At Bleeding.Technology we track over 100,000 web 3.0, NFT, DeFi & crypto 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 Germany based CEO’ operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
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 Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Marco Streng
CEO & Co-Founder of Genesis Digital Assets
Marco Streng is the CEO & Co-Founder of Genesis Digital Assets.
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About Genesis Digital Assets, Genesis Mining, Logos Fund: Genesis Digital Assets is an industrial-scale bitcoin mining operator.
Gavin Wood
Founder, CEO and Lead Developer of Parity Technologies
Gavin Wood was the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and is the creator and author of the first functional Ethereum implementation. Gavin Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol. He has pushed “state-of-the-art” in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups.Gavin Wood has presented to numerous audiences around the world, from keynotes at regional technology conferences, to musings on the future of legal systems at Harvard. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York. His new initiative is the Polkadot protocol, which will connect public and private blockchains so that they can inter-operate. This ambitious project could make it frictionless for corporations that wish to work in private blockchains to connect with public blockchains. Gavin is founder and current director of Parity Technologies Ltd. He has pushed the state-of-the-art in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups, including Grid Singularity and Ethereum. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol and author of its formal specification, he created and wrote the first functional Ethereum implementation, designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol.
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About Parity Technologies, Polkadot: Parity aims to enable businesses and organisations to capitalize on blockchain technology and benefit from the new opportunities.
Michael Geike
CEO / Vorstand of Advanced Blockchain
Michael is a mathematician with over six years’ experience as an investment banker for JP Morgan. He has also led teams of Data Scientists, focused on optimizing payment algorithms for Zalando, and has co-founded the first publicly listed Distributed Ledger Technology company, Smart Equity AG, in 2013. Michael is an advisor to peaq. peaq is a decentralised ecosystem which enables tokenisation and exchange of any digital asset built on the most advanced form of Distributed Ledger Technology currently available, the Tangle Network. The platform facilitates innovation by providing a framework by which entrepreneurs can tokenize their ideas and have them listed and traded on the first truly-decentralised, lightning fast, infinitely scalable, quantum-resistant exchange. The peaq project will add a whole new dimension to the crypto-world, making it possible to create previously inconceivable projects in currently non-existent digital markets.
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About Advanced Blockchain, peaq: We invest in early stage companies and help them grow by providing technical and operational resources to support them.
Brian Fabian Crain
Co-Founder & CEO of Chorus One
Brian Fabian Crain is a Berlin-based economist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and co-host of the blockchain podcast Epicenter (250+ episodes, 4m+ downloads), founder and organizer of Blockchain Meetup Berlin. He is also co-founder & CEO of Chorus One. He has degrees in economics, philosophy and cognitive science from the University of Chicago, London School of Economics and University College London.
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About Chorus One, Epicenter, Epicenter: Chorus One is building validation and staking infrastructure for Proof-of-Stake networks.
Patrick Lowry
CEO & Managing Partner of Iconic Holding
Patrick Lowry is the CEO and Managing Partner of Iconic Holding and the CEO of Cryptology Asset Group. Iconic Holding is a global crypto asset management group. Iconic launched Iconic Lab in early 2017, a global crypto VC and accelerator, and a series of crypto asset index vehicles under the Iconic Funds brand. Cryptology is a Malta based investment company investing in crypto assets and companies around the world with portfolio companies including Block.one, nextmarkets and Iconic. Previously, Patrick was an auditor at PwC and worked many years in private equity and in venture capital, most notably for the German stock exchange, Deutsche Börse. He holds an MBA degree, a BS in Finance and Accounting and a CPA license.
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About Cryptology Asset Group, Iconic Holding: Iconiq Holding is a decentralized venture capital group that builds a premier digital asset management ecosystem.
Maximilian von Wallenberg-Pachaly
Co-Founder / CEO of Unstoppable Finance
– Serial FinTech Entrepreneur with a passion for crypto assets / decentralized finance – Led Crypto Trading exchange of Börse Stuttgart as CEO/MD – Built UpTick, one of Europe’s largest mobile-only social trading brokerages – Digital Assets & Blockchain
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About Unstoppable Finance: Unstoppable Finance is building a next-gen crypto wallet to bring DeFi to retail investors globally.
