Our Team.

The main source of ideas and vision regarding the company’s strategic orientation. He possesses many years of experience directing companies in the financial and credit services sector, as well as international consulting firms. He has degrees in banking and economics and has 15 years of entrepreneurial expertise with all the ups and downs.

10 years of previous corporate experience in opening and scaling markets in Eastern Europe, MENA and Asia, Partner at Meta Change Capital, serial entrepreneur, Co-founder aeternity Blockchain, Founder aeternity Ventures, advisor to the EU Commission Blockchain Partnership initiative, and the Republic of Bulgaria.

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In 20 years of banking experience, he has accompanied IPOs and capital increases in total of 28 transactions in a leading syndicate position. He has been a member of the stock exchange council and a member of the market committee of a stock exchange in Germany. He is an active art and real estate investor.

A business engineer with over 30 years of experience in marketing and branding, strategically supporting many well-known national and international brands. Former CEO and Partner of BBDO, Founder of a broadcasting station and currently Brand Consultant and Deputy Chairman of the supervisory board of a financial consulting firm and Investor.

A communication expert with over 25 years of experience in building and supporting leading brands. Former BBDO Partner, skilled in marketing management, branding, advertising, integrated marketing, strategic planning, organization, and business development. Passionate entrepreneur with his own agency working primarily as a Brand Consultant.

Stephan is the founder and CEO of Quantumrock. His background consists of continuously building successful FinTech enterprises. Stefan's insights and understanding of high technology have led him to start and run many technology orientated financial companies like Crossgate AG, Masterpayment AG, Traxpay AG and Quantumrock. His continuous focus on long term leadership and management development gives the experience needed to start, build and scale companies where applied science and bring paradigm shifts in benefits.

Marco has over 40 years of experience delivering solutions to optimize and enhance both top-line and bottom-line results for businesses and projects across most major sectors and major geographies. Deep Technical, Operational and Financial skills allowing for the swift assessment of both the applicability and feasibility of existing and new technologies to business opportunities.

He is the CEO of Consensus Capital, and members of the corporate management at Adecco and Capgemini. He has over 15 years of experience in digital innovation and IT management. With a degree in Industrial Management from Helsinki Technical School, Matti boasts a wealth of experience on the technical side as well as in relationship management and business development.

She is an entrepreneur who has taken 10+ years of entrepreneur management expertise spanning multiple states and jurisdictions to support and consult various entities. Monique assisted various investment funds by performing market research, networking/strategic relations and other due diligence on projects to fit scope of investments.

He is co-founder, COO and Chairman at Private Alpha and is responsible for operational management and portfolio management. Christoph was Executive Director and Country Head Austria at Bank Julius Baer. He was CCO at the start and development of CreditGate24. Prior to that, he gained professional experience in private and investment banking at Credit Suisse. He studied International Management at ZHAW and holds an Executive MBA in Digital Leadership from the University of Strathclyde.

After finishing university as an economist Rudi worked for various financial companies such as FEC Financial Engineering GmbH, Hinduja Bank and Kepler Cheuvreux. He founded a RH Capital Investments GmbH specialized in brokering, consulting and selling of structured and bespoke investment products for institutional clients.

advises professional investors on structured derivative-, plain vanilla- and alternative investment ideas and products (Venture Capital & Private Equity).

Michelle is an experienced project manager and marketing coordinator. With a background in the film and music industry, as well as finance, her work experience in Los Angeles includes international content marketing, talent management and freelance work in music and video production. She has also lived and worked in Paris, Sydney, and Prague.

Highly experienced and qualified senior banking executive with a 30+ year international performance history in Corporate and Private Banking as well as Business Governance.

Worked in several national and international locations including Frankfurt, Bremen, Ho-Chi-Minh-City (Saigon), Geneva, Bahrain, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi (UAE).

15+ years of experience as COO / CoS and board member in start-up and corporate environments. Scaling, process, and efficiency specialist. Experienced leader with armed forces background.

Industrial expert with an MBA in General Management and Entrepreneurial Mindset. Various Director positions in R&D, Innovation Management, Product Management and Sales for industrial SMEs and Corporates in China, USA and DACH. Special focus on create and implement operational excellence strategies and successfully manage change process. Strong enabler of Innovation.

He is founder and management partner of ameleo PartG mbB and has worked as a lawyer in the field of international business, corporate and insolvency law for over twenty-eight years. He also served as managing director or liquidator in several countries in Europe, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and the USA. Finally, he was appointed as special insolvency administrator by German insolvency courts in various corporate insolvencies.

She has been an assistant for 20 years and worked in various international companies. Yasemin is an allrounder who likes to work in the background but is still involved in all topics.

Adel Elmessiry is a Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Blockchain. He is a serial technology entrepreneur with over 26 years of experience in the industry, having taken 3 successful companies from inception to acquisition. Adel is currently the Co-Founder and President at AlphaFin, where he is using blockchain and AI to positively disrupt the fintech ecosystem and empower the global economy. He is also a keynote speaker on blockchain and NFTs, and holds several technology patents, including a music NFT platform, NFT gaming platform, blockchain legal CRM, and a social impact platform that uses blockchain transparency for non-profit contributions. Adel is also a supervisor at the American University in Cairo and a member of the ICBC 2022 technical committee. He is excited to play a leadership role in the future of blockchain and Fintech.

