Rob Leahy | Strategy & Operations

A B O U T

Here is a little background

I am Rob. I have spent the past five years in strategy and operations across enterprise SaaS, financial services, and early-stage startups. I have co-founded two companies, pitched investors across the UAE, Europe, and Buenos Aires. I am looking for a team in London that moves fast and builds things.

E X P E R I E N C E

Co-Founder - BD & Operations

Basalt Protocol

Sep 2025 - Jan 2026

Built and ran the outbound pipeline end to end, from account research to sequencing and follow-up
Led BD for an RWA-collateralised DeFi lending protocol on Solana
Sourced 12+ qualified VC and partner meetings through structured prospecting

Co-Founder - BD & Operations

Convertica Protocol

Apr 2025 - Aug 2025

AI semantic integrity protocol - confidential computing + blockchain verification
Pitched at major digital asset conferences and AI summits
Near Gravity hackathon award for AI/blockchain integration

Business Implementation Analyst

Utmost International

Dec 2023 - Jun 2025

Compliance KPIs improved from 70% to 95%
Resolution times reduced by 30% through cross-functional process optimisation
UK life insurance portfolio bonds - regulatory compliant tax reporting

Process Improvement Analyst

ION Group

Mar 2022 - Feb 2023

Replaced a manual email-based license process with a self-service dashboard, cutting turnaround from 3-4 hours to under 20 minutes (~90%)
Scoped requirements and coordinated across dev and product to delivery, routing structured requests through Jira

Operations Engineer

SAP

Sep 2020 - Jan 2022

Cloud Platform Integration support for enterprise clients in manufacturing and financial services
Multi-Bank Connectivity team - payment integration and banking connectivity

S K I L L S & T O O L S

Skills

Operations
Strategy
Business Development
AI & Automation
Process Improvement

Tools

Claude Code
n8n
Jira
Notion
Excel & Google Sheets

D E M O S

Proof I can do the work

Hands-on AI builds, not slideware.

n8n · multi-tool AI pipeline~2 hours → ~15 minutes to research-backed drafts

Content research & drafting pipeline

A multi-tool automation I built out in n8n that takes the manual grind out of content research. I followed a reference architecture and wired up every integration and prompt myself. Step through it:

Pulls top-performing YouTube and X content via Apify to see what's already working.

1 / 4

Models routed via OpenRouter. Stops at reviewed drafts, no auto-posting.

P R O J E C T S

Selected builds

NEAR Hackathon, BerlinHackathon award for AI/blockchain integration

Near Gravity - Misinformation Detection Platform

Built a misinformation detection platform using LLM embeddings and blockchain for real-time verification. Combined AI semantic analysis with on-chain proof of verification to create a trustless fact-checking layer.

AI StrategyCross-functional DeliveryBlockchainStakeholder Management

ETH Dublin1st place

SafeTi - Rental Market Transparency

Blockchain-AI integration for rental market transparency. Built a system to bring verifiable data to rental transactions, reducing information asymmetry between landlords and tenants.

OperationsAI IntegrationBlockchainBusiness Development

ETH OxfordHonourable mention, BNB Chain track

BNB Shield - Real-Time AML Compliance

A decentralised system for real-time AML compliance, detecting politically exposed persons (PEPs) on-chain. Built to take screening - the exact work regulated institutions do by hand - and turn it into an automated, trustless layer.

AML / KYCComplianceBlockchainRisk Screening

Hello, I am Rob

Here is a little background

Co-Founder - BD & Operations

Co-Founder - BD & Operations

Business Implementation Analyst

Process Improvement Analyst

Operations Engineer

Skills

Tools

Proof I can do the work

Content research & drafting pipeline

Selected builds

Near Gravity - Misinformation Detection Platform

SafeTi - Rental Market Transparency

BNB Shield - Real-Time AML Compliance

I have got just what you need. Let's talk.