Gunjan Bhardwaj
Founder & CEO of Innoplexus
Gunjan Bhardwaj is the Founder and CEO of the Innoplexus group. He was earlier with the Boston Consulting Group and before that the leader of the global business performance think-tank of Ernst & Young and a manager in the German practice with a solution focus on strategy and innovation. He has led projects in strategy, analytics and technology for various clients in different parts of the world. Gunjan was also a partner, senior-editor and advisor for a prominent online innovation management journal and was a member of the scientific advisory board of a US based not for profit institute researching in complexity sciences in the healthcare industry. Gunjan is also a guest lecturer at the European Business School for growth management based out of Frankfurt, Germany and FIA Business School in Sao Paulo. He has also been in the advisory board of a Future management initiative of a big Pharma company in Germany. He was also an honorary representative of the state of Baden-Württemberg to India. Gunjan has been publishing in many scientific and business journals such as the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Review and Journal of Service Research. He has also published a book on marketing in emerging markets. He has studied at IIT Bombay, Pforzheim Business School, MIT Sloan and European Business School.
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About Innoplexus: Innoplexus™ – AI and Blockchain powered data analytics solutions help the life science industry gain real-time access to relevant insights
Alexander Bernstein
CEO of Spherium.Finance
Alexander Bernstein is a Managing Partner at Amberstone Ventures.
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About CURE, Spherium.Finance: A Decentralized and Borderless Financial System that gives users complete control of their finances
Zoe Adamovicz
Co-founder & CEO of Neufund
Zoe Adamovicz, CEO and co-founder at Neufund. With a diverse academic background spanning computer science, sociology, and Ayurvedic medicine, Zoe is a pioneering tech entrepreneur, a serial founder and CEO. Over the past 20 years, she has co-founded multiple startups, raised countless rounds of venture capital, and driven a number of exits. Her most recent venture, Neufund.org, is a fintech firm for securities tokenization that aims to democratize access to global innovation capital. The venture has raised 7 million USD and deployed 20 million USD to date through its groundbreaking blockchain platform. A mindful entrepreneur and leader, Zoe believes that every founder’s fundamental duty should be to avoid the weaponization of technology at all costs. Named by Forbes as one of 2018’s five female rock stars in blockchain, and FORBES top 50 women in tech Zoe has been profiled in a number of high-profile publications such as TechCrunch, Investing.com or Berlin Valley. She’s also involved in a number of ecosystem building projects, such as advisory to Liechtenstein and German governments on creating DLT frameworks and also joined the Innovation Board advising to Minister of Digitalization in Germany.
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About Concise Software, Neufund, Xyo: Neufund is a fintech startup that connects innovative companies seeking capital with progressive investors.
Abdullah Orkun Kaya
CEO & Co-Founder of Coinradar
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About Coinradar, Symanto: Coinradar is an innovative AI-powered social and on-chain analytics platform.
Benjamin Jones
CEO , CTO & Co-Founder of Nuri
Benjamin Jones is a self-taught programer with over 5 years of experience in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. A London School of Economics graduate, Ben previously taught programming in Ghana, founded a web agency for early-stage startups, and was an economist in the UK civil service.
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About Nuri: Nuri empowers people to manage and grow their wealth through innovative technologies.
Ewald Hesse
CEO of Grid Singularity
Ewald Hesse is Chairman of the Energy Web Foundation and leads the Grid Singularity venture, rooted in his extensive experience in the energy sector and acute interest in distributed business models. Grid Singularity, established in early 2016, has become globally recognized as a leading blockchain technology developer in the energy sector, featured in relevant industry reports and events, including the Clean Energy Ministerial Conference (San Francisco, USA, June 2016), European Utility Week, (Barcelona, Spain, October 2016), the CleanTech Forum Europe (Lyon, France, April 2016), the International Smart Grid Action Network workshop (Yokohama, Japan, March 2016), the DENA TechFestival (Berlin, March 2017) the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge (February 2016), and many others. Prior to founding Grid Singularity, Ewald served as Regional director for business development and strategy in Southeast Europe at Andritz Hydro, one of the world’s largest hydropower technology providers. Earlier in his career, he explored technology transfer and joint ventures in China and the European automobile sector, working in management positions at Metzler and ABB. He then also co-founded several companies in the area merchandise and distribution such as Trend Visions Trading.
