Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based CEO’ operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Peter Smith
CEO and Co-Founder of Blockchain.com
Peter Smith is a Co-Founder and CEO at Blockchain. He is also the Director, Board Member at UK Finance.
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About Blockchain.com, Blockchain.com Ventures: Blockchain.com is a platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency.
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Gilbert Verdian
CEO and Founder of Quant Network
Gilbert is building the Internet of Trust by converging Blockchain and Cybersecurity as the Founder and CEO of Quant Network, tasked with connecting the world’s networks to blockchains. Having over 20 years of industry experience and C-level accountability, he has worked across Government in Downing St, HM Treasury, Cabinet Office, Ministry of Justice and NSW Health and private sector at CSC, EY and HSBC. Having a keen interest in disruptive technology, he’s the author behind the Blockchain ISO Standard TC307 initiative and is the Chair of the UK’s national committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger technologies (DLT/1). He also sits on committees in the Federal Reserve, the EU’s Blockchain Observatory, PayUK’s Cybersecurity board and UK Government’s DLT committees. He’s actively working to advance technology in the areas of AI, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Fintech & Health.
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About International Organization for Standardization, Quant Network, Remitt, Trudera, Wekitt: We’re unleashing the power of networks as connected as the world we live in.
Kumar Gaurav
Founder and CEO of Cashaa
Kumar is the Founder & CEO of Cashaa, a UK based neo-bank providing businesses access to crucial banking infrastructure. Cashaa is a community of more than 250 crypto businesses including the industry leaders making it the biggest crypto-friendly banking platform. Kumar started his career as an engineer by building navigation systems for Ferrari before pivoting into the FinTech space in 2014 to begin working on blockchain-powered innovations. In recognition of his pioneering work on blockchain technology, he was awarded extraordinary (O-1) status by the United States government in 2017 and got listed among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Blockchain in 2016-2018 by Rise global. As a thought leader in the Fintech space, he has been invited to numerous global forums, including Money 2020, TechCrunch Disrupt, the European Parliament and Ivy League universities. In 2017, he was also nominated among the ‘World’s Top 50 Innovators from the industries of the future in the UK.
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About Cashaa: Next Generation Banking Platform
Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Joanna Hubbard
Co-Founder and CEO of Electron
Jo-Jo Hubbard is the co-founder and COO of Electron, one of the original energy tech firms to harness blockchain technology for transactive grid systems. She is a thought leader on the topic of digital energy and a frequent keynote speaker at energy and technology events. Her previous experience includes renewable energy investment banking, cleantech VC, and strategy consulting at McKinsey & Co. Jo-Jo sits on advisory boards for several UK utilities on digital transformation and community trading models and writes for international publications on these topics.
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About Electron: Electron is accelerating the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero by making granular, market-based interactions possible.
Marc Blinder
Co-Founder & CEO of Aikon
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About Aikon, Emmerge: Aikon provides API-based Blockchain as a Service for top public blockchains including EOS, Ethereum and Libra
Mark Hipperson
Founder and CEO of Ziglu
Mark has founded a UK retail bank and two financial technology businesses. He is a commentator and speaker on banking, FinTech, crypto, technology, PSD2 and open banking. Mark is the founder and CEO of Ziglu, the modern challenger. Previously, he founded Starling Bank where he was responsible for helping to secure the UK banking licence with regulators and obtaining the initial funding the Bank achieved in December 2015. He was also responsible for the design, build, implementation and support of the Bank’s IT platform, apps and infrastructure. He started his career at Barclays where he was Head of Technology.
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About Ziglu: Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
Nejc Kodric
Co-Founder & CEO of Bitstamp
Nejc Kodric Since starting out in 2011 with little more than some basic computer equipment, €1,000 and a love of technology, Nejc has been instrumental in developing Bitstamp into one of the most trusted and highest volume bitcoin exchanges in the world. With offices in Luxembourg, London and New York, Bitstamp continues to grow from strength to strength, serving its customers’ bitcoin trading requirements. Among his many achievements as chief executive officer, Nejc spearheaded the approach to become the first fully licensed virtual currency exchange in EU, which was granted in 2016, setting the benchmark for the Bitcoin industry’s continued consolidation and strength. With a keen interest in promoting economic empowerment and technology, Nejc has spoken at several conferences including Techcrunch, Bitcoin Foundation, MoneyConf, Deloitte Conference: Future Challenges, ICT Spring Europe and FundForum International, and was awarded Best Virtual Currency Start-up at The Europas in June 2014. Nejc was born in Slovenia, where he studied Organization and Management of Information Systems and Economics, and currently splits his time between his home country and Luxembourg. Specialities: Bitcoin, blockchain, trading, virtual currencies, economic empowerment, education, science and technology
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About Bitstamp: Bitstamp allows companies and individuals from all around the world to buy and sell bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, ripple, and bitcoin cash.
