Edward Noyons

Edward, known as Eddie to his clients, is the Managing Director of Marfire and focuses on providing Directorship and Token Administration Services to web3 funds, DAOs /foundations and OpCo’s.

In his previous role, Eddie served as an Audit Director at KPMG in the Cayman Islands, where he fulfilled the engagement leader role signing external audit opinions for some of the world’s largest digital asset and asset management funds. He was a founding member of KPMG's digital asset sub-practice helping develop the methodology, tools and resources now used globally by KPMG. Eddie has over 10 years of external audit experience, leading digital asset and asset management clients including a wide range of both onshore and offshore investment management structures, strategies, and investment products in both the digital asset and traditional asset management sectors.

Eddie had his first experience with digital assets in 2016, initially effecting an arbitrage trading strategy with Bitcoin. This led to a deep dive into Bitcoin, and eventually the larger ecosystem with Eddie’s interest now being predominantly in the DeFi sub-sector, where he personally enjoys experimenting with liquidity pools, lending protocols and other DeFi activities across multiple blockchains.

Eddie grew up in South Africa, where he completed his education in accounting and finance.

Eddie has been a resident of the Cayman Islands for over 10 years, giving him a keen insight into the mechanics of navigating offshore jurisdictions and a deep knowledge and network of both offshore and onshore service providers.

Qualifications:

o   Bachelor of Commerce – Accounting (University of KwaZuluNatal) 2010

o   Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting (University of KwaZuluNatal) 2011

o   Chartered Accountant CA (SA)

o   Member of the Cayman Islands Institute of Professional Accountants