Metaco, a provider of digital asset custody and orchestration technology, has appointed a number of key executives to its leadership team, to address increased demand for institutional digital asset services.

Former global head of digital asset infrastructure at IBM, Peter DeMeo, joins the company as chief product officer, overseeing the product roadmap planning and lifecycle execution of Metaco’s suite of software and infrastructure solutions for institutions, and also responsible for setting up the company’s digital asset advisory practice which provides strategic direction and consulting to the business and to its clients. Having created IBM’s digital asset key management practice going back to 2017, DeMeo brings deep domain expertise to the company in digital asset key management and holds patents for hardened, policy based crypto transaction signing and quantum-safe offline cloud cold storage.

Former IBM lead architect, Angel Nunez Mencias is also going Metaco as chief customer officer. Nunez Mencias, oversaw two decades of software enterprise design at the computing giant, including managing the development of its Hyper Protect Cloud services.