5+ years entrepreneurial experience in end-to-end scaling of commerce: e-commerce, digital marketing, and media buying, supply chain
Built infrastructure for $500M+ brands
Active investor in blockchain projects
Former Sergeant at Elite Forces, Swiss Army
Advisor to a dozen direct-to-consumer brands (from six- to nine-digit revenue)
Strong experience in process optimization at Swiss certification company
Economics at Fribourg University (CH)
Roy Bernheim
Chief Executive Offer
8+ years entrepreneurial experience in branding, omnichannel market expansion and venture acceleration
5+ years experience in the blockchain space and international tokenization projects (since 2016)
Previously built the E-Commerce Own Brands department for a stock-listed CPG company
Closed $150m+, 15-years licensing deal for Asia Pacific with Procter & Gamble HQ
Formerly Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer at large-scale marketing distribution company (>30,000 FTEs)
Digital Marketing at Columbia University (US)
Economics at UCL and LSE (UK)
Thabelo Mbgeni
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
15+ years as full stack and backend engineer
8+ years as architect focused on hyper dynamic and secure environments, i.e. gaming and finance
3+ years experience in developing blockchain-based solutions in high security environment, i.e. financen
Former CTO of AI-powered conversational chatbots company for financial institutions
Former Lead Developer at betting and gaming technology company
Computer Science at University of the Western Cape
Notable Backers
Nicolas Bürer
SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR AND INVESTOR
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Serial entrepreneur, investor and highly connected in the tech and startup scene
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Managing Director of digitalswitzerland
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Angel of the Year 2018
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Co-Founder of MOVU and former CRO and CMO at deindeal.ch, a leading e-commerce player in Switzerland
Omar Dhalla
Multi-platform venture investor
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Actively immersed in development of emerging technology and e-commerce businesses, with deep expertise in the areas of venture development, strategy, and go-to-market as both an operator and investor
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Co-Founder of Crypto Fund
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Alum @ Accenture & McKinsey
Adrian Keller
INVESTOR AND PUBLIC MARKETS LEADER
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Chairman of DKSH Holding AG from 2004 to 2020 and Honorary Chairman since, a SIX-listed company with over CHF 11bn revenue
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Over 20 years on Wall street including Partnership in a NASD broker firm and a private investment firm
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Executive Board Member of Swiss American Foundation
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Executive Board Member of Swiss American Foundation
Harald Philipp
INVENTOR AND TECH INVESTOR
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Electronic engineer and entrepreneur with over 90 patents primarily in the field of electronic sensors (touch controls and touch screens) that revolutionized the mobile phone industry starting with the iPhone but also virtually everything produced today that uses touch technology.
Bruno Sidler
GLobal BRAND EXPANSION LEADER
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Member of the Board of Nasdaq listed SPAC Logistics Innovation Technology (LITT)
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Senior Advisor to 8VC a leading U.S. Venture Capital firm
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Member of the Advisory Board of Scan Global Logistics
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Former President of the Regional Advisory Board of the Swiss National Bank
Kai Ming Lau
Luxury retail digitalization leader
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Senior executive with 10+ years experience in ecommerce, retail, M&A and distribution
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Highly connected in ecommerce, supply chain and manufacturing
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Director, Digital Strategy at DFS Group
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Former Head Ecommerce Greater China, DKSH
Ken Bernheim
TOKENIZED ASSETS REGULATORY LEADER
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Co-Lead of Institutional Services & Products and Tokenization Projects (Crypto Solutions) at Bitcoin Suisse
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Expert Committee Member at CMTA, the independent standatization body for tokenized securities Worked in various crypto related companies since 2017
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Master in Law from the University of Zurich
Florian Smeritschnig
Top-tier management consulting and entrepreneurship IN BlocKCHAIN SPACE
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Blockchain and crypto advisor for banks, fintechs, HNWI, and top-tier consulting firms
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Former Business Development with Bitpanda leading the deployment of BEST tokenomics and strategy
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Former Senior Consultant at McKinsey
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Ph.D. in Business Administration (Business Model Design)