Laura Kornelija Inamedinova
Founder and CEO of LKI Consulting
Laura K. Inamedinova is communications and branding expert that has her own PR agency. Laura helps companies understand what are their marketing goals and what kind of communication they seek and later on, if needed, implement it. Her primary focus is technology, fin tech and IT industries. Among her client list there are million dollar valuation companies. Miss Inamedinova also shares her expertise about startups in her columns at Forbes and Huffington Post. Besides that, she frequently appears in local and international conferences where she touches important issues like, advocating for bigger women involvement in the technology sector. She has been quoted in various publications, such as Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, Venture Beat, etc. Laura has also been actively involved in various NGOs – she is a member of World Economic Forum Global Shapers Vilnius hub and Lithuanian Marketing Association. Laura holds a Bachelor of Physics from Vilnius University. During her time in the university she was a member of Physics faculty student association.
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About LKI Consulting: International marketing, PR and communications agency focusing on fintech, crypto and ICOs.
Inga Mullins
Founder & CEO of Fluency
Inga Mullins is a Founder & CEO at Fluency
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About Fluency: Fluency is a CBDC proprietary blockchain revolutionising and powering the existing financial system.
Hossein Kakavand
Founder and CEO of Luther Systems
Hossein is an entrepreneur with a diverse background in the enterprise technology industry. He did his Ph.D at Stanford in Information Systems and Statistics, and subsequently Stanford Business School. He was a fund manager at Soliton Capital, a quantitative hedge fund. He was at Funding Circle (LON: FCH), a leading Fintech platform focused on Peer to Peer (P2P) financing. He has also advised startups, with highly successful exits including, a distributed computation platform for automation of portfolio risk modelling, a specialized platform for large scale statistical computation, and a big data analytics recommendation engine.
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About Luther Systems: Luther Systems streamlines enterprise processes leveraging blockchain technology.
George McDonaugh
Co-Founder, CEO and Managing Director of KR1 plc
I’ve been involved in blockchain technology since 2011. Before then I was an advertising copywriter for London based agencies. I have a masters degree in Anthropology and a further degree in Creative Advertising. I helped form one of London’s most popular blockchain meetups and co-founded kr1 in early 2016 and as such it become the first token focussed investment company in the world. We have the longest track record in the space and a global network of funds, developers and investors.
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About KR1 plc: KR1 plc (KR1:AQSE) is Europe’s leading digital asset investment company focused on decentralised and open-source blockchain networks.
Jamie Burke
CEO & Founder of Outlier Ventures
Jamie Burke is the chief executive officer of Outlier Ventures.
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About Outlier Ventures: The World’s Leading Open Metaverse Accelerator
Vinay Gupta
CEO of Mattereum
Vinay Gupta is a technologist and policy analyst with a particular interest in how specific technologies can close or create new avenues for decision makers. This interest has taken him through cryptography, energy policy, defence, security, resilience and disaster management arenas. He is the founder of Hexayurt.Capital, a fund which invests in creating the Internet of Agreements™.Mattereum is the first Internet of Agreements infrastructure project, bringing legally-enforceable smart contracts, and enabling the sale, lease, and transfer of physical property and legal rights. He is known for his work on the hexayurt, a public domain disaster relief shelter designed to be build from commonly-available materials, and with Ethereum, a distributed network designed to handle smart contracts.
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About Mattereum: Mattereum is a provider of legally-enforceable smart contracts.
Itamar Lesuisse
Co-founder & CEO of Argent
Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent. Prior to Argent, Itamar founded and led Peak, the top ranked mobile cognitive training service with over 50,000,000 users and 500,000 subscribers. Itamar led Peak to a profitable 8 digit per year business. He successfully sold it to Lagardere SCA in 2016. Before Peak, Itamar worked at Boston Consulting Group, Amazon and VISA. He holds a Masters in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering.
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About Argent, Imperial College London: Argent is the most simple and secure smart wallet for crypto.
Dean Fankhauser
CEO, Co-Founder of Bitcompare
Dean Fankhauser is the CEO and Founder of Bitcompare.
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About Bitcompare, Nuji: Your crypto comparison site
Vytautas Karalevicius
CEO & Co-Founder of SpectroCoin
Serial fintech enterpreneur, founder of SpectroCoin (all in one solution for cryptocurrency) and Bankera (banking for the blockchain era) companies.
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About Bankera, SpectroCoin, UAB Pervesk: All in one solution for cryptocurrencies
Owen Hall
CEO of Heliocor
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About Heliocor, Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
Jessi Baker
Founder & CEO of Provenance
Jessi Baker is the founder of Provenance, building the future of supply chain transparency and product trust on the blockchain. She is an Art and Science hybrid, with Master’s degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and Design from the Royal College of Art. She has worked with brands on technology strategy across the US and Europe, including Adidas, The Four Seasons, The Guggenheim Museum, British Airways and Will.I.Am. She is an associate researcher at the Intel Institute for Sustainable Cities and a regular speaker on technology and social business.
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About Intel, Provenance: Provenance is the leading software solution for sustainability communications
Giacomo Bugini
CEO of BTCMiner Cloud EU
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About BTCMiner Cloud EU: BTCMiner is Bitcoin miner with fully automatic process
Alan Vey
CEO and Co-Founder of Aventus Network Systems
Alan is an entrepreneur in the blockchain industry and is currently focused on his role as co-founder and CEO of Aventus Network Services, a blockchain layer 2 network, reshaping digital assets including ticketing, loyalty and financial assets, to name a few. Before moving into Blockchain, Alan worked at Deloitte in the Entrepreneurial Business Department and macro hedge fund Brevan Howard. He completed a Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence at Imperial College London. His masters thesis investigated film rights distribution using blockchain in partnership with BAFTA. a
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About : Aventus is a layer-2 blockchain protocol that brings scalability, lower costs, and speed to Ethereum transactions.
