He is presently engaged in consulting and government relations advisory work in the APAC region for the crypto asset industry. 


Most recently, Mr Tucker organised the Virtual Asset Service Providers Summit ('V20 Summit' – an officially endorsed business event of the G20), bringing together the worlds largest crypto exchanges, national trade associations, regulators (such as the Financial Action Task Force and Financial Stability Board) with legislators in Japan, during the 2019 Osaka G20 Leaders Summit, as well as the Bali G20 Leaders Summit, 2022.


Ron was born in Newfoundland, Canada in 1981, and undertook studies in IT (Canada) as well as Business Management (Australia). He travels extensively for work in his advisory roles, and has been an entrepreneur for most of his working life having started businesses in the areas of retail, marketing, technology, government relations, and publishing in the US and Canada."

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