Silta is a bridging protocol between financiers and developers of real-world assets.
The time for responsible financing has come.
The purpose of Silta is to enable DeFi and TradFi to fund renewable energy, clean water and other forms of sustainable infrastructure for a better world. The Silta protocol is being built by Silta Finance AG and will be incrementally decentralized in line with the roadmap.
The Silta mission is to direct finance towards sustainable infrastructure.
$3.3 trillion
Size of the global
infrastructure market*
$350
billion
Annual shortfall in
investment*
$275 billion
In sustainable infrasctructure
projects announced in 2020**
35%
of all infrastructure projects globally are sustainable, up from 10% a decade ago**
The Silta mission is to direct finance towards sustainable infrastructure.
$3.3 trillion
Size of the global
infrastructure market*
$350 billion
Annual shortfall in
investment*
$275 billion
In sustainable infrasctructure
projects announced in 2020**
35%
of all infrastructure projects globally are sustainable, up from 10% a decade ago**
THE TEAM BUILDING SILTA
BOARD
Ben Sheppard
Co-founder
Ben is an experienced founder in the tech and engineering industries. He has led project finance transactions in excess of $9bn in multiple sectors and countries. He has advised governments and the private sector, including HSBC, Rockefeller Foundation, and World Bank. He has led multi-million dollar equity and token investment rounds and appeared on Bloomberg TV and panels at WEF and Google.
Risto Karjalainen
Co-founder
Risto is a finance professional with a Ph.D. from the Wharton School. He’s a quant with a long international career in systematic trading and institutional asset management, formally with JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and well-known hedge funds in London. Risto is a co-founder as well as the COO of Streamr Network AG. His interests include real-time computing, machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, behavioural finance, and decentralized governance.
Stanley Boots
Co-founder
Stanley is a co-founder of Frontier Law & Advisory, an advisory firm in the project finance and infrastructure sectors. He has 22 years legal experience in project finance, renewable energy and infrastructure development mainly in Southeast Asia. Stanley was previously an infrastructure lawyer with DL Piper and Hogan Lovells, and he is a well-known voice in Vietnam's PPP development. More recently Stanley was engaged by the Asian Development Bank to write the first ever PPP law for Vietnam.
James Cook
Non-Executive Director
James brings 19 years of experience of PPP and project finance transactions, having worked as a developer, investor, financial and technical advisor on over 30 infrastructure transactions globally, with a combined capital value in excess of USD $20bn. He has resided and worked in the UAE for the past 11 years. James is the Head of Tribe Advisory, and has previously held roles at Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) and at Ernst & Young.
Ben Sheppard
Co-founder
Ben is an experienced founder in the tech and engineering industries. He has led project finance transactions in excess of $9bn in multiple sectors and countries. He has advised governments and the private sector, including HSBC, Rockefeller Foundation, and World Bank. He has led multi-million dollar equity and token investment rounds and appeared on Bloomberg TV and panels at WEF and Google.
Risto Karjalainen
Co-founder
Risto is a finance professional with a Ph.D. from the Wharton School. He’s a quant with a long international career in systematic trading and institutional asset management, formally with JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and well-known hedge funds in London. Risto is a co-founder as well as the COO of Streamr Network AG. His interests include real-time computing, machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, behavioural finance, and decentralized governance.
Stanley Boots
Co-founder
Stanley is a co-founder of Frontier Law & Advisory, an advisory firm in the project finance and infrastructure sectors. He has 22 years legal experience in project finance, renewable energy and infrastructure development mainly in Southeast Asia. Stanley was previously an infrastructure lawyer with DL Piper and Hogan Lovells, and he is a well-known voice in Vietnam's PPP development. More recently Stanley was engaged by the Asian Development Bank to write the first ever PPP law for Vietnam.
