☰
Download Wallet
×
Concordium brings together world-class cryptographic researchers, outstanding software engineers, and business leaders with global enterprise experience across multiple disciplines and industries. Thanks to this unique mix of competencies and backgrounds, the women and men of Concordium together thrive to enable the bridge between science, development, and day-to-day usage.
The Concordium Foundation board consists of our founders and highly reputed professionals
CHAIRMAN
BANKING CIRCLE
FORMER CFO
BOARD MEMBER AND ADVISOR
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, MEMO.LAW
PROFESSOR, ETH ZURICH
Concordium Foundation’s advisory board is made up of highly esteemed experts and leaders of influential organizations and universities including NASDAQ, Mastercard and ETH.
FORMER VICE-CHAIR OF NASDAQ AND FCSE CHAIR
FORMER SKYPE COO
ADVISOR
EVP, GLOBAL STRATEGY AND SOLUTIONS, MASTERCARD
PROFESSOR, ETH ZURICH
The commercial and operational team at Concordium consists of business leaders with global enterprise experience across multiple disciplines and industries.
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
HEAD OF BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
CHIEF OF OPERATIONS
CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
STUDENT ANALYST
PROJECT MANAGER
ADMINISTRATION MANAGER
COMMUNITY MANAGER
COMMUNITY MANAGER
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
STUDENT ANALYST
MARKETING CONSULTANT
AFRICA LEAD
GENERAL COUNSEL
BLOCKCHAIN SOLUTIONS ANALYST
STUDENT ANALYST
ACCOUNTING MANAGER
JAPAN LEAD
SENIOR BUSINESS SOLUTIONS MANAGER
SPANISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES LEAD
STUDENT ANALYST
Director
STUDENT ANALYST
COMMUNITY MANAGER
HEAD OF PEOPLE & ORGANISATION
STUDENT ANALYST
INDIA LEAD
COMMUNITY MANAGER
REGIONAL COUNTRY LEAD
COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
COMMUNITY MANAGER
SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE COMMERCIAL TEAM
STUDENT ANALYST
COMMUNITY MANAGER
STUDENT ANALYST
Concordium has a team of outstanding software engineers, cryptographers and researchers unlocking technological advances.
STAFF ENGINEER
IT ENGINEER
PRODUCT MANAGER II
SENIOR MANAGER
TECHNICAL WRITER
SENIOR ENGINEER
ENGINEER
SENIOR ENGINEER
ENGINEER
TECH LEAD MANAGER II
SENIOR ENGINEER
SENIOR UX DESIGNER
ENGINEER
TEST ENGINEER II
SENIOR ENGINEER
ENGINEERING INTERN
PRODUCT MANAGER III
TEST ENGINEER
DIRECTOR
SENIOR SRE
ENGINEER II
ENGINEER
STAFF ENGINEER
ENGINEER II
TECH SUPPORTER
DIRECTOR
SENIOR UX DESIGNER
STAFF CYBER SECURITY ENGINEER
TEST ENGINEER
FRONT END DEVELOPER
Concordium has a team of outstanding software engineers, cryptographers and researchers unlocking technological advances
SENIOR SCIENTIST
SENIOR SCIENTIST
TECH LEAD MANAGER
SENIOR SCIENTIST
SCIENTIST II
PROFESSOR, ETH ZURICH
The Concordium Foundation has provided grants to the Concordium Blockchain Research Center Aarhus (COBRA), Aarhus University, to support research into blockchain technology.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
PHD STUDENT
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
PHD STUDENT
PHD STUDENT
The Concordium Foundation is also cooperating with the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich in the field of blockchain technology and in particular delegation and Staking in Proof-of-Stake Blockchains.
PROFESSOR, ETH ZURICH
PHD STUDENT
PHD STUDENT
IT University of Copenhagen is one of Denmark’s leading universities on IT research and education. Bernardo David, an ITU associate professor, collaborates closely with Concordium on consensus protocols and multiparty computation.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
PHD STUDENT
PHD STUDENT
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is India’s leading institution of advanced education and research in sciences and in engineering. IISc is now part of Concordium’ Academic Council, the academic relationship between Concordium and the Indian Institute of Science is led by Chaya Ganesh.
ASSISTING PROFESSOR AT INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
Simone Monnerat is a board member of the Concordium Foundation. She is an attorney-at-law and civil law notary and she works as partner at memo.law in Zug, Switzerland. She specializes in foundation, corporate and notarial law. Due to her profound expertise in Swiss foundation law and governance matters in particular together with her long standing interest in digitalization and technology she found herself immersed in different blockchain projects in the international melting pot of the Crypto Valley in Zug.
Bjørn Krog Andersen is a board member of the Concordium Foundation. He is the Head Compliance for Banking Circle, a fully licensed bank and financial infrastructure built for Payments businesses and Banks. He was a partner of the law firm Moalem, Weitemeyer and Bendtsen in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has extensive regulatory and compliance expertise and advises fintech, regtech and blockchain companies in his practice in addition to VC- and PE-related M&A work. Bjørn was General Counsel of Saxo Bank Group for six years, heading its legal, regulatory, and compliance departments globally. This expertise provided him with a deep understanding and insights into regulatory concerns and worldwide obligations within ID/KYC and investor protection related topics.
Ian Zhang is appointed as a Board member for Concordium AG and Concordium Foundation in October 2021. Previously, Ian served as the Group CFO of Polestar Automotive Group. During his three-year tenure, he accomplished the closing of initial fundings and global restructuring for Polestar, leading to the company’s listing on the NASDAQ. Ian has extensive corporate finance expertise in manufacturing business and a rich exposure in the fintech industry when he served as the Chairman of Saxo Bank’s Audit Committee. Ian was the Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Audit Executive of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group between 2014 and 2018, and before that, he oversaw risk assessment and internal control as the Vice President for Geely Automotive (HKEx 0175) since early 2010. Prior to joining Geely, Ian held various senior managerial positions in leading multinational companies, such as AlliedSignal, Robert Bosch GmbH and Praxair Inc. He received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1984 and an MBA degree in 1990.
Lars Seier Christensen is Chairman of the Swiss non-profit Concordium Foundation. With over 30 years of experience across the banking and financial sector, Seier Christensen is a global pioneer in FX and derivatives trading, having co-founded the online trading and investment platform Saxo Bank in 1992. He served as co-CEO of Saxo Bank for more than 20 years, in which time the bank grew to 1,500 employees across 150 locations serving customers in 170 countries. SaxoTrader, the bank’s flagship online trading offering, was launched in 1998 and was one of the first online FX trading platforms in the world. SaxoTrader has since grown to become one of the world’s most complete multi-asset trading platforms. Seier Christensen is also the founder and sole owner of Seier Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm which specializes in investments in angel, seed, and A-round stage companies. The firm invests in art & fashion, financial services, food and beverages, sports & entertainment, social media, and technology industries.
Professor Ueli Maurer is a Science Advisor and a Concordium Board Member. He serves as Professor of Computer Science and Head of the
Information Security and Cryptography Research Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), where his research interests include cryptography in both theory and applications, information security, theoretical computer science, information theory, and discrete mathematics. Maurer obtained his PhD in electrical engineering at ETH Zurich in 1990 and was subsequently a DIMACS Fellow at Princeton University. He is best known for his work on information-theoretic cryptography, the security analyses of the Diffie-Hellman protocol and the RSA system, inventing the indifferentiability concept, extended work on secure multi-party computation, developing a universal statistic test for random bit generators, and his work on constructive cryptography — a unified theory for cryptographic security proofs. He has been named a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2013, he received the Vodafone Innovation Award for Mobile Communications and in 2016 received the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics. Maurer also served as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Cryptology from 2002-2010.
Michael Jackson serves as an advisor to Concordium. Mr Jackson was the COO for Skype for the first four years, creating a €400Mio product line. Following this, and ten years as Partner in leading Venture Capital fund Mangrove Capital , Michael is deeply involved in the Crypto ecosystem. He was an early member of Bitcoin Foundation, member of the board of Blockchain.com, advisor to several projects and author of widely cited reports and comment pieces on the disruption of Asset Management and Private Equity by Distributed Ledger based blockchain. Michael also sits on the board of large, systemically regulated companies – AXA Insurance, Volvo Cars and Luminor Bank keeping day to day knowledge with current needs and trends of mission critical companies and technology. He is also a guest lecturer at University College London MBA on the Business of Telecoms
Hans-Ole Jochumsen serves as an advisor to Concordium. Mr. Jochumsen brings deep insights and expertise on regulatory issues relating to global exchanges and trading. Prior to Concordium, Mr. Jochumsen was the President and an executive member of OMX, which was acquired by Nasdaq in 2008. Mr. Jochumsen then spent 10 years in various executive positions at Nasdaq, eventually serving as President of Global Trading and Market Services from March 2014 and December 2016 and as European Vice Chairman from January 2017 until his retirement in 2018. Other previous positions include the Chairmanship of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) and President and CEO of Copenhagen Stock Exchange and FUTOP Clearing. Mr. Jochumsen is also currently a Board Member of Nykredit, the Chairman of Nordax Bank AB, and a Senior Advisor at Alkymi. Jochumsen holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Copenhagen.
Paul Docherty serves as an advisor to Concordium. Mr. Docherty was the Managing Director of Security Assessment and Application Security globally for Barclays Bank. Prior to which he ran the Security Advisory team for Cisco and was responsible for all Cisco security services focused on assessing, architecting, securing and implementing the strategies required to achieve a secure digital environment. Mr. Docherty has been intrinsically linked with many of the industry initiatives including founding and acting as chairman for the first seven years of CREST, the security industry’s association. Working with the Bank of England to help create CBEST, and forming, then acting as the inaugural chairman of SRIE (Security Researchers Information Exchange).
Peter Klein serves as an advisor to Concordium. Mr. Klein has over 20 years of leadership and business management experience in banking, technology, and fintech. He is currently leading Mastercard’s payment strategy focused on redefining MasterCard’s role and position in global non-card payments. Mr. Klein was previously President, Global Head of FX Payments at Earthport Plc, a world-leading fintech company specializing in low-value cross-border payments. Before shifting his focus to payments and fintech, Mr. Klein spent numerous years on the banking side, leading and growing global clearing, FX and prime brokerage businesses and teams at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan. He spent nine years with Citibank, establishing and running several of its high-growth electronic trading platform businesses across multiple regions including Scandinavia, Australia, and the UK. Mr. Klein holds a master degree in Management and Finance from Macquarie University, Sydney (2004).
Roger Wattenhofer serves as an advisor to Concordium. Mr. Wattenhofer is a full professor in the Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Department at ETH Zurich, where he also received his doctorate in Computer Science. He had stints at Brown University in Providence, RI and Microsoft Research in Redmond, WAbefore returning to ETH Zurich, originally as an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department. Wattenhofer’s research interests are in a variety of algorithmic and systems aspects in computer science and information technology, currently in particular wireline and wireless networks, distributed systems, and physical algorithms. He publishes in different communities: distributed computing, networking, and theory of computer science.
Lone Fønss Schrøder is a Board Member of the Concordium Foundation. With extensive executive experience ranging from large-cap companies in a broad range of industries and banks, Fønss Schrøder is Vice Chairman of Volvo Cars, Director at IKEA, Geely Sweden Holdings AB, Companies in the Aker Group, advisor for Service Now and former Senior Advisor at Credit Suisse. She spent 22 years in the top management at A.P. Moller-Maersk In 2005, she was appointed President of Wallenius Lines, a leading provider of global factory-to-dealer transport solutions and terminal facilities for the automotive industry. Fønss Schrøder holds a Master in Law (LLM) and Science and Blockchain Tech program at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Jørgen Hauglund is the CFO of Concordium and has extensive experience in the fields of financial planning, accounting, budgeting, controlling, and reporting from positions in a number of large Danish corporations, including Saxo Bank, ISS, Sydbank, A.P. Moller–Maersk, and the East Asiatic Company. He has worked for several years as a consultant focusing on financial management, shareholder value concepts, and corporate documentation/compliance. In addition, Hauglund has held senior management positions in investment companies focusing on shipping and real estate transactions. He holds an MS in Economics and an Executive MBA from the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Kåre holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Aarhus and joins Concordium from a hyper growth American pre-ipo startup where he managed the Core Infrastructure group. Kåre built the organization across 15 time zones, created high performance teams, and launched offices in Denmark and Lithuania. He was previously a manager at Uber running Core Storage building highly scalable distributed ledger and storage solutions, initially from Denmark and later on from Toronto, Canada; here he doubled as the Site Lead bringing all of Uber’s Toronto operations under the same roof. In an earlier capacity, Kåre was a cofounder of the consulting company Silverbullet where he helped drive the digital transformation of the Danish Public Sector with a focus on PKI secured service to service communication.
A senior financial services executive with more than 30 years of International experience covering sales strategy, commercial excellence, people leadership and execution across countries/regions. Apart from early career Torben has been in Sales and account management and successfully built portfolios within the institutional space. Serving as Global CCO at Saxo Bank and member of the Executive team. Throughout the whole career Technology and finch has always been the cornerstone of choice.
Keld has 10 years of experience in the financial services industry at Danske Bank and 2 years in consultancy at Deloitte. He has a master in philosophy and mathematics, and a PhD in behavioral and brain science. His area of expertise is digital transformation of core functions in the financial services, incl. compliance, risk, and digital sales -building bridges between business and technical conversations.
Conor brings a diverse career established in Capital Markets – across operational, commercial and managerial positions. He ran an active futures and options desk for 10 years, set up professional trading at Etrade Securities for 8 years, ran the front office and white label business for Saxobank in London for 7, digital strategy for the Markets division of Lloyds Commercial Bank, and before joining Concordium was the CEO CF1 of a UK broker. Conor’s roles include Investor Relations, Operations and Commercial Engagement.
Amanda is an Administration and HR Student Assistant at Concordium. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Diversity and Change Management. She holds Bachelor’s degree in Business, Language and Culture with German as second foreign language at Copenhagen Business School.
Anja Brøgger is the Administration Manager in Concordium. She has extensive experience in administrative work and has worked in the Management Consulting for the past 8 years.
Antonio is a marketing student assistant at Concordium with 3+ years of experience in marketing. He is completing his master's degree in Business Economics Marketing at Copenhagen Business School.
With both a corporate and artistic background, Claire has had a diverse career, which is a perfect match for the position as news anchor. Working firstly with Banking and Finance in London city, as a headhunter for amongst others, Goldman Sachs and Lehman brothers, thereupon a career as a well known actress in Denmark and founder of her own fashion brand, CJ London, she also comes from a position as Executive Director for a Fin Tech company in Switzerland.
Daria is a UI/UX designer with 5 years of experience and most of them within crypto. She is a pro in creating websites, mobile and desktop applications. Daria comes from Beam, which is the Confidential Cryptocurrency and DeFi platform. She holds a master’s degree in marketing from National Technical University in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Flora started her career in tech as a Digital Marketing Manager, she has experience working across the marketing spectrum, wearing several hats as a Social media manager, content creator, community manager and CX operations manager. She has extensive experience in the blockchain industry, as one of the early community members of the popular project on the Steem blockchain – Steemit. She worked with several communities on Steemit, most notably SteemSTEM where she contributed in creating several fascinating scientific content. She graduated top of her class and through her budding career has been known to take a highly rational and methodological approach in solving real world challenges.
Peter is 24 years old, live in Frederiksberg and he is a student in the Shipping line at CBS. Peter worked at Rekom, where he primarily sat with PR and running events. For the last 4 years he has worked with two foodtech startups: Hubb and MealTicket.
Henrik B. Sanders serves as an advisor to Concordium. Henrik has experience and expertise on regulatory issues due to his professional background as an attorney-at-law. In addition to his commitment to Concordium, Sanders is Partner and Chairman of the Board with Mazanti-Andersen Korsø Jensen Law firm and is admitted to the Supreme Court in Denmark. Sanders primarily works with mergers and acquisitions and has been the legal advisor in several substantial transactions on behalf of both buyers and sellers, including private equity funds in connection with the acquisition and sale of companies. Additionally, Sanders works with general business law and provides advice to several companies. Sanders holds a Master in Law (LLM) from the University of Copenhagen.
Holger Fischer has +2 years of experience within deep tech at an AI scale up, helping organisations to implement machine learning algorithms into core business functions.
He wrote his master thesis on AI Governance and the commercialization of Machine Learning algorithms at Copenhagen Business School.
As a Blockchain Solution Analyst he implements projects to the Concordium blockchain by helping with direct integrations or assist decentralized applications with building or developing natively on-chain.
With Concordium being an enterprise grade blockchain, Holger also specialize in helping organisations to understand what elements of current business processes can be put on-chain and why this could reduce costs, and both increase efficiency and transparency.
With 5 years of experience as an accountant, Julie has joined Concordium’s team as Accounting Manager. Julie has a degree as a Financial Controller AK from Copenhagen Business Academy, a degree as Revisor HD-R from SDU and is in the process of the master’s degree cand.merc.aud at CPH Business.
Makoto Ota supported the digital transformation of companies as a system implementation consultant at Oracle Japan and an independent IT venture in Japan. In 2018, he entered the blockchain industry. He contributed to the space by holding a free workshop on understanding blockchain technology for more than 400 students at various Japanese universities. Makoto was involved in a demonstration experiment of electric P2P power and P2P medical data management with Japanese health-tec companies.
Joining Concordium in 2019, he enabled Concordium to be the first European platform to gain membership of two industry bodies in Japan, the Fintech Association and the Japan Blockchain Association. In Switzerland, Makoto studied at the world-renowned hotel management school Les Roches and holds a BBA from SBS Swiss Business School.
For the past 7 years Maria has worked as a Communications Consultant for the United Nations Development Program, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica and other governmental institutions. Prior to Concordium, Maria worked as the Public Relations Manager of The Development Observatory of the University of Costa Rica.
Maria has five years of experience working with new technologies. She has led numerous use case implementation of cognitive technologies while working at IBM and from her latest employment at a Nordic tech-focused think tank, she brings a unique perspective on the implementation of disruptive technologies. Her area of expertise is innovation and adaptation of new technologies in heavy-legacy companies. She holds an MSc in Innovation and Business Development from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
After discovering Bitcoin in 2011, Mark co-founded and designed an omni-currency payment gateway, enabling consumers to pay with fiat, loyalty points, and Bitcoin in a single transaction. The start-up soon partnered with Microsoft and the Australian government through their joint-venture innovation program for promising technologies.
As an early crypto-evangelist, Mark specializes in strategic development and brand conceptualization for high-growth start-ups and crypto companies and has been featured on and quoted in Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Reuters, BBC Africa, Yahoo Finance, Express.co.uk, Capital.com, Verdict, Currency.com and many more. As the Director of HOKK Finance, he led the transformation of the brand from a community, volunteer-based project, to building a team of 36, into a DeFi as-a-service ecosystem creating dApps so companies can tap into the future of money.
Mark is also co-founder Murasaki B.V, a Japanese game studio based in The Netherlands, backed by Japan’s largest web3 VC, Incubate Fund.
Mark was appointed as the Concordium Brand Director to bring the company closer towards the DeFi space, where he is responsible for creating a new image to give the blockchain the status it deserves and compete in a trillion-dollar industry.
Mikael has 12 years experience from fintech of which the last 4 years was helping Coinify scale the product development and commercial organisation. Besides working for large companies like Nets and Saxo Bank, Mikael has also been co-founder/CEO of two tech startups.
Oliver is currently completing his bachelor's degree in European Business at Copenhagen Business School.
Peter S. Linnemann is the Head of HR at Concordium and has a proven track record and vast international experience in general management and human resources management and has worked as a management consultant for several years. He is an Associate Partner of Humanostics.
His business experience includes executive/team assessments, analyses and transformation of organisations globally for a number of companies. Peter is an MBA alumnus of IMD in Switzerland and holds a BSc. in economics from Copenhagen Business School
Torben Pryds Pedersen is a Special Advisor to the Commercial Team and the father of the Pedersen Commitment. He was previously head of Cryptomathic’s R&D division. Pryds Pedersen holds an MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Science (Cryptology) from the University of Aarhus. He has carried out extensive research in cryptographic protocols and participated in several EU projects related to electronic payment. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Essen, Germany and CWI in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Pryds Pedersen has also been an active member of the program committees of several software certification organizations.
Sami has a 20 years of experience as a specialist in graphic/industrial design and project management in the world of engineering. This Spaniard woman, has always been related to the technical world and new technologies, continued her training as a Community and Project Manager, putting the rigor and professionalism of her technical experience at the service of new projects under development.
In the blockchain world, Sami has collaborated with projects such as Celo, Massa Labs, or her work in the content creation department of Stakely, a leading provider of staking services in Spain. Sami's technical profile has led her to delve into the inner workings of the blockchain, researching and participating in networks as a validator.
Under her motto "Curiosity is underestimated", using hers as a driver towards continuous improvement and as Marketing Lead for Spanish speaking Countries, she will be in charge of bringing the technology and opportunities developed by our project to all Spanish speaking countries.
Ralph is a community manager who discovered Ethereum in 2017. This discovery led him to learn about other blockchain projects including Bitcoin, Filecoin, and Dogecoin. Experiencing the opportunities these projects brought led to him creating and promoting crypto related educational content.He brings over 5 years working experience in traditional finance, having built several financial models and pitch decks for clients raising capital. Some of the projects were done on behalf of The Mastercard Foundation, World Health Organisation and Impact Hub. He also contributes regularly to crypto Twitter spaces such as the Blockchain Society Ghana, and is passionate about supporting and growing crypto communities.In his spare time, Ralph owns and manages a gaming community with thousands of active international members. He also DJs, produces music and loves exploring other cultures.
Umair is a community manager. He is from India and holds a bachelor's degree in computer science. He started out his blockchain journey in 2019. He has 2 years worth of experience in community management and has managed several projects from DeFi to Gaming. He joined Concordium in 2022 and is keen on helping and growing the community and learning new technology.
Keesan brings 8+ years of experience in the investment industry, 3+ years as an entrepreneur and working with agile startups, and 4+ years in the crypto space.
He has been involved in working with early stage web3 projects and crypto VCs for about 2 years. He is the ex-head of Argo Innovation Labs at Argo Blockchain PLC and brings a deep network in the crypto space.
Salman is a Community Manager. He is from New Delhi, India and holds a Diploma in Computer Science Engineering, a Bachelor in Computer Science Engineering, and a MBA in International Business.
He started out his blockchain journey in 2017 and joined Concordium in 2022. He has more than 3 years of experience in Community Management and have actively promoted and managed over 5 crypto projects to the worldwide crypto space. He is an innovative thinker and blockchain and cryptocurrency enthusiast who’s willing and available to provide effective and efficient solutions to the growth of the project.
Pavel started his career in technical support back in 2008, he has extensive experience in helping users with all aspects of software installation, explaining technical details of the product as well as ongoing support. A community manager with a technical bent, he has been part of the Concordium team since Testnet 3, and has followed a common goal with the rest of the team ever since.
Pavel was a student at Northwestern Technical University in St. Petersburg, majoring in Information Technology and Control Systems.
Shashi is ISTQB certified software test engineer with 11+ years of working experience across banking, finance and mass media. He has worked in various QA roles with focus and expertise on mobile apps and APIs testing. Shashi has been working with LTI, one of the biggest names in the IT industry, till very recently. During his professional career, Shashi has worked on a wide variety of projects with companies like Conde Nast, nets, Bokis, Nordea, Coop, Q8 (OKQ8 in Sweden) etc. Shashi did graduation in Bachelors of Technology (Electronics & Communication) in 2009
Elliot Mellon is joining as a Student Analyst in Commercial. Elliot will be joining the team in Copenhagen.
“My attraction to Concordium was very apparent as I have been involved in crypto for the past few years, first as a user, and More recently as a co-founder of a venture firm. By background in the space is heavily based on analysis of new projects, portfolio company relationship management, and research. I am currently a student at CBS studying Business Administration and Digital Management.”
Richard Wang is joining as a Regional Country Lead. Richard will be working remote out of China. Richard Wang joined DFJDragon Fund since 2011. Mr. Wang has over 20 years of business development, technical marketing and sales management in high technology space experiences. Prior to DFJDragon Fund, Richard served as QunZhong E-Commerce’s CEO and Prior to QunZhong E-Commerce, he founded OLEA Network with partners in Silicon Valley. The company research and develop wireless intelligent ECG senor by using the Doppler Radar technology. He has several technical papers published in IEEE journal. Mr. Wang holds MSEE from National Chiao Tung University since 1995.
Mr. Richard Wang is interested at Artificial Intelligence Application and fintech area especially in BlockChain sector, his portfolios including Yeepay, Senodia, NasoSic, Innodealing, Epticore, Hcash, Vechain, Redpulse , Primas, Kronos, TEA, Fusion, IOTex, QuarkChain, XREX, NUWA, HumanProtocol, AIG, AiDTech, Concordium, Fog Works, Dmail, Ink Financial, Abellian, GhostMarket, Waterfall, Metaverse.AI, SpaceY2025, AlgoBlocks, dPrism, Ballet wallet and Splashtop.
Brad Xue is joining as a Community Manager of Chinese. Brad will be working remote out of China.
Brad is a senior financial services expert with more than 15 years in fintech field experience covering marketing management, business solution development and growth strategy. Apart from early career, Brad has been in marketing management role and successfully lead China product and marketing team achieving $200million revenue annually at NYSE listed company Diebold-Nixdorf, Foxxconn Blockchain and Wanxiang Blockchain.
Aleš Bizjak holds a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from the University of Ljubljana, and a PhD in Computer Science from Aarhus University supervised by Professor Lars Birkedal. Before joining Concordium he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University where he was also involved in designing and teaching several
courses. He has published 15 papers in leading international venues on semantics of programming languages, verification of concurrent systems, and computer aided verification. During his research he designed new program logics and methods for verifying concurrent programs, and formalized results using computer proof assistants. He served on program committees of leading international venues.
During his studies and work he authored several software tools to support his research and teaching.
Boğaçhan holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Izmir Institute of Technology, he is in his senior year in the MSc program in the same field. Before joining Concordium he worked on blockchain projects as a developer for several years, as a team lead, and then as a project coordinator for the last 3 years. Boğaçhan states that he is a blockchain maximalist who believes that this technology will change the world entirely.
Zoltan holds a Bachelor of IT engineer diploma from Budapest, Hungary, and a Bachelor of Constructing Architecture from Horsens, Denmark. He has over 10 years of experience in the field of IT support and IT project management, with multiple other experience, including sales and marketing.He spent his first 22 years in Hungary, and in the last 16 years he has been living in Denmark, at the moment in Silkeborg, with his fiancé and 2 daughters. In his free time he love to spend time with his family and friends. Sport, and gadget enthusiast as hobbies. Not that much as before kids, but still trying.
Carolin studied Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Potsdam in Germany. She then completed her PhD in Computer Science at Aarhus University under the supervision of professors Ivan Damgård and Louis Salvail, with her research focus on secure cryptographic protocols in both the classical and the quantum world. Carolin worked as a student test engineer for several companies during her Diploma studies, and then after leaving academia, as a tester at Nets DanID. Before joining Concordium, she worked for six years as a test manager for mission-critical systems in the defense department at Systematic. The position as test manager in the Concordium tech team allows Carolin now to combine her crypto education with her test profession.
Thomas Dinsdale-Young holds a PhD from Imperial College London in program verification.
Before joining Concordium, he was an assistant professor at Aarhus University, where he developed techniques and tools for formally verifying concurrent software.
He has published papers in numerous international venues, and has received an individual postdoc grant and research talent award from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF).
Danielle is an experienced technical writer and trainer. She is curious about how things work and passionate about explaining things. As she says, "Developers are like artists and my job is to explain their art to others." Danielle has more than a decade of experience documenting software. She is originally from the US and has lived in Denmark since 2007.
Before joining Concordium, Danielle worked as a technical communicator at Marel A/S, documenting their software solutions. She also worked as a software trainer at Vestas and CCI Europe (now Stibo DX).
Danielle has a Bachelors degree in Art History from the University of Georgia.
Doris is a researcher, and solidity smart contract developer, who is excited about the bright future of blockchains and decentralized applications. She finished a PhD at a research institute in Singapore 3 years ago. Doris stayed at this research institute for another 2 years to work on different blockchain projects mainly with Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 and Ethereum. Then, she joined another company to work remotely on large-scale DEFI/NFT protocols on EVM compatible blockchains (solidity).
Emil has a master degree in computer science from Aarhus University with focus on programming languages and program verification, and years of experience with software development.
Emil Lai holds a MSc in Computer Science from Aarhus University.
Before joining Concordium he worked at Sepior developing a MPC based KMaaS. There he worked with crypto primitive; protocol implementations, and distributed networking to more holistic tasks such as API design, architecture, product design decisions etc.
Prior to his job at Sepior, he worked at Signaturgruppen, developing solutions around the NemID PKI.
Emil Madsen Bennedsen recently joined Concordium as a Software Engineer. He holds a Master’s Degree in Mathematics from Aarhus University.
Felice Dibattista is an infrastructure specialist working in the IT industry since 2005.
Before joining Concordium he was working for Mobilepay as senior Devops Engineer, where he helped, among other things, provision and maintain a platform serving more than one million daily transactions and six million users.
During his career he worked in three countries (Italy, Spain and Denmark) and covered different profiles such as Platform engineer, Operations, System Administrator and Back-end Developer.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Bari University.
Jakob has previously worked at Systematic with designing and building robust integrations for the Danish healthcare sector. He holds a master’s degree in mathematics and computer science from Aarhus University where his main interests were within cryptography.
Jens works as UI Developer at Concordium. He will be working on designing and implementing user interfaces in relation to the Concordium blockchain. Jens holds a MSc in IT Product Development with focus on UX and user-centered design, from the Department of Computer Science – Aarhus University. He has previously been working at Grundfos and the Alexandra Institute.
Kasper Dissing Bargsteen holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in SoftwareEngineering from Aalborg University.He joined Concordium in 2020, where he has primarily been working on smart contracts.
Martin has a bachelor degree in Product Development from Business Academy Aarhus. Martin has previously worked as a Test Engineer at Systematic for the past three and a half years where he was designing and executing tests for desktop and mobile applications in the Defense sector.
Michael recently joined the Concordium team where he’s currently developing the client that external users will use to communicate with the blockchain network.
His previous position was at Uber where he played a central role in designing and implementing a distributed graph-based cache along with related tooling. Among other things, the service currently the integration platform of critical storage and compute management systems within Uber’s infrastructure.
Michael holds a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Aarhus.
Nikita did his MSc and PhD studies in computer science at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden). His research interests are found on the intersection of functional programming, type theory, compiler construction, and computer architecture.
Before moving to Gothenburg, Nikita received a degree in electrical engineering from Bauman Technical University (Moscow, Russia) and built cryptographic applications for a large telecommunications company. Nikita moved from Gothenburg to Paris, France to improve his French and to build data analytics products for the advertisement and finance industries. He still resides in the Paris region
Stefan is the project manager for the tech team. He comes from a similar position at Cryptomathic. Stefan has extensive industry experience with over 15 years of experience as a software project manager and 10 years prior to that as a developer. Stefan has worked on security related projects in the areas such as centralized digital signatures, Credit card personalization, crypto key management and client side mobile banking security for major players in the financial sector. Stefan holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Aarhus University.
Stefan has a Masters degree in Computer Science from Aarhus University.
He worked as a DevOps engineer for Udviklings- og Forenklingsstyrelsen, IT development department for Skatteministeriet, working on a customs project.
Previously he worked for Danske Bank, as a part of the platform team working on the backend of their mobile banking app
Søren has a master’s degree in IT product development from Aarhus University with a focus on design process and prototyping. He wrote his thesis on the dissemination of news on voice-controlled speakers together with Stibo Systems as well as a small English news media.
After completing his education, he has worked as a front-end developer at IMPACT A / S for ~ 5 years. Here he has worked closely with companies of various sizes to implement e-commerce platforms – mostly for the web and smartphone apps. Before joining Concordium, he was a tech lead in IMPACT.
Søren holds a master’s degree in computer science from Aarhus University with focus on programming languages, cryptography and algorithms, with a thesis in Computational Complexity.
Viktor Fredslund Hansen is joining as a Software Developer in the Core Blockchain Team and will be working from both Aarhus and Copenhagen. Before joining Concordium Viktor did his Masters and PhD studies at Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen at the University of Copenhagen. During his studies, his research focused on graph algorithms and computational geometry.
Behzad has a bachelor of science degree in Computer Engineering-Hardware and a master of science degree in Information Technology Engineering from the university in Tehran. Behzad has previously worked as an IT technician in Tehran municipality for more than 10 years.
Jan Dragsbæk is joining as DevOps Engineer and he will be working out of our office in Aarhus, Denmark.
At any workplace, there is always someone who steps up and takes care of infrastructure when no one else wants to. I have been that guy for the last 15 years and I have recently been sidetracked into working with Information Security. When not being paranoid at work, I like to race in virtual GT3 and LMP2 race cars. I recently adopted a Corgi and she steals all my spare time.
Viktor Fredslund Hansen is joining as a Software Developer in the Core Blockchain Team and will be working from both Aarhus and Copenhagen.Before joining Concordium Viktor did his Masters and PhD studies at Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen at the University of Copenhagen. During his studies, his research focused on graph algorithms and computational geometry.
Rasmus Kirk Jakobsen is joining as a Student Programmer in the Aarhus office.
Christian Matt is a senior researcher at Concordium. Before joining Concordium, he worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a postdoctoral scholar. Christian holds a PhD in computer science from ETH Zurich and studied computer science and mathematics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. His research spans several areas of cryptography and he has published papers at leading venues for cryptographic research.
Christopher Portmann is a senior researcher at Concordium. He completed a Masters degree in theoretical computer science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, with a thesis on quantum key distribution written at the university of Aarhus, Denmark. He obtained a PhD in cryptography from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. After doing a postdoc in the quantum information theory group of the physics department at the ETH Zurich, he worked as a senior researcher in the theoretical cryptography group of the computer science department at the ETH Zurich. He does research in both classical and quantum cryptography, with a focus on composable security. He has publications in leading venues of both physics and classical cryptography.
Daniel Tschudi is a senior researcher at Concordium. Daniel holds a Bachelor and Master’s degrees, both in Mathematics, from ETH Zurich. He did his PhD in Computer Science at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Professor Ueli Maurer. His research has been in cryptography with a focus on secure computation protocols. He maintains research interest in cryptocurrencies and anonymous communication. He has published several research papers in leading IACR conferences and distributed computing flagship venues
Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh is a PhD student in the Cryptography and Security Group at Aarhus University, advised by Jesper Buus Nielsen. His research is mainly focused on privacy-preserving technologies for blockchains, particularly in proof systems with desirable properties, such as succinctness and zero knowledge.
Dr. Gersbach is currently Professor of Macroeconomics, Innovation and Policy at ETH Zurich, where his research areas include: Macroeconomic Thinking and Economic Policy; Innovation, the Engines of Growth and Long-term Well-being; and Design of New Democratic Institutions.
Dr. Gersbach was previously a visiting professor at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University and a professor at the University of Heidelberg, where he worked for over a decade. Dr. Gersbach is a Member and Former Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich, and a member of the ifo Scientific Advisory Council and Acting CESifo Council, Munich. Dr. Gersbach is also a research fellow of CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research), London.
Before joining Concordium, Danil was a postdoc researcher at the Concordium Blockchain Research Center, Aarhus University, where he worked on formal verification of smart contracts. His research areas include programming language semantics, proof assistants, type theory and functional programming. Danil received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen, DIKU in 2018. After receiving his PhD degree, he was a postdoc researcher at INRIA Nantes, France, working on extending the Coq proof assistant with new reasoning principles.
Professor Jesper Buus Nielsen is Concordium’s Chief Scientific Advisor, COBRA’s center leader, and a Professor of Computer Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. As the author of over 70 scientific publications, he is a leading expert on secure multiparty computation and has been the program committee chair for the Theory of Cryptography Conference and the Eurocrypt Conference. Most notably, he is co-author of Secure Multiparty Computation and Secret Sharing — widely regarded as a seminal work on privacy in distributed computing environments. He is a member of the Cryptography Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University. Buus Nielsen holds a PhD in Computer Science from Aarhus University.
Professor Ivan Damgård is one of the world’s top-cited published researchers in cryptography. Within the blockchain community, Damgård is the co-inventor of the Merkle-Damgård-construction — the cryptographic hash function that all blockchains rely on in one form or another.
He is a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and, in 2015, he received the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics, which recognized Damgård as an innovator and for his lifetime achievements in the field of cryptography.
Damgård received his PhD in Computer Science from Denmark’s Aarhus University, where he currently serves as a professor. In 2021, Ivan Damgård received the first STOC Test of Time Award for his impactful work.
Bas Spitters is an Associate Professor at Aarhus University and Work Package Leader for formal verification and smart contracts at COBRA. His research areas include computer-aided proofs in cryptography, logic, semantics, and type theory. Spitters holds a PhD in Mathematics from Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Spitters has held positions in Nijmegen, Chalmers, Paris-Sud, Carnegie Mellon University and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.
Benjamin S. Hvass is a PhD student at Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University supervised by Diego Aranha. His research is on high-insurance cryptography and involves formally verifying functional correctness and security of cryptographic primitives. Benjamin holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Aarhus University.
Claudio Orlandi is an Associate Professor at Aarhus University and Work Package Leader for cryptography at COBRA. His research areas include secure multiparty computation, foundations of cryptographic computing, data analytics, and cybersecurity. Prior to this, he worked as a postdoc at Aarhus University and at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv.
Orlandi graduated with an MEng in Computer Engineering before obtaining his PhD in Computer Science from Aarhus University with renowned cryptographers Ivan Damgård and Jesper Buus Nielsen as advisors.
Danil Annenkov is a PostDoc at the Concordium Blockchain Research Center Aarhus, at Aarhus University working on formal verification of smart contracts. His research areas include programming language semantics, formal verification, proof assistants and type theory. Danil Annenkov received his PhD degree in Computer science from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 2018. After receiving his PhD degree, Annenkov was a postdoc researcher at INRIA Nantes, France, where he worked on extending the Coq proof assistant with new reasoning principles.
Diego F. Aranha is an Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University, where he is also affiliated to COBRA and DIGIT. Before, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University. His professional experience is in Cryptography and Computer Security, with a special interest in the efficient implementation of cryptographic algorithms and security analysis of real-world systems. He received the Google Latin America Research Award for research on privacy twice, and the MIT TechReview’s Innovators Under 35 Brazil Award for his work in electronic voting.
Lasse Letager Hansen is a research assistant at Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University under Bas Spitters. Working on high assurance cryptography for Rust, currently focused on developing hacspec. Holds an M.Sc. in Comuter Science from Aarhus University.
Luisa is a postdoctoral researcher in cryptography at Aarhus University in the Concordium Blockchain Research Center. Before joining Aarhus University she spent one year as a Post-doc at the University of Salerno. She completed the Ph.D. at the University of Salerno in March 2018 and she was advised by Ivan Visconti.
Her research is mainly focused on various aspects of cryptography, such as non-malleable cryptography, multi-party computation, and privacy-preserving technologies for blockchains.
Søren Eller Thomsen is a PhD student at Aarhus University in Cryptography and Security research group at Department of Computer Science, and he is also part of the Concordium Blockchain Research Center Aarhus, at Aarhus University. He has a broad range of research interests including formal verification, distributed systems, and information flow control. Specifically, is he currently working on developing a new consensus algorithm and meanwhile trying to formally verify existing consensus protocols.
Simon Holmgaard Kamp is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University, supervised by Jesper Buus Nielsen. He is part of the Concordium Blockchain Research Center at Aarhus University doing research in Cryptography and Distributed Systems.
Manvir Schneider is a doctoral student at ETH Zurich, supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans Gersbach. His research is on staking pools and delegation in proof-of-stake blockchains. Manvir holds a BSc and MSc in Mathematics from ETH Zurich.
