Fabian Vandenreydt Bio

Fabian Vandenreydt joined Motive Partners in 2019 and is an Industry Partner. At Motive, Fabian sources and executes investment opportunities with a focus on strategy and growth for Motive portfolio companies, through his extensive experience in capital markets post-trade, financial market infrastructures and international payments. In parallel, he serves as a strategic advisor to Abu Dhabi Global Market and is also a member of the Consultative Working Group for European Securities Market Authority's Financial Innovation Standing Committee. Prior to joining Motive Partners, Fabian was executive chairman at B-Hive Europe, a collaborative innovation platform for financial technology. Previously, he was global head of securities and treasury markets, The SWIFT Institute, Innotribe and partner management at SWIFT. Several years responsibility for SWIFT’s Innotribe open innovation programme extended into membership with advisory services to an array of financial service and fintech industry groups and start-ups (with a focus on applied machine learning, digital asset servicing and regtech solutions). Prior to SWIFT, Fabian served as a managing principal at Capco, with a focus on post-trade market infrastructures, investment and transaction banks across Europe. Before that, he served as vice president and head of product management in communications services at JPMorgan/Euroclear. Fabian is the recipient of several awards in fintech and capital markets spaces, such as the Global Custodian’s Legend award, the Financial News’ 40 leaders of FinTech and the Institutional Investor’s 35 leaders in FinTech Finance. Fabian earned a M.B.A. from HEC-ULg and a M.S. in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.