Stronger Advisory Team with Vast Experience
At FundYourselfNow, we constantly seek to strengthen and enhance our product to meet the needs of our investors and the cryptocurrency community. Our purpose of developing FundYourselfNow is to achieve the mission of making crypto-crowdfunding mainstream and to create an ecosystem for project creators, backers and helpers with enhanced accountability that is currently lacking in crowdfunding platforms.
We are happy to share that as part of strengthening our product outreach and usability, we will be working with 3new members on the FYN Advisory team:
Emily Hwang: Founder, Couturissimo
Dana Coe: Founder of Bitlox
Kui Nakamura: Managing Director, Azura Group
Emily is integral to our strategy to reach out the mainstream consumers on the benefits of crypto-crowdfunding. Through their influence and reach in the entertainment and fashion industries, we will be able to spread information on FYN and upcoming projects through mainstream media channels.
This means that it will not be long before you start hearing about an FYN project via a tweet from a celebrity or influencer that follow on twitter or instagram!
To make crowdfunding mainstream, we need to provide users an easy and secure way to manage their tokens and crypto-currency, without having to remember multiple passwords and figuring out how to use online wallets (myetherwallet.com is hard for people like my parents – just saying).
We are happt to have Dana Coe, Founder of Bitlox, on board our Advisory team. Bitlox creates crypto-currency hardware wallets that have become increasingly popular lately due to the rise in number of hacking incidents. Our eventual goal is to develop something similar to the famous amazon “1-click” buy now button.
By connecting your wallet to FYN, and clicking on the contribute button, the crypto-currency is deducted from your wallet automatically and tokens and transferred over, without any manual intervention in between.
From the recently successfully closed crowdsale such as BAT, there has been extremely strong institutional interest/private investors interest, where contributions of 1 million USD or higher are common.
We are planning to support good FYN projects by linking them up with potential private/institution contributors at the pre-sales stage. This benefits project creators since they will have a guaranteed funding amount, plus allowing them to build up initial momentum for their project. In this regard, we are glad to have Kui Nakamura on board. Kui is a professional hedge fund manager with connections to private investors and institutions who could potentially be interested in contributing funds to the project.
With the added expertise of the new members on our Advisory team, we strongly believe that we are better position to achieve our vision. Let us know what you think on our slack or telegram chat!
Warmest Regards,
Kenneth
COO, FundYourselfNow
Advisor Profiles
Emily Hwang, Founder, Couturissmo
Emily is a fashion and real eatate entrepreneur. She has vast experience in the fashion industry, and runs one of Asia’s leading online fashion portal, Couturissimo. She serves as the Vice President Asian Couture Federation and sits on the Governor Council of Fashion Designers of Korea. Previously, she served as the Singapore CEO of a famous German Luxury Brand, MCM.
Emily recently diversified her business to actively invest in fashion brands and couture houses. Apart from her investment in the retail industry, her company has long been involved with real estate development and the management of luxury properties internationally.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-hwang-36bb2a29
Courtissmo: https://www.couturissimo.com/
Dana Coe, Founder of Bitlox
Dana L. Coe is a pioneer in the cryptocurrency security sphere and has been involved with Bitcoin since 2013. He was a part of the first wave of internet start-ups in the early 2000s, and this gives Mr. Coe a unique insight into business strategies and how to frame the discussion as to what direction a company should move in. Trained in Germany as an engineer, his background in scientific equipment manufacture influenced his design of the BitLox cryptocurrency hardware wallet. As part of our advisory team, Mr Coe will advise on on strategies on making crypto-currency crowdfunding mainstream, such as providing users with a safe, easy to use hardware wallet that they can use to store project tokens/cryptocurrency when investing via the fundyourselfnow platform.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dana-coe-a7a78b4/
Kui Nakamura, Manager Director, Azura Group
As the Managing Director of Azura Group, Mr. Nakamura has a rich and diverse portfolio of cross industry investment experiences spanning the mining, energy, real estate and hospitality sectors.
Mr. Nakamura currently serves on the Government Investment Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan chaired by the Prime Minister and works closely with several development-finance institutions and export-import agencies to bring foreign direct investment to the region. Previously, Mr. Nakamura was Executive Partner with Siris Capital Group, managing $2.5 billion of private equity funds and investments and its predecessor group managing the private equity holdings of Point 72 Asset Management, the $14 billion family office (formerly SAC Capital Advisors).
His wealth of experience in private equity, trading and corporate finance enabled him to successfully raise billions of dollars of funds for governments and banks around the world, and advised over $9 billion worth of trading and investment transactions.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kui-nakamura-b52b1a3/