Gael Itier
CIO, CEO and Co-Founder of Automata
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About Automata: Automata provides trading strategies for cryptocurrencies with a focus on risk management and capital protection.
Sam Enrico Williams
Founder & CEO of DocTailor
Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economy markets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.
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About Crypt2, DocTailor, LiveFor Class: DocTailor is a unique legal document platform.
Manu Choudhary
CEO of DMALINK
Tech Focused Entrepreneur, Venture Investor and Avid Visual Artist
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About DMALINK: DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
Jez San
CEO & founder of FunFair Technologies
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About FunFair Technologies, Ninja Theory: FunFair provides blockchain powered solutions to the online gaming industry.
Mustafa Al-Bassam
Co-Founder and CEO of LazyLedger
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About LazyLedger: LazyLedger is a blockchain distributed ledger.
David Rutter
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of R3
David founded R3 in 2015 and in his role of Chief Executive Officer is responsible for the strategic direction of R3. With over 30 years of experience leading some of Wall Street’s top institutions, David is a longtime creative thought leader in financial markets and innovation, and has played a significant role in the adoption of electronic trading in the global OTC derivatives industry. David served for ten years as the CEO of Electronic Broking at ICAP Plc, the world’s largest interdealer broker, where he led the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms. Prior to ICAP, David was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane.
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About R3: R3 is a financial innovation firm dedicated to the design and deployment of DLT to build the new operating system for financial services.
Aba Schubert
CEO of Dorae
Aba is an American entrepreneur and investor in the financial, technology and mining sectors. She co-founded Dorae, the blockchain-enabled global supply chain accountability system, and co-founded Aethel Partners, a multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services firm headquartered in London. Aba received a math degree from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
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About Aethel Partners, Dorae: Dorae is the physical trade cloud.
Adi Ben-Ari
Founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain
Adi has over 20 years of enterprise experience, working as a solution architect for blue chip companies and leading major deliveries of blockchain solutions is widely recognised in the industry. Adi is a noted speaker at major industry conferences, experienced in educating the C-suite on blockchain, and acts as an advisor for a number of early blockchain startups. His work has also been noted by the UK Government, where he was invited to represent the industry at the Blockchain Round Table at the House of Lords. Additionally, Adi has co-invented and designed a number of patents within the blockchain and mobile payments space. Adi holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA.
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About APPII, Applied Blockchain, Nuggets: Applied Blockchain builds private and secure business applications
James Smith
CEO & Co-Founder of Elliptic
James sets and communicates the strategy to lead Elliptic to success. James has a Computer Science PhD from the University of Oxford in Natural Language Processing, as well as a Computer Science MPhil and BA from the University of Cambridge.
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About Elliptic, Seedcamp: Elliptic makes cryptocurrency transaction activity more transparent and accountable.
David S. Wong
Chairman & CEO, Director of Midpoint
David is a London-based entrepreneur and investor in disruptive technologies and previously Managing Director of Expadis Capital. Prior to becoming an investor, he co-founded a publicly traded technology and media company. David has extensive experience in building, advising technology companies and helping businesses scale internationally. David started out as a client of Midpoint. He subsequently invested in the Company and joined the Board of Directors. David holds a BSc (Hons) in Engineering from the University of Liverpool and MA (Distinction) in Management from the University of Brighton.
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About Midpoint: Midpoint is a true peer-to-peer international payments platform for any businesses or individual wanting access to fair and transparent FX.
Simone Mazzuca
CEO and Founder of Wallex Bank & Statutory Trust
Simone Mazzuca is the CEO and Founder of Wallex Bank.
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About Wallex Bank & Statutory Trust: Assets and Digital Assets financial service provider.
Dave Hendricks
CEO and Co-Founder of Vertalo
Dave is the CEO and Founder of SeriesX.net, the operating platform for the startup ecosystem. Dave has extensive real-world experience founding and scaling technology companies – and living with the problems solved by SeriesX – as a former startup CFO, COO and President and has raised $80 million and managed the marketing, corporate governance, due diligence/legal, and auditing functions of startups for more than 20 years.
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About SeriesX, Vertalo: Vertalo is a SaaS solution connecting and enabling the digital asset economy.
Rushd Averroes
CEO, Founder of BABB
Rushd is founder and CEO of BABB, leading a diverse team of industry veterans to make his vision a reality. He is a financial inclusion specialist and has an MA from University of Greenwich in Microfinance and Financial Inclusion. Before that, he attended the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne and was awarded an IT Science Degree in 2006. Rushd has managed a highly successful Authorised Payment Institution (API) in the UK – Wowpaymobi.
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About BABB: BABB is a world bank for the micro-economy: a global marketplace for human innovation, financial autonomy and wealth creation.
Emmanuel Goh
CEO of skew
Emmanuel Goh is a co-founder and CEO of skew.
