1.3.1. Core Team

Robert Haastrup-Timmi: Chief Visionary Officer and Director For BlockchainCompany Ltd, August 2016 to present.

Robert is a serial start-up entrepreneur with a long track record in founding and scaling innovative media and digital asset SME's. Upon dropping out of University, he was employed as a Senior Prime Broker in Macro Hedge Funds, at Merrill Lynch in London, before venturing to Macromedia in San Francisco with the position of Equity Compensation Analyst that gave Robert significant exposure and understanding on how large companies are built in Silicon Valley. Whilst working at Macromedia, he launched Blackworld.com, a media and technology platform aiming to connect the world with Africa in early web 1.0. (before the dot com crash, Blackworld was in a potential acquisition deal with Nedbank South Africa).

The site which remains a hobby of Robert’s, has run media campaigns for Fortune 500 Companies such as Motorola, IBM, the US Army and Disney World to mention a few, during the pre to post dot com crash. Blackworld helped Citi Bank during web 1.0 acquire 40,000 new applications for its personal loans program digitally. You can trace Blackworld’s development graph, through the archive web, to observe how Robert gained his understanding of how to develop media and technology environments.

Robert is passionate about new technologies and likes to follow trends in the future of artificial intelligence and progress towards the technological ‘singularity’. He also writes his perspectives on several matters concerning our world on his LinkedIn page. Robert will be responsible for the overall strategic vision and project management in the development phase, representing the company in public events and making managerial decisions on the company strategies to follow.

His complete curriculum is available on this link.

Barbara Hayles: Company Secretary & Human Resources Officer For BlockchainCompany Ltd 2017 - present.

Barbara Hayles is the Company Secretary for BlockchainCompany Ltd, the 100% Holding Company of BlockchainValley PTY Ltd. (South Africa) and Blockchain Valley SAS. Barbara has over two decades of Accounting and Administrative professionalism, working for top companies such as Reuters in the United States, Law Firms, Non Profit Organisations and Governmental Institutions such as Her Majesty’s Home Office in the United Kingdom. Barbara works closely with the Company ́s Chartered Accountancy Acer Accounts Ltd, to ensure all Statutory Bookkeeping and Annual Accounts subject to Her Majesty’s Revenue Service, are duly organised, kept and submitted. Barbara together with our company chartered accountant, also administers human resources, monthly employee compensation and equity related compensation.

Her complete curriculum is available on this link.

Francisco J. Gimeno Perez: Chief Brand Generalist For BlockchainCompany Ltd ,

September 2017 – present.

Francisco studied Philosophy (BA) at the University of Deusto, Bilbao Bizkaia. He has extensive experience as an educator (2000-2011, UN and International School of Tanganyika) and entrepreneur in East Africa (2006-2017, Director at IBEROTAN). As a generalist, his work in Blockchain Company is to make investors, members of the present team, and in the future the different company’s departments, understand the mission, vision and work of the company focusing on connections and interactions. Once the company has grown in staff and scope, he will take charge of the internal branding, including investors and company advisers. Interested in all digital novelties and blockchain since 2017, and long-standing proponent of an African Renaissance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He sees BlockchainValley as a focal point to raise awareness about the deep disruptive changes brought by the blockchain and other technologies in Africa and globally.

At BlockchainValley he is the Chief Anti-Money-Laundering Officer and will be reporting officer and Tracfin declarant. He was chosen based on his professional skills and representation on www.blockchaincompany.info, his attention to details as well as experience as business consultant at IBEROTAN. He was involved during the entire KYC/AML procedure drafting process and will be trained again by Kroll before the Offer. Within IBEROTAN, he was in charge from 2006 to 2016 of certifying that all documentation related to, but not only, contracts, bank accounts and bank guarantees, business and companies certificates to determine if they were valid and true or not.

This made him very knowledgeable of how scammers and fraudsters work, how to trace and understand legal or illegal sources of money, so that IBEROTAN Ltd could advice its clients on the legality or not of the prospective deals or business transactions they wanted to do, IBEROTAN LTD, through FRANCISCO JAVIER GIMENO, and with legal advice, wrote reports for customers indicating each and every aspect of the laws and regulations involved, the risks, and other points which could influence the success or not of the business or deal, finishing with general and particular advises plus a reasoned conclusion on the whole issue. His complete curriculum is available on this link.

Bernadine Louis: Head of South African Operations For BlockchainCompany Ltd, February 2018 – present.

Bernadine has vast experience in operations management and project coordination (GoCape.com, Henderson Group, Idwala Projects). She is the first point of contact for BlockchainValley in South Africa due to her knowledge about the country. Actively involved in the company’s set-up in Cape Town, she manages all communications and prepares key negotiations with local stakeholders, such as banks, consulting groups, real estate agencies and designers. Bernadine has swiftly recognized the potential of the BlockchainValley and decided to get involved early to make her positive contributions to the project’s development. Her complete curriculum is available on this link.

Samuel Santos: Chief Executive of Strategic Sales & Growth Marketing For BlockchainCompany Ltd , April 2018 – present.

Samuel studied Marketing and Design at the Instituto Tecnológico Lourtec in Caracas. He is a social marketing and design professional who has worked in several start-up companies and agencies (Vreasy, Sunshine. Ex, Data Hub). Passionate about developing products, systems, and working with people dedicated to building flat organizations, driven by a desire to find game-changing brands that improve consumers’ lives. Before joining Blockchain Company, he spent the past three years working with start-ups in Spain, Greece and Italy, primarily focusing on growth marketing strategies. Samuel is thrilled to work for the future of blockchain technologies and loves working at the forefront of innovation. Samuel will focus on digital growth hacking and business development. His complete curriculum is available on this link.