About

Summary Vision-driven technology executive and entrepreneur with proven leadership in emerging fintech, AI-native audit control frameworks, and institutional digital asset infrastructure. Adept at guiding early-stage ventures through product strategy, enterprise positioning, and operational maturity in regulated financial services and blockchain ecosystems. Recognized for unifying cutting-edge technologies with compliance-ready audit capability to scale mission-critical solutions for enterprises and financial institutions.

Skills

  • Strategic partnerships
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  • go-to-market planning
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  • Cloud-native architectures
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  • AI/ML integration
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  • Digital
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  • Enterprise SaaS
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  • compliance automation
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  • Innovation Strategy
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  • Brand & Engagement
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  • English language
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Experience

Clement Utuk

Work experience
  • Kednus Corporation — Seattle / Redmond, WA
  • 2025–Present
  • Lead strategy, operations, and growth of a cloud-native, AI-powered audit control and compliance platform for institutional digital assets. Kednus delivers real-time enterprise-grade financial and transaction data management, reconciling blockchain and off-chain sources into unified audit-ready statements for compliance, regulatory, and governance use cases.
  • Key Achievements & Responsibilities
  • Spearheaded vision and product direction for an AI-native audit compliance framework targeting financial institutions, asset managers, and regulated enterprises.
  • Architected go-to-market strategy positioning Kednus as the institutional data layer for digital assets with automated compliance, security, and reporting capabilities.
  • Built cross-functional founding leadership, extending beyond core engineering to compliance, security, and business development teams, securing strategic partnerships and pilot engagements.
  • Advanced enterprise readiness with SOC 2 Type II security posture, high availability infrastructure, and scalable audit-grade data flows.
  • Engaged with regulators, sovereign wealth funds, auditing firms, and ecosystem consortia to elevate adoption of automated compliance frameworks in digital asset settings.
  • Defined product differentiation around automated reconciliation, AI-assisted control validation, and seamless ERP/data stack integration.
  • CORE COMPETENCIES
  • Strategic Leadership & Vision: Set and executed long-range strategy for technological differentiation and enterprise adoption in distributed ledger and regulatory compliance markets.
  • Product & Technology Strategy: Led AI-driven platform definition for audit automation, actionable controls, and standardized financial reporting across tokenized ecosystems.
  • Compliance & Risk Management: Directed compliance framework alignment with AML/KYC, GAAP/IFRS, and audit-ready data governance.
  • Ecosystem & Market Engagement: Networked with enterprise partners, regulators, auditors, and institutional stakeholders to drive early adoption and market credibility.
  • Team Building & Organizational Development: Recruited technical and domain experts in cloud, security, compliance, and fintech operations.
  • SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • Enterprise-Readiness: Oversaw platform delivery with 99.9% SLA reliability and compliance tooling targeted at complex audit cycles.
  • Market Penetration: Established limited pilot programs with strategic institutions and ecosystem partners.
  • Innovation Leadership: Positioned Kednus as a pioneering provider of unified transaction reporting and audit control framework tailored to digital assets.

Clement Utuk

Education
  • October, 2023 - November, 2024
  • Fulltime
  • Leadership & Innovation
  • Management of Technology: Strategy and Portfolio Analysis
  • Cloud & DevOps: Continuous Transformation
  • Management of Technology: Roadmapping & Development
  • Machine Learning: From Data to Decisions

Clement Utuk

Education
  • The General Management Program provides a highly integrated, multidisciplinary view of strategy, leadership, and the organization. Blending practical business knowledge with personalized learning, 360-degree leadership and personal assessments, as well as individual projects, the program engages you in a dynamic exchange with the HBS faculty, a professional HBS Executive Coach, and a diverse group of senior executives from around the world.

Clement Utuk

Education
  • Artificial Intelligence - Implications for Business Strategy Program

Clement Utuk

Education
  • Civil Engineering

Clement Utuk

Education
  • Management & Finance

Clement Utuk

Education
  • September, 2004 - September, 2006
  • Fulltime
  • Mechanical Engineering