David Puth is the Treasurer of The Trebuchet, and serves as one of The Trebuchet’s Directors.
Puth is the CEO of Centre which governs the technology, policy, compliance, audit and reserve standards for USD Coin (USDC), the fastest growing dollar-based digital currency in the world.
Centre was founded with the mission to connect every person, merchant, financial service and currency in the world through the power of digital currency and open public blockchain networks.
He was formerly the Executive Chairman of Kelvin Zero, a Canadian based data security company that enables businesses to safely transform information from analog to digital processes.
Mr. Puth previously served as Chairman of the Advisory Board of Whitney Strategic Services, a technology company empowering decision makers in both the public and private sectors by providing actionable intelligence in a timely manner. He was also a founding member of The Council, an advisory firm that provides advice and counsel to the executive leaders of public and private enterprises.
David is the former CEO of the CLS Group, having stepped down as of September 2018.
David was among my first cadre of Tufts students, when I taught a semester at the university in 1978, and has been a close friend ever since. Incisive, intelligent, and of the highest integrity, I hold him in the highest possible regard - when Bloomberg in their article “The Currency Ethicist: One Man’s Push to Fix a Tarnished Market” asked me to comment for their profile of David’s remarkable effort to reform the corrupt practices of the currency-trading industry, I proudly told them, “This is the right guy. He has a steely, uncompromising sensibility about what’s right and what’s wrong. This is a man who rolls up his sleeves.”
David’s career spans more than three decades in financial markets, including 19 years at J.P. Morgan where he served in a variety of senior global leadership roles with oversight of the bank’s FX, interest rate derivatives, commodities and emerging markets businesses. He also served as a member of J.P. Morgan’s Executive Committee. After leaving J.P. Morgan in 2007, he founded The Eriska Group, a New York‐based risk management consulting organization. From 2008 through 2011, David worked at State Street, where he was head of Global Markets and a member of State Street’s Executive Management Committee. His responsibilities included sales, trading and investment research across multiple asset classes, including FX, and for Currenex, the firm’s electronic FX brokerage business.
Outside of the industry, David serves on a number of boards in support of education and the arts, including the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston and the Berkshire School Endowment Committee. He is also a longstanding board member of the Robin Hood Foundation in New York, one of the country’s leading poverty fighting organizations.