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About Grid Singularity: Grid Singularity is a creating an open Internet-based decentralized energy data exchange platform built on the blockchain technology.
Benjamin Bilski
Group Founder & CEO of The NAGA Group
Benjamin Bilski is the Group Founder & CEO. He is a serial entrepreneur and a former professional swimmer. At the age of 21, he co-founded angelplatz.de, one of Germany’s leading e-commerce shop for fishing equipment. During his entrepreneurial career, he studied and graduated from EBS University with an M.Sc. in Management. Benjamin Bilski is strongly technology-focused and has a deep understanding of eCommerce, finance, mobile and affiliate-based models. He got included in the famous “FORBES 30 under 30 – Europe talent list.
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About Naga, Swipy, Switex, The NAGA Group: NAGA AG Group is a German-based fintech company founded in 2015 and publicly listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Christopher May
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Finoa
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About Finoa: Finoa is a regulated custodian for digital assets offering custody and staking services to institutional investors and corporations.
Jakob Drzazga
Co-Founder & CEO of Brickblock
Former real estate asset manager who was frustrated with the inefficiencies in the fund administration process. Out of his experience he started Brickblock, the company behind ScalingFunds.com.
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About Brickblock: Providing a full suite SaaS solution to setup, raise and manage an alternative investment fund e.g. Real estate, Private Equity, Hedge Fund
Ingo Ruebe
Project Lead,Founder and CEO. of KILT Protocol
Ingo Ruebe is the Founder of KILT Protocol.
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About KILT Protocol: KILT Protocol is an open-source blockchain protocol for creating Web 3.0 credentials that are verifiable, revocable, and anonymous.
Radoslav Albrecht
Founder & CEO of Bitbond
Radoslav is the founder & CEO of Bitbond, the first global marketplace lending platform for small business loans. He is a frequent speaker at conferences about financial innovation and financial inclusion. Before founding Bitbond he worked for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and advised financial services providers in Europe and Western Africa in restructuring and post-merger integrations. Prior to that Radoslav was with Deutsche Bank London in sales & trading of structured products.
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About Bitbond: Compliant tokenization and digital asset custody enterprise software.
Dirk Weyel
Founder & CEO of Stryking Entertainment
Founder and CEO Dirk Weyel is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years’ experience in the games industry. Most recently, as co-founder and COO, he helped turn Frogster Interactive Pictures AG into one of the leading online games publishers in Europe. At Frogster he was responsible for Strategy, Marketing and Business Development until the company has been acquired by a competitor in 2011. Dirk is also an active business angel and advisor to young start-ups, and a supervisory board member in two successful games companies.
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About 4-Real Intermedia, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Fanzone Media, Frogster Interactive Pictures, GamesGroup, Stryking Entertainment, Torben, Lucie und die gelbe Gefahr (TLGG) GmbH: Stryking Entertainment specializes in sports fan engagement and monetization by combining the real and virtual world.
Vijay Pravin Maharajan
CEO of bitsCrunch
Founder & CEO – bitsCrunch | Entrepreneur | Angel Investor | TEDx Speaker | Data Analytics Expert | ‘40 under 40 Data Scientists’ in India | Blockchain | NFT
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About bitsCrunch: A Blockchain Analytics company which is headquarted in Munich, Germany – uses AI & ML to secure the NFT Ecosystem.
Joshua Scigala
Founder & CEO of Vaultoro
Josh is an award-winning designer, animator & entrepreneur. He has co-founded 5 technology startups as well as leading large technical teams. He was a pioneer in the sharing economy as well as in the blockchain space.
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About Vaultoro: Vaultoro is a financial technology company specialized in digital assets and commodities trading.
Balazs Deme
Founder & CEO of Herdius
Balazs has been involved in the blockchain space since 2012. Before founding Herdius. he has launched and worked on different ventures across a wide range of industries, from eCommerce to the gaming market. Besides blockchain, he has also been heavily involved in A.I. development projects in recent years. Before moving to Berlin, he lived in Budapest and Houston, Texas.
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About Herdius: Herdius intends to build a highly performant decentralized financial platform.
Laurent Martin
CEO of Thoughtful
ICO consultant with hands-on ICO experience in #6 ICO of all time. Entrepreneur and senior tech manager. Marketing strategist and blockchain product development specialist. Opera singer and Berlin transplant from Los Angeles, via Silicon Valley.
