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.

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.

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.

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.