James Cook
Non-Executive Director
James brings 19 years of experience of PPP and project finance transactions, having worked as a developer, investor, financial and technical advisor on over 30 infrastructure transactions globally, with a combined capital value in excess of USD $20bn. He has resided and worked in the UAE for the past 11 years. James is the Head of Tribe Advisory, and has previously held roles at Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) and at Ernst & Young.
Ben Sheppard
Co-founder
Ben is an experienced founder in the tech and engineering industries. He has led project finance transactions in excess of $9bn in multiple sectors and countries. He has advised governments and the private sector, including HSBC, Rockefeller Foundation, and World Bank. He has led multi-million dollar equity and token investment rounds and appeared on Bloomberg TV and panels at WEF and Google.
Risto Karjalainen
Co-founder
Risto is a finance professional with a Ph.D. from the Wharton School. He’s a quant with a long international career in systematic trading and institutional asset management, formally with JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and well-known hedge funds in London. Risto is a co-founder as well as the COO of Streamr Network AG. His interests include real-time computing, machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, behavioural finance, and decentralized governance.
Stanley Boots
Co-founder
Stanley is a co-founder of Frontier Law & Advisory, an advisory firm in the project finance and infrastructure sectors. He has 22 years legal experience in project finance, renewable energy and infrastructure development mainly in Southeast Asia. Stanley was previously an infrastructure lawyer with DL Piper and Hogan Lovells, and he is a well-known voice in Vietnam's PPP development. More recently Stanley was engaged by the Asian Development Bank to write the first ever PPP law for Vietnam.
James Cook
Non-Executive Director
James brings 19 years of experience of PPP and project finance transactions, having worked as a developer, investor, financial and technical advisor on over 30 infrastructure transactions globally, with a combined capital value in excess of USD $20bn. He has resided and worked in the UAE for the past 11 years. James is the Head of Tribe Advisory, and has previously held roles at Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) and at Ernst & Young.
TEAM
Arthur Machado
Head of Growth & Marketing
Arthur (Artie) has been involved in the Avalanche community since January 2021. He is the only known recipient of the Community Champion NFT awarded by Emin Gün Sirer, the founder of Avalanche, as well as the only recognised Avalanche Ambassador in Australia. Artie is also the co-founder of aalpha, a communal hub for Avalanche. He has assisted several partnerships within Avalanche and assisted several start-up projects find their feet within the ecosystem.
Rob Holmes
Head of Transactions
Formerly a Senior Consultant for a top 5 global engineering firm, Rob has overseen major transactions between the government and private sector on infrastructure projects. More recently, Rob has led multiple web3 projects involving DeFi, data marketplaces, data monetisation, multi-party computation and data privacy.
Özlem Kildir
Head of Climate Finance
Özlem is a project financier who has completed over $20bn of financing in Turkish and international markets; provided services for governmental bodies, corporates, multilaterals and financial institutions in project finance, corporate finance, PPP models, climate finance, and infrastructure financing. Her experience related to project finance and climate finance includes structuring and arranging deals, forming green / sustainable loan / bond structures, analysing creditworthiness of projects, performing financial analysis of projects, and risk determination. She has been a part of the largest project finance deals in Turkey and EMEA.
Aiza Joyce Pradas
Operations Manager
Aiza Joyce has 11 years of experience within general administration, events, HR and recruitment, and has led the incorporation of IT and consultancy companies in Asia and Europe. More recently, she has been acting as a project administrator on two EU grant-funded projects with a web3 focus and combined value exceeding 7m€.
Rosario Meyer Arana
Front End Developer
Rosario is a Barcelona-based Front End developer with a background in graphic design. She works alongside Silta designers to implement a seamless user experience on the Silta solution. Rosario has worked with multiple startups in different fields to develop products and services in a digital environment, and finds passion in seeing the hours of work and dreams materialise into digital services that solve real-world problems.
