He is also Vice Chairman of Endor, a blockchain-enabled crowd intelligence platform; advisor to Millennium Advisors, a middle market credit liquidity provider, on technology trends and growth management; and served as strategic advisor to Ripple. Shrier has helped established organizations to develop and build new revenue streams, having developed growth opportunities with C-suite executives for Dun & Bradstreet, Wolters Kluwer, Ernst & Young, GE, The Walt Disney Company, AOL Verizon, and Starwood, as well as private equity and venture capital funds. He has led a number of private equity and venture capital-backed companies as CEO, CFO or COO.
Learning Innovation
Shrier created the MIT online fintech course “Future Commerce” that educated thousands of students in over 120 countries, adapting his successful on-campus MIT graduate course of the same name. In 2017, he re-created his online programme at University of Oxford's Saïd Business School under the name Oxford Fintech, and added a second programme Oxford Blockchain Strategy. The Dean of SBS teaches one of the modules in Oxford Fintech. David also co-founded and is Chairman of Riff Learning, an MIT spinout company that is applying artificial intelligence to reshape collaboration. David is on the advisory board of WorldQuant University, a program offering a totally-free, accredited, online master's degree in financial engineering.
Government & Regulatory work
Shrier has collaborated with regulators and policymakers in the US, UK, EU, and through the OECD its member countries, to help shape emerging policy on disruptive technologies. He is presently a member of the FinTech Industry Committee for FINRA, the U.S. securities industry's self-regulatory body; and the Fintech Trade & Investment Steering Board for the UK Government's Department of International Trade. David also advises the European Parliament, European Commission, and OECD on digital identity, AML/KYC, blockchain, and AI. He previously advised the European Commission on commercializing innovation with a focus on digital technology, and the Government of Dubai on blockchain and digital identity.
Academia
Shrier has a triple academic appointment as an Associate Fellow with the Said Business School, University of Oxford; Lecturer at the MIT Media Lab; and Fellow with the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. Shrier has written for numerous publications including Forbes, CNBC, Newsweek, and The Asian Banker. He also co-edits the MIT Connection Science imprint of MIT Press and is the author of various industry reference books:
Books
Frontiers of Financial Technology, New Solutions for Cybersecurity
Trust::Data: A New Framework for Identity and Data Sharing
