Meet Cyrus Fazel : Swissborg CEO
An introduction to the Swissborg Team
Being originally Iranian and Swiss-German and having lived in the US, France, Eastern Europe and Switzerland, I am spiritually connected to many places. I am also fascinated by decentralized new trends that will make this a better world for all of us.
Meeting with Pac-Man and Mario Bros: digitalization
Born and raised in New York and the San Francisco area, I was able to quickly learn and understand all about capital markets and technology. Being part of the 80s generation, I was deeply in love with everything digital, and was constantly playing Atari and Nintendo video games. Back then, we were all hoping that flying cars would emerge and we understood that technology would change everything and take over the world.
Meeting with Napster the hacker
In 2000 I was madly into Breakdancing and Hip Hop, but it was impossible to find CDs and mixtapes in France. Once again, technology brought us the solution: first the peer to peer music platform Napster emerged and change our lives. Going forward, everything that we needed like videos, music, books, and programs were now available with a minimum of hacking knowledge through the second generation of P2P programs like Kazaa and Gnutella.
Meeting with the fancy Private Banker
After working in Eastern Europe, I wanted to gain exposure to financial markets and so I moved to the heart of Private Banking in Geneva, Switzerland. While working for the Ultra-High net worth individuals, it was clear to me that customization and excellency were a must have in today’s world. However, I felt that I was not helping the mass and technology was missing.
Meeting with the Algo trader: automation
Managing investment mandates was a strong passion, but I’ve realized that to be efficient you need a vast amount of resources (team, data, systems) or some kind of way to automate tasks. Therefore, I was lucky enough to work with the very best Systematic Hedge funds such as FORT LP. The principles were to master the full investment spectrum with automation and optimization (analyzing the market data, portfolio management, trading and risk management) with self-learning algorithms. We had some great years, outperforming the market and completely uncorrelated showing that Artificial Intelligence would soon take over the investment management industry.
Creating a CyBorg advisor: Accessibility, decentralization and trust
My quantitative investment experience, along with my strong passion of peer to peer programs made me realize that we had to create SwissBorg, a unique CyBorg Advisor investment platform. Our goal was to bring Maas (mandate as a service) to the masses. By doing so, we could offer tailor-made investment mandates by combining investors’ best choice (investment universe and risk) with self-learning algorithms. After two successful years, we realized that once again, we were facing the same issue: we could only advise High-net worth individuals and institutional clients.
Holding Bitcoins for some time and getting more familiar with smart-contracts, we finally realized that the solution was lying there. Blockchain would enable us to have the maximum reach and accessibility we required where Tokens would enable us to create any tailor-made investment mandate with no cost and intermediaries. And on top of this, we could leverage a strong community with decentralization based on a trusted meritocratic system.
Today, at SwissBorg I am glad to share that we are about to reshape the financial industry, by creating the world’s number one wealth management ecosystem. So, join us in building a new era of Swiss wealth management with smart contracts.
-Cyrus from SwissBorg
