Who are our advisors?

In addition to a killer core team, with different expertise fields and from all over the globe, we also have a parallel team of professionals pointing us in the right direction. We benefit from their background and ideas, they give us hints so we can put our eggs in the right basket… and our hard work in the right objectives.

But who are these people?

Giuseppe Ballochi

• Superporwer: Overlay strategies
• Currently: Dr. Ballocchi is a member of the Board of Governors of CFA Institute, where he chairs the Audit and Risk Committee. He also serves as a foreign exchange advisor to a microfinance fund lectures at the University of Lausanne.
• Background: He was head of financial engineering and risk analytics at Pictet & Cie, chief investment officer at Olsen Ltd, a fixed-income manager at the Asian Development Bank in Manila and a high-energy physicist at CERN. Dr. Ballocchi is a past president of the CFA Society of Switzerland. He holds a laurea (MS) in physics, an MBA and a PhD in high-energy physics. He is the author of more than 30 academic publications in physics and finance and a frequent speaker at a number of international conferences.

William Mougayar

• Superpower: Blockchain Business
• Currently: William is the General Partner at Virtual Capital Ventures and a member on the Board of Directors of OB1, the OpenBazaar open source protocol that is pioneering decentralized peer-to-peer commerce, a Board Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation, a member of OMERS Ventures Board of Advisors, an Advisory Board member to the Coin Center and Bloq, and founder of Startup Management.
• Background: He held senior level positions at Hewlett-Packard, Cognizant and Aberdeen Group, and he founded 3 startups: CYBER, Eqentia, and Engagio. William is a graduate of the University of Washington, the University of Western Ontario Ivey School of Business, and attended the University of British Columbia Graduate Commerce School.

William Mougayar has been described as the most sophisticated blockchain business thinker. His views and insights are well respected worldwide.

Anuj Khanna

• Superpower: Fintech and Crypto
• Currently: Anuj is a highly respected Fintech industry influencer and expert in crypto currencies. His office is in London but he works on projects across the world, mostly in California and Europe but also in India, China, SE Asia, LATAM and Africa. He is highly recognised and recommended as a business visionary and peak performance expert by several global CEO’s and entrepreneurs.
• Background: For the past two decades, Anuj has been helping over 50 financial technology, mobile applications and telecom businesses in 80 countries. He completed his MBA in Marketing from The University of Sheffield and is an Economics graduate from the University of Mumbai.

Kevin Tholke

• Superpower: Payments, cards and mobile banking
• Currently: Kevin is a skilled general manager who has worked in strategy and business development roles for several FinTech companies. Right now he is Senior Vice President and Group Head of real estate payments at KeyBank, one of the largest banks in the United States.
• Background: He consulted for Globcoin leading up to the launch of the multi-currency prepaid account in 2016, providing strategy and operations consulting. He was previously a Director for the prepaid business unit at Green Dot Corporation, a leading US-based prepaid company. He was Senior Vice President of strategy and business development for a Swiss mobile payments startup.

Kevin is passionate about commercializing innovative technologies and solutions.

Heiner Hartwich

Superpower: Private Banking

Currently: With over 25 years of international experience in successfully building private banking and family office entities for reputable banks, Heiner specialises in creating strategic alliances. He has lived in the US, Singapore, Japan, the UK and Europe.

His extensive networks prove very valuable in cross-border and cross-continental facilitation activities.

Together, we are all creating the CryptoPlatform GCP that’s going to cover the needs of the global village. Learn more at www.globcoin.io

Written by: Eva — Globcoin Community Manager