Adrià Vizdomine
Head of Design
Adrià is a multidisciplinary designer based in Barcelona with 10 years of experience and a focus on creating clean but functional design experiences. Adrià’s work combines the design craft process with interactive best practices to build smart solutions for real products. He is experienced in creating user-centered websites and apps from scratch whilst having in mind the business requirements of each project.
Linh Dang
Legal Advisor
Linh Dang is a Vietnamese lawyer. Besides playing a role in the legal team of Silta, Linh Dang also works as a Paralegal at Frontier Law & Advisory, an international law firm specialising in project financing, PPPs and infrastructure. Prior to Frontier Law & Advisory, she used to practice law in a top-tier law firm in Vietnam where she handled high value and multinational transactions, gaining invaluable experience in business and investment law.
Arthur Machado
Head of Growth & Marketing
Arthur (Artie) has been involved in the Avalanche community since January 2021. He is the only known recipient of the Community Champion NFT awarded by Emin Gün Sirer, the founder of Avalanche, as well as the only recognised Avalanche Ambassador in Australia. Artie is also the co-founder of aalpha, a communal hub for Avalanche. He has assisted several partnerships within Avalanche and assisted several start-up projects find their feet within the ecosystem.
Rob Holmes
Head of Transactions
Formerly a Senior Consultant for a top 5 global engineering firm, Rob has overseen major transactions between the government and private sector on infrastructure projects. More recently, Rob has led multiple web3 projects involving DeFi, data marketplaces, data monetisation, multi-party computation and data privacy.
Özlem Kildir
Head of Climate Finance
Özlem is a project financier who has completed over $20bn of financing in Turkish and international markets; provided services for governmental bodies, corporates, multilaterals and financial institutions in project finance, corporate finance, PPP models, climate finance, and infrastructure financing. Her experience related to project finance and climate finance includes structuring and arranging deals, forming green / sustainable loan / bond structures, analysing creditworthiness of projects, performing financial analysis of projects, and risk determination. She has been a part of the largest project finance deals in Turkey and EMEA.
Aiza Joyce Pradas
Operations Manager
Aiza Joyce has 11 years of experience within general administration, events, HR and recruitment, and has led the incorporation of IT and consultancy companies in Asia and Europe. More recently, she has been acting as a project administrator on two EU grant-funded projects with a web3 focus and combined value exceeding 7m€.
Rosario Meyer Arana
Front End Developer
Rosario is a Barcelona-based Front End developer with a background in graphic design. She works alongside Silta designers to implement a seamless user experience on the Silta solution. Rosario has worked with multiple startups in different fields to develop products and services in a digital environment, and finds passion in seeing the hours of work and dreams materialise into digital services that solve real-world problems.
Adrià Vizdomine
Head of Design
Adrià is a multidisciplinary designer based in Barcelona with 10 years of experience and a focus on creating clean but functional design experiences. Adrià’s work combines the design craft process with interactive best practices to build smart solutions for real products. He is experienced in creating user-centered websites and apps from scratch whilst having in mind the business requirements of each project.
Linh Dang
Legal Advisor
Linh Dang is a Vietnamese lawyer. Besides playing a role in the legal team of Silta, Linh Dang also works as a Paralegal at Frontier Law & Advisory, an international law firm specialising in project financing, PPPs and infrastructure. Prior to Frontier Law & Advisory, she used to practice law in a top-tier law firm in Vietnam where she handled high value and multinational transactions, gaining invaluable experience in business and investment law.
Arthur Machado
Head of Growth & Marketing
Arthur (Artie) has been involved in the Avalanche community since January 2021. He is the only known recipient of the Community Champion NFT awarded by Emin Gün Sirer, the founder of Avalanche, as well as the only recognised Avalanche Ambassador in Australia. Artie is also the co-founder of aalpha, a communal hub for Avalanche. He has assisted several partnerships within Avalanche and assisted several start-up projects find their feet within the ecosystem.
