About Tetra Trust Company

Canada’s first licensed digital asset custodian

Founded in 2019, Tetra is Canada’s first licensed digital asset custodian. Our platform provides enterprise-grade custody of digital assets for institutional clients. Backed by WonderFi, Urbana Corporation, Canadian Securities Exchange, Icebook Investments Corp and Coinbase Ventures, Tetra provides a solution to one of the last remaining problems preventing institutional adoption of the digital asset industry–custody.

Led by a first class team of security, product, and business experts and a board of directors with extensive trust company experience, Tetra delivers the most advanced digital asset storage technology in the industry.

Executive team

Didier Lavallée

Chief Executive Officer

Didier brings over 16 years of capital markets and asset servicing experience, which makes him well positioned to grow Tetra’s digital asset custody. Prior to becoming CEO of Tetra, Didier held various leadership positions at the Royal Bank of Canada including Head of Canadian Custody Product for RBC Investor and Treasury Services. Before that, Didier also ran RBC I&TS North American FX Sales Trading team, FX Product and held various roles in capital markets with RBC, UBS and Genuity. Didier holds a B.A. in Finance and Administrative Studies from Western University.

Femina Dharshi

Chief Compliance Officer

Femina has been in Compliance for various financial institutions globally for over 20 years. She has held senior roles such as Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer.

She is an expert at building and managing Compliance programs, and working with stakeholders to help meet overarching objectives at an accelerated pace.
Femina holds degrees in Economics and Law, and has completed several programs in Leadership, Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit.

Marie-Chantal Leduc

Chief of Staff

Marie-Chantal brings over a decade of experience in consulting and investment. Prior to joining Tetra, Marie-Chantal was the executive director of BlockZero Advisors, a boutique management consulting firm specializing in the transformation of the financial infrastructure through emerging technologies like blockchain and digital assets. She also spent over 7 years at KPMG Canada, where she led several large strategic mandates for both the public and the private sector, notably in areas as diverse as AI in financial services, blockchain, and advanced manufacturing. She is currently part of the advisory committee on technological innovation (or Comité consultatif sur l’innovation technologique, CCIT) for the Autorité des marchés financiers of Québec. Marie-Chantal holds a master’s degree in finance from HEC Montréal.

Phil Buchanan

Director of Product

Phil is a product leader with over 15 years of experience applying design thinking to products that embrace the advances and complexities of technologies. Prior to joining Tetra, Phil ran product and design teams at several startups, and developed and delivered interaction design curriculum to hundreds of students in the Department of Design at York University.

Glenn Pangilinan

Director of Operations

Glenn has over a decade of experience in trading and exchange operations with fintech startups and large institutional banks. He has led the operational overhaul for major banking institutions and has started the operations of various FX brokerages and exchanges globally. He has held previous roles in FX operations and product management with the Royal Bank of Canada and market operations for LMAX Exchange. Glenn holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia and an MSc in international Political Economy from the London School of Economics.