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About Thoughtful: Startup consultantcy based in Berlin
Michael Reuter
CEO of Datarella
Michael Reuter is co-founder of Datarella, CrowdstartCapital, RAAY and Baltic Data Science. Before he founded AppAdvisors, appstar., YiGG and trvelgate.
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About Datarella: Datarella – The Industrial Blockchain Company
Stephan Noller
CEO of UBIRCH
Psychologist and serial entrepeneur from Cologne, Germany. Found one of the first machine learning companies in the european tech-sphere (nugg.ad) and sold it to Deutsche Post DHL. Passionate about technology, algorithms and internet of things. Currently involved in three different hardware / IoT startups, ubirch (secure IoT), calliope (educational IoT technology) and trackle (ovulation tracker wearable). Member of the advisory board of the German ministry of economics and energy.
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About trackle GmbH, UBIRCH: UBIRCH offers data trust: data is sealed at the source, anchored into multiple public blockchains and made verifiable through an API.
Katharina Gehra
Co-Founder and CEO of Immutable Insight
Katharina Gehra is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Immutable Insight.
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About Immutable Insight: Immutable Insight is an information technology company that offers analytical reports, asset analyses, and portfolio strategies.
Michael Mertens
Founder and CEO of CryptoTec
Michael Mertens holds a diploma from the University of Aachen, Germany, as a computer scientist specialized in mathematics, IT security and cryptography. Mertens is one of the most important pioneers in the development of central (trust centre) and decentral (web of trust) authentication systems. Already while at university, he studied PKI-based encryption solutions. In his diploma thesis he developed a concept for Identity Management for blockchain technology. During his studies, he has worked with Wei Dai. The exchange concerned the cryptographic possibilities with regard to the idea of a cryptographic currency that was implemented as a b-money by Wei Dai in 1998 and formed the basis for the bitcoin idea and blockchain technology. Mertens became an independent businessman in 1992 and has been securing the digital communication of companies using the PGP software since then. Since 1995, he has been securing the electronic transfer of sensitive flight data for airports. Mertens has been doing extensive work in the Internet-based securities trade since 2000. His task in the establishment of one of the very first portals for online trading ever was ensuring the encrypted and legally binding transfer of data. In 2004 Michael Mertens founded the iDev GmbH, a company for individual software solutions in the area of secure, distributed systems. Already two years after its founding, iDev was the market leader in the field of POS solutions and, in 2009, a leader in self-service terminals. In 2014, Mertens and Dr. Michael Raumann founded the CryptoTec AG. The aim of the foundation was to make cryptographic encodings usable for companies of all sizes and to expand the cyber security. The technology company now offers high-security solutions for connected distributed computer systems. Mertens is a recognized expert on cryptography, blockchain, agile development and usability. He advises companies in the healthcare sector and he regularly gives lectures at conferences and universities.
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About CryptoTec: CryptoTec provides high-security solutions for connecting decentralized computer systems.
Christopher Nigischer
CEO of Blockchain Research Lab
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About Blockchain Research Lab, CHAINSTEP: Blockchain Research Lab provides research and development services on the blockchain industry.
Matthew Klimpke
Co-founder & CEO of Vyking
Matthew Klimpke is CEO and Co-founder of Vyking, a computer vision company specialized in mobile AR try-on, sizing and fitting solutions for the footwear industry.
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About Vyking: Making Digital Fashion Wearable
Jonathan Maycock
Co-founder & CEO of Margin
Jonathan worked as a software developer at Scottish Equitable International before returning to academia to complete a PhD in Optics and Computer Science. Afterwards he set up and ran the Manual Intelligence Lab at CITEC in Bielefeld University for over 8 years. It took bitcoin to entice him back to finance.
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About Margin: Margin is a bitcoin trading terminal.
Fabian Riewe
Founder and CEO of KYVE
Fabian Riewe is the Founder and CEO of KYVE.
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About KYVE: KYVE can store any data stream, with built-in validation by leveraging Arweave, we can permanently and immutably store this data.