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About skew: skew is a platform that builds cutting-edge financial infrastructure for the digital assets space.
Eduardo Martínez Garcia
Chief Executive Officer of GoMadrid
Eduardo is Co-Founder of GENIAC. In addition, Eduardo is joint managing director of Olivo, a company focused on creating innovative businesses, with Michael Galvin. He is also a non-Executive Director of PetroCorner. Eduardo and Michael have worked together for many years since they met at Accenture and it is the challenges they faced in starting up businesses that led to the creation of GENIAC. The frustrations they experienced in managing the day-to-day essential business services such as contracts, accounts, compliance issues and insurance made them want to solve this issue with GENIAC. Earlier in his career, Eduardo spent many years in various senior positions at management consultancy, Accenture. He worked across multiple industries and in the UK, US, Spain, India, East Asia and Latin America giving him a truly global approach to business. Eduardo was born and educated in Madrid and holds an MBA from IE Business School and an MSc in IT Engineering with a major in Business Administration and Finance. He has lived in London for more than 10 years.
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About GoMadrid, Toqio: GoMadrid is a technological ecosystem and innovation hub focused on venture building projects in fintech and blockchain areas.
Ingemar Svensson
Founder & CEO of iXledger
Ingemar Svensson is the Co-Foundr and CTO at Payrue and Founder of Xledger. Ingemar was the CTO of Risk and Valuation at SunGard Asset Management. His experience ranges from managing large organisations to hands-on software development.
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About iXledger, PayRue: iXledger is a groundbreaking platform for insurance utilising blockchain technology.
Mihai Ivascu
CEO of Modex
Serial social impact and technology entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of London based tech group M3 Holdings which comprises 3 fast-growing companies: Moneymailme, a Neo-Banking technology infrastructure provider; M3 Payments – FX management and global payments platform; Modex Blockchain Database – SaaS technology provider, which in less than 4 years has come to be valued at GBP 250 million. Founder of Ingenium Group – the technology infrastructure and logistics provider for M3 Holdings, which employs 60 software developers, engineers and business executives in 4 offices around the world: London, Bucharest, Monaco, Gibraltar. During its 12 years of existence, the company has worked with over 200 clients. Mihai holds an MBA in Innovation Management and is currently enrolled in a Doctorate of Business Administration at INSEEC Group with a Thesis on Disruptive FinTech Technologies. Awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 and finalist of Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Mihai is an experienced speaker and entrepreneurship mentor. As an early-stage tech investor and result-driven executive, he holds positions in various tech startups and advisory Boards, managing to have a transformational role given his practical expertise. Over the years, Mihai graduated from various executive training programs from Harvard, MIT, Stanford University, and Silicon Valley Innovation Center. Passionate about chess, martial arts, and motorsports, the youngest member of the prestigious Monaco Impact is focused on tech applied in social impact projects that range from financial inclusion, charity, and shared value initiatives.
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About Modex, Moneymailme: We help organizations, businesses, and people to protect their digital data.
Adetunji Adegbesan
Founder/CEO of Gidi Mobile
Dr Adetunji Adegbesan is the Founder & CEO of Gidi Mobile, creators of gidimo, Africa’s leading curriculum mastery & learning-as-a-service platform. Tunji has a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering, and a PhD in Strategic Management from the IESE Business School. He is globally respected as one of Africa’s top scholars of competitive strategy, as well as one of her leading experts on the mobile telecommunications industry. A recipient of multiple awards, he has been invited to speak at knowledge events in more than 20 countries across four continents. Immediately prior to founding Gidi Mobile, he was Director of the Centre for Competitiveness & Strategy at the Lagos Business School (LBS), where he led sessions on Competitive Strategy, as well as on issues arising out of the intersection of Strategy, Technology, and Innovation. During his 14 years at LBS, his consulting experience spanned the software, telecommunications, banking, oil and gas, publishing, logistics, identity management and electronic payments sectors; while prior to LBS, his work experience spanned software development, consulting, information systems management, and electrical engineering, in both manufacturing and service sectors. Tunji is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Review, the world’s leading conceptual journal in the field of strategic management. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Businessday Newspapers (West Africa’s premier business periodical), and a peer reviewer for several of the world’s top strategy research journals. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division of the global Academy of Management, as well as a past Global Representative for Africa of the Division. He has also been a Representative-at-Large for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and a member of the Research and Strategic Planning Committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. He is a past Visiting Scholar & Associate Researcher at the Center for Globalisation and Strategy at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. An amateur historian, philosopher, and student of culture and geo-political affairs, Tunji has native fluency in English and Spanish, and basic literacy in French, Yoruba and Catalan.
