A leadership team with a proven track record of deploying regulated financial infrastructure and scaling digital asset operations within Tier-1 global institutions.
Adam Popat
CEO
Matthew van Niekerk
Co-Founder & President
Roderik van der Veer
Co-Founder & CTO
Fabrizia Zanca
CWO
Adam Popat
CEO
Matthew Van Niekerk
Co-Founder & President
Roderik van der Veer
Co-Founder & CTO
Fabrizia Zanca
CWO
Impact
A leadership team built for execution
Digital asset infrastructure requires coordinated leadership across product, technology, and operations. SettleMint’s leadership team combines these capabilities to deliver and operate production-grade systems, with the governance, execution discipline, and institutional rigor required in regulated environments.
Institutional markets
Focused on strategic client segments, use cases, and revenue models.
AI-native organization
Embedding AI across teams to improve speed, productivity, and scalability.
Infrastructure Delivery
Built and operated enterprise systems in production.
Operational rigor
Structured execution to support sustained growth.
Adam Popat | Chief Executive Officer
Adam Popat leads SettleMint as CEO, bringing more than two decades of experience across finance, investment, M&A, and digital assets. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership roles at Standard Chartered, working across digital assets, corporate development, and investment activities.
Focus areas: Company strategy, global growth, market expansion, investor and board leadership
Matthew Van Niekerk | Co-Founder & President
Matthew Van Niekerk is Co-Founder of SettleMint and serves as President and Chief Growth Officer. He leads the company’s commercial strategy, business development, and strategic partnerships. Before founding SettleMint, he worked in financial services and banking, including at KBC, bringing a strong mix of market knowledge, commercial leadership, and early conviction in blockchain’s role in financial infrastructure.
Focus areas: Commercial strategy, partnerships, business development, market growth
Roderik van der Veer | Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer
Roderik van der Veer is Co-Founder and CTO of SettleMint. He leads the company’s technical direction, platform architecture, and product innovation. With deep experience in digital transformation and blockchain technology, he has helped shape SettleMint’s approach to making digital asset infrastructure usable in real enterprise environments.
Fabrizia Zanca leads people, operations, and marketing at SettleMint. With 15 years of experience across HR, SaaS, and remote-first companies, she helps shape how the company operates as it grows. Her role brings together HR operations, people experience, organizational design, culture, remote-first practices, and AI enablement to build a stronger, more effective organization.
Focus areas: Marketing, HR operations, people experience, organizational design, culture, remote-first ways of working, AI enablement
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