Jay Katz is a technology executive and entrepreneur recognized as one of the original architects of the modern syndicated loan market. As the founding CIO and lead architect behind the industry’s first digital settlement platform, he played a pivotal role in moving the market from manual, paper-based processing to an integrated online environment. He later co-founded Storm Networks, an effort to further modernize connectivity and data sharing across the global loan market.

Today, as CEO of Loan Market Solutions at Etherealize, he is leading the development of a next-generation market solution designed to make loan settlement more streamlined and predictable through the strategic application of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Building on decades of experience advancing market innovation, he continues to work with industry participants to develop solutions that improve transparency, efficiency and trust across the broadly syndicated loan and private credit markets.