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About Gidi Mobile: Gidi Mobile is the creator of gidimo, the developing world’s leading personal mastery & learning-for-opportunity platform
Irra Ariella Khi
Co-Founder & CEO of Zamna
Irra Ariella Khi is a serial entrepreneur based in London, who is obsessed with cyber security and data privacy. She is the co-founder and CEO of VChain, a deep tech company that is developing and patenting a blockchain solution for Digital DNA, to identify each person online and reinvent verification, privacy and trust. Irra speaks 9 languages, and graduated from Oxford University with 1st Class Honours. She is a speaker and mentor at General Assembly, StartUpBootcamp and Oxford
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About Zamna: Award-winning blockchain-powered data verification platform improving airport security while delivering a seamless passenger experience
marco muccini
Group CEO of Topos Network
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About Papermine, Topos Network: The Borderless Bank of Migrants
Jack Cohen
CEO of Massless
Jack Cohen is the CEO of Massless
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About Massless: Massless is your NFT launch partner: Artwork, Minting, and Smart Contracts
Rajesh Parmar
Co-Founder & Group CEO of Cloud Africa
Rajesh is the co-founder of Cloud Africa Ltd. He brings a wealth of hands on experience having previously worked for Reuters and Investis in London for 10 years (Investis the leading corporate communications and investor relations company in the UK for web and mobile services providing online innovations to the London Stock Exchange which works for over 70% of the FTSE 100 companies) before moving to Barcelona to head up business development for NFC and beacon technology company Futurlink, a startup backed by La Caixa, the second largest bank in Spain. Under his guidance Cloud Africa has built up a very strong market reputation in Africa. A mobile and technology visionary and one of the early movers into the African region where he commands great respect from his peers in Africa and innovators looking to enter the market. He brings credibility and most importantly trust and gravitas both at the highest level in the African continent and with vendors and partners across the globe looking to successfully deploy products and services in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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About Cloud Africa: Remittances to Africa.
Sean Kiernan
CEO of Greengage
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About Greengage:
Greengage aspires to be a digital merchant bank that provides a platform of relationship-based banking services to digital companies, SMEs, and HNWIs to the highest ethical, secure and compliance standards.
Bridging traditional financial services and digital innovations in cryptoassets and blockchain, we provide access to the benefits of digitisation in finance. Our tailored services are delivered by people, empowered by technology.
We offer:
- E-money solutions to facilitate £, € and imminently $ payments and cards (coming soon)
- Wholesale crypto into fiat loans
- Bespoke Salesforce-based solutions for financial services firms
- Access to other third-party services and providers
As part of its mission to be the best in class, Greengage aims to obtain a full banking licence and add crypto-native solutions and additional technological solutions.
*E-money solutions are provided as an agent of Modulr FS Limited, Greengage is not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The Financial Ombudsman Service or the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) do not apply to the cryptoasset activities carried on by Greengage.
Andersen Cheng
CEO of Post-Quantum
Andersen Cheng has considerable experience in venture investing, incubation and consulting, achieving significant growth and exits for several high-tech companies including L3-TRL. He was the COO of the Carlyle Group’s European venture fund and a founding member of LabMorgan, the e-finance unit of JP Morgan. He has been involved in the spinoff and incubation of a number of trading and transaction system ventures. Prior to that, he was JP Morgan’s European Head of Credit Risk Management and was involved in many system implementation and risk management projects connected to credit risk, swap transactions, EMU and Y2K. Andersen holds a BSc in Civil Engineering and an MSc in Management Science from Imperial College. He then qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte & Touche, specialising in computer security and data interrogation.
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About Post-Quantum: Post-Quantum is a world-leader in quantum-safe encryption, blockchain and digital identity
Gabriele Muse
Co-founder & CEO of Coinrule
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About Coinrule: Coinrule Catches the Next Market Opportunity on Your Behalf by Automating Your Investments
Alex Batlin
Founder and CEO of Trustology
Alex Batlin, Trustology’s Founder and CEO, is an entrepreneur with extensive banking and blockchain experience. Previously, at BNY Mellon, Alex was Blockchain Lead and founding head of Emerging Business & Technology team. At UBS, Alex was founding head of a blockchain-focused FinTech Innovation Lab in UK’s Level 39 accelerator. Alex co-founded Utility Settlement Coin, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Trusted IoT consortias, and was featured in the 2015 FinTech Finance 35 and 2016 FinTech 40 lists.
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About Trustology: Trustology is building a custody platform to safeguard your crypto assets.
Tim Horlick
Chief Executive Officer of Sensify
Tim qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse & Co. in London and then spent 14 years in investment banking as a Director of Kleinwort Benson Limited and Chief Operating Officer of European Investment Banking for Salomon Brothers International. He holds a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Over the last 15 years Tim has played an important role in technology venture capital, having set up and managed a venture capital business focused on enabling technologies for the mobile internet including 802.11 technologies, telco mediation software and RFID software and hardware solutions. The move to Bitcoin and Blockchain technology was a natural progression into Fintech, the next frontier of innovation. He was an early believer in the potential of Bitcoins to both appreciate in value, and to shake up the financial and technology sector.
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About Bitcoin Global Capital™, Sensify: Sensify provides IoT solutions designed to remotely track, monitor, trace, control, manage, verify, and secure fixed and mobile assets.
Amit Joshi
CEO of HashPrix
An alumni of SDA Bocconi, University of Michigan, Amit is an MBA & B. Tech graduate with 10 years of work experience in business strategy and product management. He has been in the blockchain space for 4+ years and has worked upon implementation of blockchain in healthcare, payments, logistics, aerospace, crypto exchanges/funds, asset tokenization, etc. Currently working on healthcare, DeFi and asset tokenization projects. Feel free to connect to explore synergies in blockchain, crypto, asset tokenization and investment management
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About BlueOrion, HashPrix: Hashprix provides implementation of crypto and blockchain in healthcare, asset tokenization, supply chain, DeFi, and sustainability.