Rob Holmes
Head of Transactions
Formerly a Senior Consultant for a top 5 global engineering firm, Rob has overseen major transactions between the government and private sector on infrastructure projects. More recently, Rob has led multiple web3 projects involving DeFi, data marketplaces, data monetisation, multi-party computation and data privacy.
Özlem Kildir
Head of Climate Finance
Özlem is a project financier who has completed over $20bn of financing in Turkish and international markets; provided services for governmental bodies, corporates, multilaterals and financial institutions in project finance, corporate finance, PPP models, climate finance, and infrastructure financing. Her experience related to project finance and climate finance includes structuring and arranging deals, forming green / sustainable loan / bond structures, analysing creditworthiness of projects, performing financial analysis of projects, and risk determination. She has been a part of the largest project finance deals in Turkey and EMEA.
Aiza Joyce Pradas
Operations Manager
Aiza Joyce has 11 years of experience within general administration, events, HR and recruitment, and has led the incorporation of IT and consultancy companies in Asia and Europe. More recently, she has been acting as a project administrator on two EU grant-funded projects with a web3 focus and combined value exceeding 7m€.
Rosario Meyer Arana
Front End Developer
Rosario is a Barcelona-based Front End developer with a background in graphic design. She works alongside Silta designers to implement a seamless user experience on the Silta solution. Rosario has worked with multiple startups in different fields to develop products and services in a digital environment, and finds passion in seeing the hours of work and dreams materialise into digital services that solve real-world problems.
Adrià Vizdomine
Head of Design
Adrià is a multidisciplinary designer based in Barcelona with 10 years of experience and a focus on creating clean but functional design experiences. Adrià’s work combines the design craft process with interactive best practices to build smart solutions for real products. He is experienced in creating user-centered websites and apps from scratch whilst having in mind the business requirements of each project.
Linh Dang
Legal Advisor
Linh Dang is a Vietnamese lawyer. Besides playing a role in the legal team of Silta, Linh Dang also works as a Paralegal at Frontier Law & Advisory, an international law firm specialising in project financing, PPPs and infrastructure. Prior to Frontier Law & Advisory, she used to practice law in a top-tier law firm in Vietnam where she handled high value and multinational transactions, gaining invaluable experience in business and investment law.
STRATEGIC ADVISORS
Paul de Cordova
Strategic Advisor
A commercial lawyer for 30+ years, Paul has led UK and US international law firms and been the in-house counsel of a major UK-based construction company. His consultancy PDC Advisory LLP provides strategic business advice on corporate and commercial matters. He also leads the built environment practice of virtual law firm Jurit LLP. Paul has been involved in the structuring and delivery of legally complex high-value energy, transport and public infrastructure projects and has worked on transactions across Europe, South Asia, the Far East, the Middle East and Africa.
Beryl Chavez Li
Strategic Advisor
Beryl is the co-founder of Yield Guild Games. Her previous experiences include founding asset token platform CapchainX; being Entrepreneur in Residence at Coins.ph, a crypto exchange and payments startup acquired by GoJEk; backtesting FX trading algorithms at BlackRock London; product owning an investment platform at Unionbank PH, where she is currently Advisor; and authoring the Philippine Roadmap for Digital Startups. Beryl's career started in early-stage Venture Capital in Shanghai in 2012, and she holds a Master of Finance degree from Cambridge University.
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue
Strategic Advisor
Jay is a well-known voice in the crypto marketing space as the VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, a blockchain organisation building Avalanche. He has led the marketing efforts at Fluidity and AirSwap and was a strategist at Ogilvy, where he co-founded its first blockchain marketing group. Jay is the co-founder of BlockMarketers, a virtual and in-person community for marketing executives in the blockchain industry.
Michael Malka
Strategic Advisor
Michael has been part of the software industry for over 20 years in various roles, from developer, to specialist, to CEO, most recently as strategic advisor to the Streamr project and CTO of TX – Tomorrow Explored, a web3 software consulting and development company. Relevant projects include building financial creditworthiness products to help unbanked individuals gain access to DeFi microfinance. Michael has co-founded three companies and his current interests include blockchain and artificial intelligence.
