Robert Bench is the Founder and CEO of Radius.

Before founding Radius, Bob was an Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he founded Project Hamilton, an open-source central bank digital currency effort with MIT resulting in two open-source code bases, OpenCBDC and ParSec, as well as launching later additional related research efforts in the Federal Reserve System.

Prior to the FRS, Bob was the Deputy General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Head of Policy for Circle. At Circle, Bob created the regulatory and compliance design for USDC - the first mass market regulated stablecoin and founded the Blockchain Association.

Bob earned a JD from Northeastern University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science from Boston College. He is currently a Research Advisor at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative.