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Engagement model
Our roles & activities
Company Flyer
Invest
Advisory
Interim Management
Market Entry, Scaling
FinTech Ecoystem
Startups & Incumbents
Domestic Japan, APAC, Europe
Community Building
Tokyo FinTech Meetup
IOTA Meetups across Japan
Academic Interests
New York University SPS, Tokyo Campus – FinTech Class
LUMSA Università, Rome – Master in FinTech & Innovation
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Credentials
Public roles
Company Flyer
Title
Advisors to Hero Token
PawnHero Group operates a digital pawn shop in the Phillippines
During February 2018, raised USD 35+ through an ICO for the Hero Origen Token
Building a micro-lending platform to support financial inclusion in South-East Asia
Mentor at SuperCharger Hong Kong
Asia’s leading FinTech accelerator
Supporting startups with industry, i.e. capital markets, expertise and connectivity
Alumni include Gatecoin, KYC-Chain, and MyFinB, among others
Advisors to Advanced Blockchain AG
First publicly listed (ISIN DE000A0M93V6) distributed ledger company in Germany
Software engineering, consultancy and research for leading industrial companies
Advising on strategy, capital structure, operating model, global client introductions
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Credentials
Public roles
Company Flyer
Founders of Tokyo FinTech Meetup
Largest and most active community in Tokyo covering broadly the FinTech domain
Rapid growth from starting in June 2018 to currently 1,200+ members
Additional ownership of IOTA Meetups across Japan
New York University, School of Professional Studies, Tokyo Campus
FinTech and the Future of Finance
Developed and taught the first FinTech-focused professional development course
15 hours covering ecosystems, distributed ledgers, crypto-currencies, etc.
LUMSA Università, Rome
Master in FinTech & Innovation (under development, launch October 2018)
Member of Scientific Committee, member of global experts contributors
One year, fully academically accredited masters program
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Team
Maurizio Raffone
Maurizio has 20 years of international finance
experience, with expertise in credit
derivatives, structured finance and fund
management. Maurizio’s most recent roles
were as Managing Director at UniCredit Bank
AG, the investment banking arm of UniCredit
SpA, and as Partner at TriSpan LLP, an asset
management firm based in London, where he
was co-Chief Investment Officer of TriSpan’s
global macro fund.
Maurizio is a mentor at SuperCharger, a
leading accelerator in Asia, an advisor to
AdvisingAsia, a consulting firm in Bangkok,
and is a scientific committee member for
LUMSA University’s Master in FinTech &
Innovation.
Norbert Gehrke
Norbert is an active investor and advisor in the
fintech ecosystem, assisting start-ups and
incumbents to apply transformative techno-
logies. He has held various leadership roles in
financial services, with strong focus on capital
markets, in New York, London and Tokyo, as a
Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and at
Barclays Investment Bank, as well as a
consultant.
Norbert is also the founder of the Tokyo
FinTech Meetup, a community of 1,100+
individuals, part of the IOTA Evangelist
Network, and an Adjunct Lecturer at New York
University SPS, Tokyo Campus.
Company Flyer
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