Jack Lipstone
Strategic Advisor
Jack is a venture partner of Chapter One, a Web3 native venture capital firm. Jack has consulted for Netflix, United Way Foundation, and Instacart with Bain & Company in addition to completing a finance internship at an asset management firm in New York City. He co-founded a mobile cryptocurrency trading app called Ambo and sold it to MyCrypto within a year. He went from CMO of Ambo to Director of Business Development at MyCrypto.
Eddy Travia
Strategic Advisor
Eddy is a pioneer investor in blockchain technology companies and the co-founder and CEO of Coinsilium Group, a publicly listed blockchain and open finance venture builder. In 2013, after 9 years as a private equity fund manager in Greater China, Eddy co-founded the world’s first global incubator of blockchain startups. In 2014, he was named among the ‘Top 3 Most Influential Investors’ at the Blockchain Awards along with Roger Ver and Marc Andreessen. In 2015, Coinsilium Group became the first blockchain company to IPO. Eddy has led investments in more than 25 blockchain companies globally and advised more than 25 token offerings.
Heikki Vänttinen
Strategic Advisor
Heikki is a co-founder of API3, a DAO-governed oracle project building API-connectivity to web3. He is a veteran of the blockchain space with a decade of experience in business development and marketing. Heikki is passionate about connecting the real world and the decentralized web.
Jan Van Schoonhoven
Strategic Advisor
Jan has worked over 15 years in the Public and Private Partnership (PPP), dealing with roads, water and social sector, starting as Director PPP Unit of the Netherlands. He has worked extensively with institutions such as the European Investment Bank (EIB), multilateral organisations (United Nations) and the World Bank. Jan holds considerable experience in management and administration of over 20 PPP projects with a budget of 5bn€ within the EU and emerging markets. Currently he is a principal advisor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London.
Peter Lembrechts
Strategic Advisor
Peter is Head of Concessions & Assets, Strategy & Transformation for BESIX in the Middle East. Since 2014, he has been building an effective business structure and team to become a flagship for BESIX’ diversification strategy. With extensive experience of the development, negotiation and implementation of PPP projects, his career in the Middle East has been marked by a focus on business models that consider waste as a valuable resource, rather than a problem. He has previously held finance positions in a real estate developer and in a large Belgian bank.
Robin Nordblad
Strategic Advisor
Robin is a corporate lawyer who is focused on capital markets transactions and securities regulatory matters. He is the head of capital markets at Avance Attorneys in Finland and has spent a significant part of his 20-year career in the corporate and capital markets practice of a top-tier U.S. law firm in London and New York and in a global investment bank. He also has significant experience in legal matters relating to investment funds. Robin has a particular interest in developing a legal framework for decentralized finance.
Henri Pihkala
Strategic Advisor
Henri is a software engineer, serial entrepreneur, and ex algorithmic trader. He has led the development of two high-frequency algorithmic trading platforms and designed and managed building the distributed Streamr cloud analytics platform. Henri is passionate about complex architecture, scalability, usability, and blockchain. He is also a co-founder and CEO of Streamr Network AG.
Nikke Nylund
Strategic Advisor
Nikke is a former low latency algorithmic trading strategist with some 20 years of managerial and entrepreneurial experience as a founder and serial investor in ICT and tech companies with several successful exits under his belt. Nikke holds a BSc in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Helsinki School of Economics. He is also a co-founder of Streamr Network AG.
David Crosbie
Strategic Advisor
For 20+ years David has advised multilateral development banks (World Bank, IFC, EIB, EBRD, ADB), the UN, national governments and civil society organisations in 40+ countries to deliver social and environmental safeguards, poverty reduction and climate mitigation, often in the context of fragile or small island developing states or rapid urbanisation. He’s the founder of Penumbra, Senior Advisor for the UN, and ADB Team Leader for delivering $600m climate-resilient affordable housing in Mongolia. He also devises social and environmental frameworks for a bilateral agency.
Paul de Cordova
Strategic Advisor
A commercial lawyer for 30+ years, Paul has led UK and US international law firms and been the in-house counsel of a major UK-based construction company. His consultancy PDC Advisory LLP provides strategic business advice on corporate and commercial matters. He also leads the built environment practice of virtual law firm Jurit LLP. Paul has been involved in the structuring and delivery of legally complex high-value energy, transport and public infrastructure projects and has worked on transactions across Europe, South Asia, the Far East, the Middle East and Africa.
Beryl Chavez Li
Strategic Advisor
Beryl is the co-founder of Yield Guild Games. Her previous experiences include founding asset token platform CapchainX; being Entrepreneur in Residence at Coins.ph, a crypto exchange and payments startup acquired by GoJEk; backtesting FX trading algorithms at BlackRock London; product owning an investment platform at Unionbank PH, where she is currently Advisor; and authoring the Philippine Roadmap for Digital Startups. Beryl's career started in early-stage Venture Capital in Shanghai in 2012, and she holds a Master of Finance degree from Cambridge University.
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue
Strategic Advisor
Jay is a well-known voice in the crypto marketing space as the VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, a blockchain organisation building Avalanche. He has led the marketing efforts at Fluidity and AirSwap and was a strategist at Ogilvy, where he co-founded its first blockchain marketing group. Jay is the co-founder of BlockMarketers, a virtual and in-person community for marketing executives in the blockchain industry.
Michael Malka
Strategic Advisor
Michael has been part of the software industry for over 20 years in various roles, from developer, to specialist, to CEO, most recently as strategic advisor to the Streamr project and CTO of TX – Tomorrow Explored, a web3 software consulting and development company. Relevant projects include building financial creditworthiness products to help unbanked individuals gain access to DeFi microfinance. Michael has co-founded three companies and his current interests include blockchain and artificial intelligence.
Jack Lipstone
Strategic Advisor
Jack is a venture partner of Chapter One, a Web3 native venture capital firm. Jack has consulted for Netflix, United Way Foundation, and Instacart with Bain & Company in addition to completing a finance internship at an asset management firm in New York City. He co-founded a mobile cryptocurrency trading app called Ambo and sold it to MyCrypto within a year. He went from CMO of Ambo to Director of Business Development at MyCrypto.
Eddy Travia
Strategic Advisor
Eddy is a pioneer investor in blockchain technology companies and the co-founder and CEO of Coinsilium Group, a publicly listed blockchain and open finance venture builder. In 2013, after 9 years as a private equity fund manager in Greater China, Eddy co-founded the world’s first global incubator of blockchain startups. In 2014, he was named among the ‘Top 3 Most Influential Investors’ at the Blockchain Awards along with Roger Ver and Marc Andreessen. In 2015, Coinsilium Group became the first blockchain company to IPO. Eddy has led investments in more than 25 blockchain companies globally and advised more than 25 token offerings.
Heikki Vänttinen
Strategic Advisor
Heikki is a co-founder of API3, a DAO-governed oracle project building API-connectivity to web3. He is a veteran of the blockchain space with a decade of experience in business development and marketing. Heikki is passionate about connecting the real world and the decentralized web.
Jan Van Schoonhoven
Strategic Advisor
Jan has worked over 15 years in the Public and Private Partnership (PPP), dealing with roads, water and social sector, starting as Director PPP Unit of the Netherlands. He has worked extensively with institutions such as the European Investment Bank (EIB), multilateral organisations (United Nations) and the World Bank. Jan holds considerable experience in management and administration of over 20 PPP projects with a budget of 5bn€ within the EU and emerging markets. Currently he is a principal advisor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London.
