About DJYTL Capital

Wilkins decides where DJYTL Capital’s capital goes. Just as importantly, he decides where it does not.

He has spent more than fifteen years in investment and finance. He began on Wall Street, where he learned how large pools of money are actually moved and what the people moving them are really measuring. He left for private equity, closer to the operating reality of the businesses themselves — and then left that too.

What drew him away was physical trade. Over the years since, he has worked across Latin America, Africa and the Middle East: the markets where a commodity deal is never just a spread on a screen. It is a counterparty you have met, a jurisdiction whose rules you understand, a shipment with a route, and a financing structure that has to survive contact with all three. That work is slower than a trading floor and considerably less forgiving, and it is where he built the judgment he now applies here.

He runs DJYTL Capital’s international investment desk. Every commodity project the firm backs, every trade contract it finances and every position it underwrites passes across that desk. He sets the terms on which the firm takes risk, and he is the one who closes the deals that follow — which means he also owns the decisions that go the other way, the ones where the answer is no.

It is a deliberately concentrated role. Capital allocation by committee tends to produce the average of everyone’s caution. Ours has a name attached to it.

Gerald did not join DJYTL Capital as an employee. He joined as an investor.

Commodities and international trade had interested him for years — the physical side of the world economy, the part that moves in ships and warehouses rather than headlines. He started with one of our early offerings, at a size he was comfortable with. Then he came back and invested again, and again after that.

What changed the relationship was a question he brought to us. He wanted to know how to bring this to his own community — not the returns, the access. He had watched the same pattern his whole life: commodities, trade finance and now tokenization treated as subjects you need an introduction to understand, while the people around him were never offered the introduction. The information existed. It simply never travelled the last mile.

So he set about building that last mile himself. Working with us, Gerald designed and launched a community education programme for historically underserved communities — sessions that start from what a commodity actually is and work up to how a tokenized lot is held, priced and redeemed. No jargon as a gatekeeping device, and no pretence that any of it is risk-free.

The programme worked better than either side expected, and it made little sense to keep treating it as a side project. Gerald now runs it as Director of Community Investments.

His work is, in practice, translation. On one side: commodity finance, international trade financing, blockchain settlement and real-world asset tokenization. On the other: people with every right to participate who have rarely been shown how any of it works. Gerald stands between the two and makes each intelligible to the other.