Bernardo David is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), working on cryptographic protocols for multiparty computation and blockchain applications. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Aarhus University and has previously worked as an Assistant Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Bernardo has published over 30 articles in scientific journals and conferences. Among his main contributions is Ouroboros, the first provably secure protocol for proof-of-stake blockchains. He is a member of the Center for Information Security and Trust (CIST) at ITU.
Lorenzo Gentile is a PhD Student in Computer Science at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) and a member of the Center for Information Security and Trust (CISAT). He holds a Master in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi) and has previously worked as a Research Collaborator at the Department of Mathematics and at the Osservatori Digital Innovation of his former university. His current research interests focus on cryptographic protocols for multiparty computation and blockchain applications.
Chaya Ganesh is an Assisting Professor at Indian Institute of Science. She was a PostDoc at the Concordium Blockchain Research Center Aarhus, at Aarhus University. Ganesh’s research is in cryptography and she is particularly interested in secure computation and zero-knowledge protocols.
She has published several research papers in top conferences on topics ranging from Non- Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Composite Statements, and Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proof of Algebraic and Non-Algebraic Statements with Applications to Privacy Preserving Credentials, to Proof-of-Stake Protocols for Privacy-Aware Blockchains. Ganesh has served on the program committees of BCC 2019, CANS 2018, SEC 2018, and will be on PETS 2020, CANS 2019.
Ganesh received her PhD from New York University, where she was awarded the Henry MacCracken Fellowship by NYU during her doctoral studies. She also holds an M.S. in Computer Science from IIT Madras, and a B.E. in Information Science and Engineering from R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore.
Dr. Gersbach is currently Professor of Macroeconomics, Innovation and Policy at ETH Zurich, where his research areas include: Macroeconomic Thinking and Economic Policy; Innovation, the Engines of Growth and Long-term Well-being; and Design of New Democratic Institutions.
Dr. Gersbach was previously a visiting professor at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University and a professor at the University of Heidelberg, where he worked for over a decade. Dr. Gersbach is a Member and Former Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich, and a member of the ifo Scientific Advisory Council and Acting CESifo Council, Munich. Dr. Gersbach is also a research fellow of CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research), London.
Julia is currently studying for her master’s in Applied Cultural Analysis at the University of Copenhagen. Professionally, She has experience working in social media, market research, both qualitative and quantitative research, and data analysis.
Julia comes from Warsaw, in the past she lived in London and moved to Copenhagen two months ago. In her free time, you will find her practising yoga, cooking and trying out new recipes.
To advance in the creation of web3 applications, Theo is presently pursuing a Master's degree in Software Design at ITU Copenhagen in addition to his background in international sales and marketing.
He has worked in the Seas sector as Customer Success Management and has assisted various European development teams in deploying and enhancing software utilisation to generate value.
Mariona has 5+ years of experience in the fields of marketing, advertising and communication, wearing multiple hats around media, marketing strategy, creative advertising and digital content for international brands.
She holds a degree in Business from University of Barcelona, a degree in Advertising from Open University of Catalonia and she has specialised in Creative Strategy at the Miami Ad School and The Creative Circus in Atlanta. She’s currently pursing her Master’s degree in Business, Language and Culture at CBS.
Sara is currently studying for a master's degree in Global Development Studies. Previously, she studied a degree in Psychology in Madrid, specializing in Human Resources.
Batur has 10 years of experience as a content creator. He started his career in blockchain as a content creator and manager in 2021 and he is helping top influencers on social media to grow their community led to him creating engaging crypto-related educational content. He has been part of the Concordium team since Testnet 3, one of first OG's. His passion in crypto is DAOs.
William is pursuing a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics at Copenhagen Business school.
His professional background stems from the fintech industry, where he has worked with sales and analytics within BNPL solutions such as Anyday and Viabill.
Sharan comes from a product background and has worked on various deep-tech projects. He is passionate about leveraging science and technology for high-impact goals.
Ali has a background as a Software Engineer. He has a lot of experience with the .NET framework and developing APIs & microservices.
Prashant Tripathi is a community lead for Indian community. He is from Lucknow, India. Prashant has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
He got interested in Blockchain technology back in 2019 and has actively participated in crypto space ever since. He has more than 2 years of experience in community management and managed a few crypto projects prior to joining Concordium in 2022.
Guillermo is joining the DevTools Team in Aarhus as a Front End Developer.
Jonas is an experienced cybersecurity specialist and professional hacker with over two decades of experience in the industry. He has gained extensive knowledge and expertise in the field through his deep background in the intelligence community. Jonas spent 13 years working for Danish military intelligence (DDIS), where he worked extensively with both defensive and offensive cybersecurity. In the private sector, Jonas served as the tech lead for cybersecurity at Danske Bank for seven years. During his tenure, he created and led an internal Red Team, which was responsible for testing the bank's security systems on a daily basis.
Nicoleta has a bachelor degree in computer science and a master’s degree in systems engineering. She has been working in QA for more than 6 years, joining the first company in Denmark more than two years ago.
Anne has a background in marketing consulting where she has led campaign process management for global brands. Her experience covers all aspects of the GTM process - from strategy development to creation and activation. Through the years, she has developed a passion for project planning and stakeholder management, with a focus on strengthening collaboration efforts to heighten marketing effectiveness.
Emmanouil has joined Concordium to help create more business case leads.
Robin is a fintech/crypto content producer, strategist, communications manager, and media researcher working at the intersection of creativity and business communications. He is very keen on decentralised finance and the transformative nature of Web3 to revolutionise businesses and build a more sustainable future.
Torben comes from a position as CEO of the video production company, SpeakerBee and has close to 20 years of experience from Saxo Bank as Head of Marketing. Torben is also Portfolio Manager at Seier Capital evaluating new investment proposals and overseeing the portfolio.
Get the latest news about Concordium.
