Walter brings nearly three decades of leadership experience across fintech and telecommunications. He is former CEO of Energy Web and former COO of bank-wide operations at ING Bank. He has also held senior board positions at Vodafone, BT, NEC Corporation and several startups. He guides the strategic direction of Aventus and supports business and partnership growth.

Alan is a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner for his work as founder of Aventus, with previous experience at Deloitte and Brevan Howard. He completed his Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence at Imperial College London. His Master’s thesis was on blockchain technology, during which he conceived a business plan for what became Aventus. He has created companies and tokens worth over $300M today.

Andrey has over 20 years’ experience leading product and software engineering efforts, primarily in distributed
systems and security applications, spanning large multinational companies and startups in fintech, blockchain
and cloud industries. Ex-R3 and Oracle, he is a graduate of Warwick University and holds an MBA and MSc software engineering degrees.

Chas has 20 years’ professional experience in marketing and business development as well as in asset management and corporate finance in London and Singapore. Chas founded Obsidian Sports Management in 2017 and has been involved in the sports market since 2014. Since being mandated to look for partnership opportunities in the European Football Leagues for an overseas sports franchise owner, Chas has developed several key relationships with leading European Premier League clubs and Formula E teams, facilitating multiple lucrative sponsorship deals.

Ochi has over a decade of experience in business management and operations leadership, primarily within financial services. Ochi holds a degree in Mathematics from Queen Mary University, London.

Robyn has held Head of Marketing positions in the Aventus ecosystem since 2017. Prior to Aventus, Robyn ran marketing at the Stephex Group, global leader in the equestrian industry. Robyn holds a BSc in Architecture from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (University College London).

Alex Pinto, combines a broad background in software engineering and academic experience, including a PhD in Cryptography and teaching undergraduate computer science courses. Before joining Aventus, he was a researcher at the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway University of London, and a software engineer at Sophos and Fidessa, where he developed charting applications for Technical Analysis in Trading. A firm believer in the power of education, he maintains a blog promoting blockchains, cryptography and a scientific approach to software development.

Nahu Seyoum, is a software engineer with over 13 years experience developing enterprise grade software targeting desktop, web and blockchain applications in various industries. He has spent 10 years as a full stack developer and over three years working on blockchain. He has experience designing and writing smart contracts on Ethereum and more recently focusing on substrate and rust.

Glyn Dimond, is a senior engineer at Aventus, who has followed blockchain’s progress since the release of the Bitcoin whitepaper. After completing his MEng in AI & Cybernetics at the University of Reading he worked across finance, security, and distributed systems, specialising in writing Solidity smart contracts from 2018 onwards, with a number of successful projects now live on Ethereum mainnet.

Thanos has eight years’ experience in software development, specialised in systems programming. He is an Agile coach and Dev-Ops enthusiast, with a BA & Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Athens.

Since joining Aventus in 2019 as a Blockchain Engineer, Thanos has been key in developing the Aventus Network and its surrounding ecosystem.

Daniel is a Bitcoin pioneer and Executive Chairman of CoinShares, a company that has accumulated over $3B in
assets in XBT Provider listed products while having attracted over 40,000 clients. He is an entrepreneur, visionary founder and industry leader in the domain space’s first two NASDAQ-listed bitcoin and ethereum tracking certificates and Director of the world’s largest, first fully regulated Bitcoin Fund (which is now
retired). He co-founded Global Advisors in 1999, after serving as Global Head of Energy and Trading Business at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company (“MGT”) in New York (now JP Morgan Chase & Co.).

Prof. William Knottenbelt is Professor of Applied Quantitative Analysis in the Department of Computing and Director of the Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering (IC3RE). He is an expert of the World Economic Forum on blockchain and is technical advisor to a number of blockchain start-ups including Aventus, Gradbase and Alice.si.

Serra Angel Wei is a cryptocurrency finance executive, investor and entrepreneur with over 10 years’ experience in traditional and blockchain-based finance. She founded Aegis Custody in 2018 to solve the problem of illiquidity as a barrier to value creation.

Prior to Aegis Custody, Serra was a crypto investor at Passport Capital, where she helped build the Asian digital asset strategy desk to bridge the gap between cryptocurrency and institutional finance, with a focus on blockchain funds of funds and direct ICO investments.

Serra holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Maurizio has 37 years’ experience in the aviation industry. His career began at Alitalia as a Cargo Agent and progressed through to being an Operations Manager. Maurizio has worked in Milan, Paris and London, and in 2013, he joined ground handling company, ASC, as General Manager. ASC started with one customer and after 5 years, maurizio became Managing Director, growing the business to 13 airlines for passengers and cargo, including Cargo Lux, one of the largest cargo carriers globally.