John O'Hara is a fintech entrepreneur, advisor, and angel investor. He holds non-executive director positions at Adaptive Financial Technology and Taskize, the latter he co-founded and sold to Euroclear.  A deep technologist and one of the first Distinguished Engineers at JPMorgan, John also served as Chief Architect for Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, BP Trading, and RBS/NatWest. He is the inventor of AMQP, which is incorporated into cloud products from Amazon, Microsoft, and Red Hat.  Additionally, he was a member of the team that created the FpML standard. John holds a joint degree in Electronic Engineering & Computer Science.