David Nunn
Founder & CEO of Rvvup
David Nunn is the founder and CEO of Rvvup.
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About Rvvup: Bridging the 3 Generations of Payments
Nick Lukic
CEO & Co-Founder of Digital Vega
Nick has 20+ years in FX, derivatives, ecommerce, technology and consulting. Nick was a founding member of Atriax, the first FX ECN where he was responsible for product development and bank relationships. He went on to form worldflow, an e-commerce specialist software and consulting firm where he worked on setting up new ecommerce businesses for banks including several FX and retail CFD businesses. Nick was global head of FX and Interest Rate Derivatives technology at Chemical/Chase Manhattan Bank where he ran the quant analytics and risk management teams. He was also global head of FX and FX options IT at Citibank where he helped start the Citi FX e-commerce business.
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About Digital Vega: Digital Vega is a privately held company operating the Medusa FX Option trading platform.
Robert Sams
Founder & CEO of clearmatics
Robert Sams Founded Clearmatics Technologies. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About clearmatics: Designing protocols and build platforms for decentralised Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI).
Xavier Murtza
Co-Founder & CEO of Bitcoinus
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About Bitcoinus: Bitcoinus provided crypto payments solution for all e-commerce platforms and e-shops.
Alexander Malin
CEO of Forty Seven
Founder of Forty Seven
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About Forty Seven: Forty Seven is a software consulting and development company providing IT outsourcing services.
Saurabh Goyal
Founder and CEO of Satoshi Systems Limited
Saurabh, our Chief Product Strategist, has 15 years of experience in conceptualizing, designing and developing trading systems. One of the earliest bitcoin & blockchain backer, Saurabh is passionate about emerging technologies such as Blockchain, IoT and AI for the fintech industry. He spends most of his free time with his boys (aged 5 and 8) teaching them chess and programming.
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About Satoshi Systems Limited: Satoshi Systems provides state of the art software solutions for the trading space, currently focusing on the commodity.
Benjamin Gedeon
CEO and Founder of MatchPlace Limited
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About MatchPlace Limited: New generation Fintech platform. Integrating Financial Services solutions, bridging the gap between Financial Institutions and SMEs
Marsel Adawi
CEO of OptionRoom
Experienced Data Management Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in PHP, Linux System Administration, jQuery, Public Speaking, and Management. Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor’s Degree focused in Computer Science from Birzeit University.
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About CYKEEP Ltd., OptionRoom: OptionRoom is a polkadot-based user-controlled oracle and forecasting protocol.
Conor Svensson
Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs
Founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, a blockchain technology company. We work with large companies to simplify their complex business processes and differentiate them from their competitors by harnessing the new trust and transparency models that blockchain provides for both data and assets. We’ve worked with Microsoft, J.P. Morgan, ConsenSys and R3. Our blockchain software library Web3j has been downloaded nearly 1 million times. We were a runner up in Microsoft’s Partner of the year awards this year and I hold key roles in multiple industry organisations. We run programs to ensure businesses succeed with their blockchain deployments. Our ultimate goal is to deliver solutions that reduce the environmental footprint of businesses, as we believe blockchain can play a crucial role here.
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About Web3 Labs: Web3 Labs provides the full-stack development and intelligence platform for companies to work with blockchain at speed and scale.
Helen Disney
CEO and Founder of Unblocked Events
Helen Disney is the CEO and Founder of Unblocked, a hub for Blockchain events, education and information. She was listed in Innovate Finance’s 2016 Women in Fintech Powerlist and has been referred to by Barclays as a “Blockchain guru”. She is co-chair of the British Blockchain Association’s committee for Policy, Governance and Public Good, sits on the Advisory Board of the Distributed Ledger Foundation, and is also a member of techUK’s DLT working group. In March, she gave evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain and she was recently listed in BCB Engage’s Women to Watch in Crypto and Blockchain. Unblocked Events makes Blockchain technology accessible for a non-technical audience, allowing business leaders, philanthropists, investors and those in public life to harness the potential of Distributed systems and understand the emerging trends surrounding Blockchain. Previously, Helen set up Blockchain Intelligence, a global platform for news, networking and conferences about Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers and worked on outreach at the Bitcoin Foundation, leading/organising a programme of strategic events to communicate the innovative potential of Bitcoin and Blockchain technology to innovators, entrepreneurs, policymakers and thought leaders. Bitcoin2014, held in Amsterdam was the first major flagship 3-day event to launch the concept of cryptocurrency into the mainstream of European debate.
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About Unblocked Events: Unblocked Events makes blockchain technology accessible for a non-technical business audience.
Michael Messele
CEO of Pillar Project
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About Pillar Project, Pillar Project: Platform to contextually manage your identity and transact with the services of the emerging web3 digital economy.
Josh Graham
CEO of EHAB
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About EHAB: Our weather intelligence platform helps construction companies identify, avoid, mitgate and transfer weather risk.