Peter Lembrechts
Strategic Advisor
Peter is Head of Concessions & Assets, Strategy & Transformation for BESIX in the Middle East. Since 2014, he has been building an effective business structure and team to become a flagship for BESIX’ diversification strategy. With extensive experience of the development, negotiation and implementation of PPP projects, his career in the Middle East has been marked by a focus on business models that consider waste as a valuable resource, rather than a problem. He has previously held finance positions in a real estate developer and in a large Belgian bank.
Robin Nordblad
Strategic Advisor
Robin is a corporate lawyer who is focused on capital markets transactions and securities regulatory matters. He is the head of capital markets at Avance Attorneys in Finland and has spent a significant part of his 20-year career in the corporate and capital markets practice of a top-tier U.S. law firm in London and New York and in a global investment bank. He also has significant experience in legal matters relating to investment funds. Robin has a particular interest in developing a legal framework for decentralized finance.
Henri Pihkala
Strategic Advisor
Henri is a software engineer, serial entrepreneur, and ex algorithmic trader. He has led the development of two high-frequency algorithmic trading platforms and designed and managed building the distributed Streamr cloud analytics platform. Henri is passionate about complex architecture, scalability, usability, and blockchain. He is also a co-founder and CEO of Streamr Network AG.
Nikke Nylund
Strategic Advisor
Nikke is a former low latency algorithmic trading strategist with some 20 years of managerial and entrepreneurial experience as a founder and serial investor in ICT and tech companies with several successful exits under his belt. Nikke holds a BSc in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Helsinki School of Economics. He is also a co-founder of Streamr Network AG.
David Crosbie
Strategic Advisor
For 20+ years David has advised multilateral development banks (World Bank, IFC, EIB, EBRD, ADB), the UN, national governments and civil society organisations in 40+ countries to deliver social and environmental safeguards, poverty reduction and climate mitigation, often in the context of fragile or small island developing states or rapid urbanisation. He’s the founder of Penumbra, Senior Advisor for the UN, and ADB Team Leader for delivering $600m climate-resilient affordable housing in Mongolia. He also devises social and environmental frameworks for a bilateral agency.
Paul de Cordova
Strategic Advisor
A commercial lawyer for 30+ years, Paul has led UK and US international law firms and been the in-house counsel of a major UK-based construction company. His consultancy PDC Advisory LLP provides strategic business advice on corporate and commercial matters. He also leads the built environment practice of virtual law firm Jurit LLP. Paul has been involved in the structuring and delivery of legally complex high-value energy, transport and public infrastructure projects and has worked on transactions across Europe, South Asia, the Far East, the Middle East and Africa.
Beryl Chavez Li
Strategic Advisor
Beryl is the co-founder of Yield Guild Games. Her previous experiences include founding asset token platform CapchainX; being Entrepreneur in Residence at Coins.ph, a crypto exchange and payments startup acquired by GoJEk; backtesting FX trading algorithms at BlackRock London; product owning an investment platform at Unionbank PH, where she is currently Advisor; and authoring the Philippine Roadmap for Digital Startups. Beryl's career started in early-stage Venture Capital in Shanghai in 2012, and she holds a Master of Finance degree from Cambridge University.
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue
Strategic Advisor
Jay is a well-known voice in the crypto marketing space as the VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, a blockchain organisation building Avalanche. He has led the marketing efforts at Fluidity and AirSwap and was a strategist at Ogilvy, where he co-founded its first blockchain marketing group. Jay is the co-founder of BlockMarketers, a virtual and in-person community for marketing executives in the blockchain industry.
Michael Malka
Strategic Advisor
Michael has been part of the software industry for over 20 years in various roles, from developer, to specialist, to CEO, most recently as strategic advisor to the Streamr project and CTO of TX – Tomorrow Explored, a web3 software consulting and development company. Relevant projects include building financial creditworthiness products to help unbanked individuals gain access to DeFi microfinance. Michael has co-founded three companies and his current interests include blockchain and artificial intelligence.
