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With 20+ years of experience in digital transformation, venture building, and corporate innovation — including scaling an award-winning venture from 0 to acquisition — I bring practical insight, leadership depth, and a founder’s mindset to every engagement.

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Early-stage VC | Angel | Onchain Finance

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Passionate about innovating credit for consumers through credit education and financial inclusion. A leader with experience in P&L ownership, credit scoring, product management, comparison/aggregation and e-commerce services. Delivering great products, through highly driven and motivated product, technology and commercial teams within the online, aggregator and financial services sector.

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International banking and finance executive with 20+ years of experience in relationship management, strategy, M&A, fundraising, capital markets, business development, and project management. Proven track record as a general manager driving business growth and executing strategic roadmaps in the US, UK, Middle East, and Asia. Extensive CXO engagements internally and externally with clients, regulators and investors in Tech, Banking and Payments.

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Kenneth Bok is Venture Building Lead at Standard Chartered Ventures, where he drives the growth of SCV's digital asset ecosystem by supporting ventures in business development, partnerships, and strategy. He is the author of Decentralizing Finance, a handbook on DeFi and Digital Assets for industry professionals. Previously, he was Managing Director of Blocks Pte Ltd, a DeFi advisory firm based in Singapore that conducted research on the digital asset ecosystem and guided startups and finance professionals. He also served as Head of Growth and Strategy at Zilliqa, where he drove ecosystem expansion and business development. Kenneth began his career as an equities trader at Goldman Sachs. Since 2014, he has invested in digital assets, particularly Layer 1 blockchains such as Ethereum at the seed stage. He is a frequent speaker at technology events, contributes to industry platforms, and has been featured in leading outlets including CNBC, Euromoney, and Business Times. Kenneth holds an M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College and an M.A. in Philosophy from CIIS. Learn more at kennethbok.com. All views are his own.

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CORE EXPERTISE Board level experience as a respectful challenger, Audit and Risk committees. Well rounded Finance and Banking professional with a foundation on Wall Street and a diversity of experience on 3 continents combining the confluence of Capital Markets, Interest Rate, FX, Credit, Market Risk Management, Accounting, Corporate and Structured Finance, Treasury, Credit, Origination, Private Equity, Alco, Compliance, Analytics and Systems and Customer facing work at the C-level. Credible with senior most levels at clients and internally. Managed digital transformation and innovation and cloud based operations for FS. Have been in roles as Global Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer and Head of Risk Management Advisory. ADDED DIMENSIONS Curator of FinTech businesses for the Singapore FinTech Festival. Financial planning, cross border expansion and the internal control and risk management frameworks of those organizations at the board level, investor road show planning and execution; designed delivery of strategic planning and growth in all facets. Managed large staff counts of 50+. SPECIALTIES  Capital Optimization and recycling of Capital  Credit Analysis  Credit and interest rate, fx derivative Structuring  Finance Transformation  Risk focused Systems Analytics  Data Analytics  Digital Innovation  Digital Transformation  Cloud based operational migration  FTP, International Tax based solutions  EVA applications with Corporate Finance MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS  Helped establish the SGD bond market  Managed the largest Shari'ah compliant REIT listing in the world as CFO  Developed the most innovative Islamic interest rate hedging structure  Helped draft the Business Trust Act of Singapore and the 1st transaction there under- SPPA  Designed the largest GTC in Dubai  Organized the inaugural SGD bond conference and first Middle East Bond Conference.  Executed the largest SGD bond LANGUAGES Native English and French speaker who is also fluent in Spanish, conversational Mandarin & Cantonese and Arabic. Specialties: Capital Optimization and recycling of Capital, International Credit structuring International FTP, Tax based solution

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Old-school investment banker trying to learn new tricks in the fintech world.

Mariana de Win Tricolici

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Senior executive and tech entrepreneur with a background in banking and fintech. A proven leader across geographies, offering expertise in advancing digital ecosystems, developing successful growth strategies and building teams to launch new products and enter new markets. Effectively manages key stakeholder relationships and P&Ls on multi-million dollar, multi-product lines of business. Fintech, Ecosystems, Innovation, Strategy, Stakeholder Management, Drive P&L Growth, Strategic Communication, Innovation Management, Digital Marketing, Leveraged Finance, Segmentation & Campaign Management, Product Development, Planning & Execution

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Investment Director - Crypto & Digital Assets

Benedicte N. Nolens

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Fintech, Digital money and Green finance - all opinions are my own, reposts are not endorsements