Serjantov is joining Nym from BNP Paribas, a French international banking group, bringing with his sixteen years of financial experience to the world of privacy-focused tokens. As CFO of Nym, Serjantov will work closely with the team to develop its privacy infrastructure, primarily its multi-purpose mixnet that helps enable privacy for any application, as well as the underlying finances of their NYM token.

“As the bear market rages on, all eyes are on crypto to prove its worth. Skeptics assume people join crypto to make a quick buck and scam the typical user, but those working through the bear market have something more to prove. Working with Nym, I will develop a project that isn’t just about making money, but about providing something valuable to the world, and I can’t wait to get started,” said Andrei Serjantov.

Harry Halpin, Nym CEO, says: “Andrei as a young Ph.D. student co-invented the very idea of measuring anonymity with current Nym employees George Danezis and Claudia Diaz. He also was the first person to really analyze attacks on privacy of systems like us and Tor based on timing. Now, we’re proud to have Andrei come back to his roots in privacy and where his skills can be used to push the boundaries of the economics of privacy as both a fundamental right but also a new asset class.”

NymSerjantov received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge entitled “On the anonymity of anonymity systems”, co-authoring ground-breaking work on anonymous communication systems with George Danezis (Nym co-founder, recently returned in August 2021 from Libra). Dr. Serjantov then spent 16 years at BNP Paribas with his most recent title being Head of Electronic Credit Trading and Head of Flow Credit Quantitative Research.