Jack Lipstone
Strategic Advisor
Jack is a venture partner of Chapter One, a Web3 native venture capital firm. Jack has consulted for Netflix, United Way Foundation, and Instacart with Bain & Company in addition to completing a finance internship at an asset management firm in New York City. He co-founded a mobile cryptocurrency trading app called Ambo and sold it to MyCrypto within a year. He went from CMO of Ambo to Director of Business Development at MyCrypto.
Eddy Travia
Strategic Advisor
Eddy is a pioneer investor in blockchain technology companies and the co-founder and CEO of Coinsilium Group, a publicly listed blockchain and open finance venture builder. In 2013, after 9 years as a private equity fund manager in Greater China, Eddy co-founded the world’s first global incubator of blockchain startups. In 2014, he was named among the ‘Top 3 Most Influential Investors’ at the Blockchain Awards along with Roger Ver and Marc Andreessen. In 2015, Coinsilium Group became the first blockchain company to IPO. Eddy has led investments in more than 25 blockchain companies globally and advised more than 25 token offerings.
Heikki Vänttinen
Strategic Advisor
Heikki is a co-founder of API3, a DAO-governed oracle project building API-connectivity to web3. He is a veteran of the blockchain space with a decade of experience in business development and marketing. Heikki is passionate about connecting the real world and the decentralized web.
Jan Van Schoonhoven
Strategic Advisor
Jan has worked over 15 years in the Public and Private Partnership (PPP), dealing with roads, water and social sector, starting as Director PPP Unit of the Netherlands. He has worked extensively with institutions such as the European Investment Bank (EIB), multilateral organisations (United Nations) and the World Bank. Jan holds considerable experience in management and administration of over 20 PPP projects with a budget of 5bn€ within the EU and emerging markets. Currently he is a principal advisor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London.
Peter Lembrechts
Strategic Advisor
Peter is Head of Concessions & Assets, Strategy & Transformation for BESIX in the Middle East. Since 2014, he has been building an effective business structure and team to become a flagship for BESIX’ diversification strategy. With extensive experience of the development, negotiation and implementation of PPP projects, his career in the Middle East has been marked by a focus on business models that consider waste as a valuable resource, rather than a problem. He has previously held finance positions in a real estate developer and in a large Belgian bank.
Robin Nordblad
Strategic Advisor
Robin is a corporate lawyer who is focused on capital markets transactions and securities regulatory matters. He is the head of capital markets at Avance Attorneys in Finland and has spent a significant part of his 20-year career in the corporate and capital markets practice of a top-tier U.S. law firm in London and New York and in a global investment bank. He also has significant experience in legal matters relating to investment funds. Robin has a particular interest in developing a legal framework for decentralized finance.
Henri Pihkala
Strategic Advisor
Henri is a software engineer, serial entrepreneur, and ex algorithmic trader. He has led the development of two high-frequency algorithmic trading platforms and designed and managed building the distributed Streamr cloud analytics platform. Henri is passionate about complex architecture, scalability, usability, and blockchain. He is also a co-founder and CEO of Streamr Network AG.
Nikke Nylund
Strategic Advisor
Nikke is a former low latency algorithmic trading strategist with some 20 years of managerial and entrepreneurial experience as a founder and serial investor in ICT and tech companies with several successful exits under his belt. Nikke holds a BSc in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Helsinki School of Economics. He is also a co-founder of Streamr Network AG.
David Crosbie
Strategic Advisor
For 20+ years David has advised multilateral development banks (World Bank, IFC, EIB, EBRD, ADB), the UN, national governments and civil society organisations in 40+ countries to deliver social and environmental safeguards, poverty reduction and climate mitigation, often in the context of fragile or small island developing states or rapid urbanisation. He’s the founder of Penumbra, Senior Advisor for the UN, and ADB Team Leader for delivering $600m climate-resilient affordable housing in Mongolia. He also devises social and environmental frameworks for a bilateral agency.
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