Company Info for oceanprotocol.com | IcebreakerMembers
Technology sector professional with over 15 years of experience in startups | Singapore PR
Seasoned sales professional with leadership experience gained within the technology space across Europe and Asia. Driven by entrepreneurial values of constant innovation, strong ownership and solution finding.
Tags:
DeFi, Decentralised Finance, Invoicing, Accounting, DAO, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Blockchain, Digital Assets, dApps, Tokens, ICO, STO, TGE, Crypto,
Growth Marketing, Adtech, Attribution, Tracking, Mobile marketing, App marketing, Ad exchange, Real Time Bidding (RTB), Supply Side Platform (SSP), Demand Side Platform (DSP), Mobile Measurement Partner (MMP), Programmatic, Funnel measurement, Landing Page Optimisation, Data Querying, User Acquisition, User Retention, Retargeting, Retention, LTV, ROI, CPM, CPL, CPA 
I currently serve as Assistant General Counsel, Onshore of energyRe, LLC, a leading independent clean energy company. energyRe's founding investors include principals of Related Companies, one of the nation's most prominent privately-owned real estate firms and one of the country's largest creators and preservationists of affordable housing. energyRe through it's partnership between The New York Power Authority (NYPA) and Invenergy are partners behind our Clean Path New York Project. This $11 billion infrastructure project will enable the delivery of more than 7.5 million megawatt-hours of emissions-free energy into New York City every year.
energyRe, acquired majority ownership of Southern Current LLC, a US nationwide developer of utility scale solar and battery storage projects where I was a partner and General Counsel. We developed and sold over 900 MW of solar capacity, including over 97 projects in the last 4+ years. We currently have an active portfolio of approximately 10,100 MWs late stage assets along with 4,850 MWs of early stage assets.
Prior to energyRe and Southern Current, I served as Deputy General Counsel and Principal at FLS Energy (now Cypress Creek Renewables, LLC). During my active tenure at FLS, I helped transition the company from a solar thermal and residential installer/asset owner and was instrumental in growing FLS from $2 million to over $300 million in annual revenue and facilitated the origination and execution of approximately $1 billion in project and corporate finance. Developed over 70 solar projects comprising 5,900 MWs total. My key role was leading the company's green field development efforts as well the efforts related to the acquisition and further development of 15 portfolios.
Commercial Real Estate experience involves advising Fortune 400 companies, lenders, REITs and Big Box retail in multiple aspects of the development process, from environmental compliance to zoning.
Web3 Degen (Building on Base)
Renewable Energy Development
Solar Project Development
Blockchain Technology/Data
NFT Creation
DAO governance
Environmental Due Diligence
Metaverse Development; Upland
Burning Man (Five times, camp placement coordinator/entrepreneur wrangler)
Commercial Real Estate Development
Tolenized Real World Assets
Cannabis Regulation
Purchases, Lease and Easements
Land Use Law
Zoning
Third Generation Cryptocurrency ("alts")
Sustainability
Bar Admissions: District of Columbia (Active); Georgia (Inactive); U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 
I am an expert in Web3, AI, and data, and a passionate mentor and innovator. With over 15 years of experience as a founder, CTO, and investor, I focus on commercialising innovative solutions for the data economy. I have a track record of delivering value for investors, clients, and teams in Europe, Switzerland, and India, across various industries such as telecommunications, IT, and finance.
Currently, I am the Director of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and Tokenisation at Citi, where I lead the blockchain and assets tokenization strategy for Securities Services. I am also the Founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data exchange protocol that unlocks data for AI, using state-of-the-art blockchain technologies. My mission is to enable a $2-5 trillion data sharing economy that guarantees control, privacy, security, compliance, and pricing of data. My specialties include entrepreneurship, technology start-up bootstrapping, product management, business development, technology transfer, and commercialisation of technology. 
Passions: bleeding edge tech, self sovereignty and public utility networks
- Working for Ocean Protocol / BigchainDB / ascribe.io [Blockchain, planetary scale, crypto, machine learning.]
- As a co-chair of the Interledger community I am looking forward to the network explosion of blockchains...
- As a professional in machine learning, physical simulations and model reduction, I am passionate about the prediction of processes and physical systems in industrial environments:
- Together with some technical experts and business-enthousiasts, we've launched an applied-math consultancy company, called Sydelity, for optimizing your chip-design flows from requirement to measurement. [ML, model reduction, modeling, optimization]
My Bio: I was born in Rumst, Belgium in 1984 and received the M.S. degree ('08) and the Ph.D degree ('13) both in microelectronic engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, KULeuven, Belgium.
After finishing my PhD on applied machine learning to micro-electronics, I co-founded ascribe for intellectual property on the blockchain.
Currently, I am working as application director in BigchainDB, merging big data with blockchain as well as a researcher with the Ocean Protocol for bootstrapping data marketplaces.
I am also a co-chair of the W3C Interledger community, a blockchain interoperability protocol.
I am a highly personable, collaborative, and strategic leader with over 15 years of experience in legal, financial, business development, and technology operational roles.
👩🏻💻Over the past eight years, I have focused on working in reg-tech companies, specializing in regulatory markets with a strong emphasis on compliance and security. Within this realm, I have gained extensive professional experience in the identity verification space, particularly in automated Know Your Customer (KYC) processes and compliance in fin-tech.
My expertise and proficiency in this field have been widely recognized, leading to invitations to speak at prestigious conferences worldwide.
📣 Notable Speaking Engagements:
• Panelist at the 8th National Compliance & AML conference in Poland,
• Webinar: eliminating Bad Actors in Crypto
• Panelist at Arab Federation of Capital Market in Bahrain, "Enhancing Customer
Experience by automated KYC and On-boarding"
• Podcast in Crypto talks" Biggest challenges that authentication is facing in the
crypto industry".
• Panelist at Adyen Annual Conference" Data Protection"
• Panelist at: Swiss-Polish Blockchain Association
• Forbes Author of Article: "why KYC is One of The Keys to Crypto's".
🤝My contributions to the industry, coupled with my deep knowledge of regulatory requirements, have positioned me as a trusted expert in KYC. I am committed to leveraging this expertise to drive compliance excellence, enhance customer experiences, and foster growth within organizations.
At my current job, I am responsible for:
➡️overseeing all IDV digital solutions, specializing in highly regulated environments such as banks, wealth management, insurance, and investment platforms.
➡️leading the development of the Compliance Dashboard, a cutting-edge innovation that exceeds compliance requirements while streamlining onboarding processes. 
