Ryan Hayward

Ryan is based in London and heads up Digital Assets globally at Barclays. Ryan setup the DA team in 2024, which is responsible for digital asset strategy, governance and the establishment of new asset, money and tokenisation initiatives across the bank. Prior to that, Ryan was one of the founding team members of the Barclays Principal Investments team in 2018 and led Barclays Strategic Investment activities across Europe and Asia.

Ryan joined Barclays in 2011 as an M&A advisor in the investment bank and moved to the Strategy and Corporate Development team in 2013, where he acted as a principal in originating and executing M&A transactions.

Prior to Barclays, Ryan was at Nevsky Capital, a $7bn long/short equity asset manager, where he covered a range of sectors including oil & gas, chemicals and agriculture and before that worked at Deutsche Bank as a corporate finance advisor in the Industrials practice across Europe.

Ryan holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford and an MA (Oxon) from the University of Oxford.