Duane Block

Managing Director
20+ years of financial services experience across retail banking and payments, wealth and asset management, and financial markets infrastructure
Has a demonstrated track record of accelerating digital asset adoption at leading financial services institutions
Actively contributes to the digital asset ecosystem as an author, steering committee member, and advisory board participant
Chicago
@alvarezmarsal
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Duane Block is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Crypto Advisory in Chicago. He specializes in the institutional adoption of digital assets. Mr. Block works with banks, payment networks, broker-dealers, asset managers, and other industry participants, helping them to identify, monetize, implement, and operationalize capabilities and offerings within and across the digital asset ecosystem.

Mr. Block has over 20 years of financial services advisory experience, with the past decade focused on helping leading financial institutions embrace cryptocurrency as an asset class and capitalize on the increasing utility of stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and tokenized assets. He has led engagements spanning digital asset strategy, operating model definition, ecosystem partner selection, stablecoin smart contract development, blockchain network operations, and enterprise risk management. 

In addition to his client work, Mr. Block served as a member of the Digital Dollar Project Advisory Board, where he co-authored Modernizing the US Dollar for the Future of Digital Networks. He also served on the Steering Committee of the Tokenization in Financial Markets Initiative at the World Economic Forum and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Future of Finance Initiative at The Wharton School. In addition to publishing thought pieces, Mr. Block has been frequently quoted in the financial press on topics relating to digital asset adoption. 

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Block was a Managing Director at Accenture, where he led the Digital Assets business. 

Mr. Block earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He also earned a certificate in fintech from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a certificate in cybersecurity from Harvard University, and a certificate in data and analytics from Northwestern University.