With the family background of a traditional medium-sized family business he studied business administration and philosophy, followed by an PhD degree in economics and foreign and security policy.  Spending his business live in the financial industry, he possesses 18 years of experience e.g. as Member of the Management Board in a large banking institution as well as Group Treasurer of a leading industrial corporation. Following his responsibilities in these large, globally active institutions, including various Supervisory Board mandates, he also gained 20 years entrepreneurial experiences in founding and developing quantitative based financial companies, with all the ups and downs.

She is founder and owner of von Albertini Compliance Services, a modern consulting boutique specialized in legal, compliance and risk management consulting and outsourcing solutions.

Prior to them she held various positions in the area of Legal & Compliance, including Head Legal and Compliance at a bank, before that at a law firm in Zurich, as well as Legal Counsel on the board of directors of large financial institutions in Switzerland (UBS Global Asset Management, Julius Bär and LGT). She has 22 years of professional experience in banking and asset management (Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany), has successfully implemented numerous national and international projects and advises financial institutions as well as corporations, SMEs, start-ups, FinTechs and private individuals.

Lamara graduated with honours in law from the University of Kyiv, where she also completed her doctorate in law. She also holds a CAS in International Organizations from the University of Zurich. From 1998-2002 she was a lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximillians-University in Munich. Lamara von Albertini also has professional experience as a board member in banks and companies. Ms Lamara von Albertini speaks German, English, Russian and Ukrainian.

Mark is a multi-disciplinary ‘hands-on’ practitioner with 30 years’ experience in business model transformation & supply chain excellence.      

Mark’s experience spans across several sectors including: high tech; property tech / smart building; health tech; Web 3.0 / blockchain, factory automation; value chain consulting.        

He has passion for innovation, sustainability, mentorship, and holistic solutions thinking.  Based now in Switzerland, Mark has setup / managed global services companies in Canada, Taiwan, Singapore, Switzerland, Malaysia and Mexico.

Anthony Mills is a globally sought-after thought leader and business influencer - with deep expertise in all things innovation. He has been independently recognized by numerous sources as a global authority in management, future of work, strategic innovation, open innovation, and design thinking. Having worked extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Anthony's work has had a profound and lasting impact on organizations all over the world. Anthony is the author, co-author, or executive editor of the following works: • 60 Leaders on Artificial Intelligence - 2022 • 60 Leaders on Innovation - 2021 • The Future Fit Manifesto – 2021 • The Other Side of Growth: An Innovator's Responsibilities In An Emerging World – 2020. • Innovation Associate Reference Book – 2022. • Applied Innovation Master Book – 2017. • Collaborative Engineering and the Internet – 1998. Anthony has a passion for two things — 1) helping organizations reinvent themselves into engaging, human workplaces that can't help but unleash innovation, and 2) connecting organizations with the ongoing stream of new opportunities they need to own their futures. Anthony has 30+ years of industry experience, where he has led such disciplines as strategy, design, marketing, product management, engineering, manufacturing, and quality. These have given him a broad and holistic perspective on innovation that is rare amongst business leaders. He remains deeply embedded in each of these disciplines, and knows how to bridge them to deliver innovations with a lasting impact on organizations, their markets, and the world. Anthony holds graduate degrees in both Engineering and Management, as well as executive training in leadership at Ashridge Business School (London) and international business at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad). Anthony presently serves as Executive Director of Global Innovation Institute (GInI), CEO of Legacy Innovation Group, and adviser to numerous advisory boards around the world. anthonymills.com

I was born in Switzerland, finished school, did an apprenticeship and became self-employed at the age of 22. Now we run a company that includes 3 online shops and the main business is marketing and web design with 6 employees.

Mario Kaufmann holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Accounting & Finance from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and is a certified Management Accountant (CMA). After his studies, he gained practical experience at an international auditing firm before becoming an independent entrepreneur. He has profound knowledge in auditing and banking, in structuring, valuation and steering of business models, as well as in starting, building and managing companies. He was a co-founder and the CFO of a start-up company in the field of digitalisation. In addition, he pushed his own entrepreneurial activities in the areas of digitalisation, environmental technologies and in the advisory business

Larry Bridgesmith J.D. is Strategic Advisor to Guardrail Technologies and Chair of the non-profit Guardrail Foundation. He founded the first Tennessee registered legal DAO for the association of legal reformers, DAO dispute resolution, and legal wrapper consultation.. Larry is a member of the Global Advisory Group and co-founder of the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM). He was awarded the Legal Innovation award by the President of the Tennessee Bar Association and the Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice Janice Holder award for legal innovation. Larry’s work in legal technology innovation was recognized as a finalist in the British Legal Technology Awards for 2021 and Law.com’s Innovator of the year in 2023 in the Southeastern United States. He founded Lipscomb University’s Institute for Conflict Management. Larry teaches at Vanderbilt University School of Law (where he co-founded the Program on Law & Innovation) Belmont University Massey Graduate School of Business, and Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, (where he was recognized as Teacher of the Year in 2022).

Fields of Expertise: Law, emerging technologies, education, training, entrepreneurial activities

He is a digital economist, educator, futurist, impact-driven entrepreneur, and former diplomat and is dedicated to leveraging technology and technology policy to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Fields of Expertise:Digital Economy, Digital Ecosystem Analysis, Political Economy, Diplomacy, International Development, Innovation, Creativity, DAOs, Web 3.0, Blockchain, Entrepreneurship