Mike Kirillov
CEO, Founder of Hito Wallet
An experienced geek-entrepreneur with strong hardware-software development skills and proven one-man-band startup launcher
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About Hito Wallet: Hito Wallet is a stylish device for ultra secure crypto storage and software wallet
Martin Kreitmair
CEO of Tangany
Graduated a Master (M.Sc.) in Economic computer science at the University of Munich in 2013. During a phase of the search for meaning in various industries, he finally found his home in Online Marketing at Catbird Seat GmbH. After 7 years he decided to leave the industry and moved on to Blockchain by founding his own Start-Up.
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About Tangany: Tangany is a regulated European blockchain custody provider for companies (B2B SaaS).
Nathan Williams
Founder and CEO of Minespider
Nathan Williams is an experienced blockchain entrepreneur. He is the Founder & CEO of Minespider, a second-layer protocol for responsibly sourced mineral data on a public blockchain which recently announced its partnership with Volkswagen. Nathan is a regular conference speaker, moderator, and co-host of the Analysis in Chains blockchain podcast.
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About Minespider, Subvise: Minespider is a public-permissioned blockchain for supply chain due diligence.
Jan Heinrich Meyer
Founder and CEO of Dash Embassy D-A-CH
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About Dash Embassy D-A-CH: Dash Embassy DA-CH has made it its mission to educate people about cryptocurrencies in general & Dash in particular.
Lukas Pünder
Co-founder / CEO of retraced
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About Cano, retraced: Retraced provides a SaaS solution enabling tracing of fashion supply chains with Blockchain technology.
Peter Kris
Co-founder, CEO of Mangata Finance
Peter Kris is the Co-Founder and CEO at Mangata.
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About Mangata Finance: Easy and secure decentralized trading for Polkadot and Ethereum. The first L1 DEX blockchain without insider trading and MEV.
Leonid Mechik
CEO of INHUBBER
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About INHUBBER, MECHIK GmbH: INHUBBER is the world’s safest SaaS contract lifecycle management platform with a native digital signature.
Chris Heinze
CEO and Co-Founder of Authoreon.io
Blockchain Architect, CEO & Co-Founder Authoreon.io
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About Authoreon.io: Authoreon solutions prevent fraud, cyber attacks, material and immaterial identity theft.
Adrian Vogler
CEO and Founder of StratWorX
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About StratWorX: StratWorX is the AI-based and talent-centric platform for strategic workforce management.
Matthias Klees
CEO of Federated Blockchains Initiative
Matthias Klees is an entrepreneur and consultant with a long history within the blockchain and crypto space. He is the founder of EuropeCoin, which is the first officially approved professional group of advisors on cryptocurrencies in Brussels. EuropeCoin is not to be mixed up with the cryptocurrency bearing the same name. Matthias is also European Advisor and CEO of the Federated Blockchains Project, who are developing the Financecloud API Device.
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About Federated Blockchains Initiative: Federated Blockchains Initiative aims to make cryptocurrencies more accessable, easy and secure, while keeping the user in control.
Tobias Rasche
Co-Founder & CEO of Yptokey
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About Yptokey: Yptokey provides secure access to an ecosystem of connected assets for new business models and service integrations.
Dimitri Haußmann
Founder & CEO of Crypto comparison
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About Crypto comparison: Crypto comparison provides comparison and evaluation services for crypto currencies and blockchain technologies.
Phong Dao
Co-Founder & CEO of iVE.ONE
Phong Dao is founder at miwalk.
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About iVE.ONE: iVE.ONE from Agora Innovation, is a web platform that connects the three pillars of digital securities – issuance, invest and legal.
Florian Fiedler
CEO & Co-Founder of Blockbay
Florian Fiedler has 15 years of profound expertise from positions in banking, top management consulting, technology corporations and startups. Prior to founding Blockbay, Florian was Senior Vice President Strategy/M&A at HSH Nordbank. As Head of Digital, he was responsible for the bank’s digitization strategy and established the institute as selective innovation leader in areas such as Blockchain. Furthermore, Florian gained comprehensive experience in top management consulting and was leading projects on board level for international banks. In addition to that, he has worked for IBM Corporation as their Head of Strategic Projects as well as for a startup company of Deutsche Telekom. During his international career, Florian successfully worked on founding a bank, acquiring a bank as well as selling a bank. He holds an MBA degree after studying at the Universities of Hamburg and Istanbul and is author of scientific papers about Mobile Commerce.
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About Blockbay: Blockbay provide a platform for traders of cryptocurrencies, which enables a new era of trading.
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