Dario Scarcella
CEO & Co-Founder of Capexmove
Extensive knowledge in Debt Capital Markets and Fixed-Income Securities. Leads the company’s business strategy.
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About Capexmove: Capexmove is a platform to draft and digitise debt financing documents.
Adam Wilson
CEO of Splash Technologies
After 8 years in the industry at the likes of 888 & Initial Rewards, in 2015 Adam co-founded Bookee, the award winning sports betting app. Adam has a passion for product and spends most of his life with his eyes glued to his phone.
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About Bookee, Splash Technologies: Splash brings cryptocurrency into everyday life, for everyday transactions, for everyone.
Laura Degiovanni
CEO and Founder of TiiQu
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About TiiQu: TiiQu is a trust mechanism derived by immutable verifiable sources about one’s ID, Work, Knowledge, Performances
Liliana Reasor
CEO, Founder of SupraFin
Liliana is the founder & CEO of SupraFin. SupraFin provides an intelligent app with institutional-like investment algorithms that assess the relative value of hundreds of cryptocurrencies and recommend the most appropriate as part of a diversified portfolio based on the client’s risk profile preferences.
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About SupraFin:
The SupraFin app offers many benefits:
- Simplicity: create a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies at the click of a button.
- Smart: create and manage a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies by leveraging risk models in the background.
- Safe: store your cryptocurrencies securely.
- Exclusive cryptocurrency reports: access exclusive crypto investment reports on each cryptocurrency on your portfolio.
Areseny Zarechnev
Co-Founder & CEO of Mothership
Arseny Zarechnev Prior to founding Mothership, Arseny co-founded Sabaka, a DevOps, mobile and web consultancy. He is a full stack developer, entrepreneur and solution architect and has worked at leading technology companies including Atlassian, Enki, and Ostrovok. He is a digital nomad, Estonian e-Resident and remote advocate. Arseny studied Business Administration at the Russian University of Economics.
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About Mothership: Mothership A state-of-the-art digital asset exchange, EU token marketplace and wallet with powerful security features.
Mantas Malukas
Founder & CEO of Dapp Life
Mantas Malukas is an entrepreneur, journalist & blogger. As an entrepreneur his main focus is in the development of high level concepts mainly in the editorial news projects and journalism.
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About Dapp Life: Dapp Life is an online platform that features cryptocurrency news, crypto app reviews and incisive commentary on blockchain and dApps.
Abhimanyu Dayal
CEO of EstateChain
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About EstateChain: EstateChain a global real estate platform built on the blockchain.
Stephen Pomfret
CEO of Cygnetise
Steve founded the award-winning Cygnetise in 2016 after identifying the considerable risks and inefficiencies that traditional manual and paper-based signatory registers posed to financial institutions and other companies.
Previously, he worked in operational change within large banks and brokers, including Credit Suisse, UBS, Instinet and Deutsche Bank. Acting as an internal consultant, Steve would troubleshoot to improve efficiency and minimise risk in areas including emerging markets, investment banking, custody, fund administration, wealth management, trade finance and corporate banking.
As well as the UK, he has spent time working in the US, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Russia. As CEO of Cygnetise, he has delivered a fast-growing commercial Blockchain application which is used across multiple industry sectors around the world and was one of the first uses of Blockchain outside of cryptocurrencies. He has a BEng (honours) in Civil Engineering.
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About Covolution, Cygnetise: Authorised Signatory Management on the Blockchain
Rhomaios Ram
CEO of Fnality International
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About Fnality International: Fnality International provides a digital cash system that uses blockchain technology to settle financial transactions.
Roisin Meehan
CEO and Founder of Verifoxx
Róisín Meehan is the CEO and Founder of Verifoxx.
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About Verifoxx: Verifoxx is an AIoT blockchain company that enables easy and secure identity verification of customers.
Marcus Ralphs
CEO of ByzGen
Before founding ByzGen Marcus served in the British Army. In addition to taking part in several high-tempo combat commands, Marcus held posts in Financial and Military Capability and Defence Policy, working at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and British Army headquarters. Marcus’ fascination with technology was first sparked by the challenges facing the defence and security sectors when it comes to managing and assuring sensitive data to inform complex and time-sensitive decisions. In addition to running the business, Marcus heads up the development of ByzGen’s academic and commercial partnerships
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About ByzGen: ByzGen is the first blockchain company.
