We are Canada's largest digital asset custodian.

With over five years of experience serving clients, Balance is a veteran of the Canadian blockchain space. Our leadership has decades of experience building software companies which has been instrumental to our success. We’ve surrounded ourselves with subject matter experts in compliance, finance, and law, to ensure we stay on the right side of regulation as we grow the business.

Executive Team

We're seasoned entrepreneurs building for the long haul.
George Bordianu
Co-founder,
Chief Executive Officer
George is a second-time founder with a strong technical background. He holds an MSc. in Computer Science from McGill University and prior to Balance worked in the digital media sector as 500px's Director of Engineering.
Baha Nurlybayev
Co-founder
Baha has extensive experience at the intersection of tech, finance, and digital assets, holds a B.A.Sc. in Management Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and was instrumental to the company during Balance’s early years.
Vladimir Li
Chief Technology Officer
Vlad is an established technical leader. He holds a BSc. in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo and prior to Balance was responsible for infrastructure serving over 12M worldwide users at 500px.
Nuno Silva
Chief Product Officer
Nuno is a senior product executive with decades of experience. Prior to Balance he co-founded and scaled the media licensing co-operative, Stocksy United to over $10M in annual earnings in less than 4 years.
Dustin Plett
Chief Sales Officer
Dustin is an experienced senior sales executive closing enterprise deals since 2009. Prior to Balance he helped grow 500px from a dozen staff to over a hundred and led it through an acquisition as interim CEO.

Board

World-class senior leadership drives our strategy.
George Bordianu
Internal seat
George's deep knowledge of the company's day to day and its challenges in his role as CEO is instrumental to the board. In addition to the internal seat, he is also the current chairperson as well as President of the corporation.
Alex McDougall
Affiliated seat
Alex is the co-founder and CIO of Bicameral Ventures, one of Toronto's first native digital asset funds. He is also the President and CEO of Stablecorp, and a former Managing Director at 3iQ, the issuer of North America's first exchange listed Bitcoin fund.
James Slazas
Affiliated seat
James is a founding partner of DARMA Capital, a digital asset firm with billions of dollars under management. James brings over 30 years of experience in the financial industry, having most recently run Capital Markets at Consensys.

Advisors

Our advisors help us stay on the right track.
Geoffrey Cher
Partner, Wildeboer Dellelce
Regulatory
Marc Richardson Arnould
National Corporate Law Services Leader, EY
Regulatory
Michael Rabkin
Head of Institutional Sales, DV Chain
BizDev
Jean Desgagne
Director, 3iQ
Strategy

Industry Partners

We work closely together for your peace of mind.

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