Dinis Guarda
CEO and Founder of Ztudium
Dinis Guarda, author, CEO, and founder of the companies ztudium, techabc, and open business council platform. Dinis Guarda is also the founding member of the Ubuntu Tribe utribe.one impact platform that is creating access to basic financial services & wealth creation opportunities to solve global poverty trap. Dinis Guarda has a Master’s degree in new media. Dinis Guarda is an author, writer, artist, academic, B2B2C tech influencer, inventor and serial entrepreneur. Dinis is a world-renowned thought leader, strategist, futurist and speaker, an International Bestselling Author, and a media personality who covers the pressent and future of business, technology and society. Dinis is a World Class Leader in multiple fields and has a passsion to push ideas, action and technology together to create better solutions, narratives and paths. Dinis Guarda specialises in the crossroad between strategy, ideas, business, poetry, technology and how 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain are changing Humanity. Dinis Guarda has decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation. Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies. Dinis Guarda has created various companies such as ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, openbusinesscouncil.org, fashionabc.org, hedgethink.com, and tradersdna.com. Dinis has been working with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, Davos WEF, Philips, Saxo Bank, Mastercard, Barclays and governments all over the world. Dinis Guarda has been a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he has been coordinating executive Masters and MBAs. Dinis Guarda is ranked as one of the most influential people in Blockchain in the world by Right Relevance as well as being listed in Cointelegraph’s Top People In Blockchain in 2019 and Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100. He is also listed on multiple lists on global top leaders on Fintech, digital transformation and Technology at large. Dinis Guarda has been collaborating with multiple governments and global leading companies and organisations. An example is the collaboration with the newly-appointed Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) chairman Datuk Rais Hussin collaborating in the concept of Malaysia 5.0 as a new narrative for the country. “MDEC will no doubt play a leading role in introducing emerging technologies which are essential tools in the new Malaysia 5.0 digital economy. If such a policy is missing from our national strategy, Malaysia will be left behind and excluded from digital ecosystems and workforces,” Rais said in his inaugural statement. Touting his personal passion for digital transformation, he referred to the book 4IR: Reinventing a Nation which was co-authored with blockchain / AI / Fintech expert Dinis Guarda and launched in October last year, is meant to be a blueprint of sorts to assist governments of developing nations in their digital transformation agenda. More here https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/06/16/new-mdec-chief-pushes-for-malaysia-5.0-concept/1875908
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About Gozoa, Ztudium: ztudium is maker of the industry 4.0 technologies for the future present: blockchain, AI and digital transformation solutions
Oner Avara
CEO & Founder of My Next Match
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About My Next Match: The ultimate tool for the sports federations to govern, including Medical Passports for the athletes, an MMS and online progression/grading
Peter Chadha
CEO of DPI Partners
Peter started his career as a scientist doing a PHD at University College London, developing computerised targeting of drugs to get through the Blood-Brain-Barrier. But he found his true passion was IT, and he worked as techie and project manager for IT firms like Apple before becoming a management consultant and CTO. For more than 20 years now, Peter has been helping companies develop their technology prowess by improving their strategy and operations. He has worked extensively in online leisure sector companies like Playtech, Party Gaming and the Racing Post. More recently, Peter has focussed on the Blockchain, the technology that underlies bitcoin.He is an founder member of the Oxford Blockchain Foundation and is involved advising a number of blockchain businesses.
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About DPI Partners: DPI Partners is a blockchain & IT consultancy that advice on aspects of IT, blockchain strategy, AI, smart contracts and distributed apps.
Petko Karamotchev
CEO of INDUSTRIA Technology
One of the founders of the enterprise blockchain/DLT consultancy and development company INDUSTRIA.tech, Petko Karamotchev has 20 years of experience in the financial services and the enterprise IT. Holds degrees from University of Portsmouth, UK and Cotrugli Business School, Croatia. Free market advocate and part-time social theorist.
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About : INDUSTRIA creates enterprise blockchain, confidential computing, process automation, and digital experience solutions.
Kenan Güler
Co-Founder & CEO of Chain & Chain Technologies
With more than 25 years of experience in international trade, Kenan is now sharing his know-how on blockchain technology. Kenan is an A Level Customs Consultant and also a Member of Institute of Export. He is currently a CITA (Certified International Trade Adviser) and a Ph.D. Candidate, studying on “Impacts of Industry 4.o on Trade in Services”. Kenan has been contributing to number of ERP and RPA solutions on the software architecture side. Kenan is a true entrepreneur with experience and he successfully started up number of companies, which all are still active today.
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About Chain & Chain Technologies: Chain & Chain Technologies provides solution to solve international supply chain pain points through BTD, Blockchain Trade Digitization.
Andreas Tsindos
CEO of MWAN Mobile Ltd
Blockchain Practice Head Andreas is a Fintech, telecommunication, and Blockchain professional with over 20 years of experience. Andreas has worked for large multinational companies such as Vodafone, News Corporation International, and Siemens Communications. In the last 3 years, he has been involved in and developed solutions on top of the Decentralised Blockchain protocols. He has also spoke at several industry events to date.
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About Arkratos Blockchain Solutions Pte. Ltd., MWAN Mobile Ltd: A Digital and Mobile Technology provider of Blockchain, Mobile Payments, Fintech and Enterprise services delivering solutions to your needs
Justyna Nowicka
CEO of ASPIRE
Straight forward, direct, committed, hard working and inspirational entrepreneur.
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About ASPIRE: Inventing non-bias recruitment via #blockchain, globally. Changing the world of recruitment forever.
Edouard Lavidalle
Co-founder & CEO of Stakin
Edouard Lavidalle is assionate about blockchain and Fintech. He believes in Proof-of-Stake as the most efficient public blockchain consensus mechanism. Edouard has been building blockchain projects for the past 4 years, co-founded Trakx, a Consensys backed startup, and operates PoS nodes since 2018.
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About Stakin: Stakin is an infrastructure operator for Proof-of-Stake (PoS) public blockchains networks.
