After a six-month search, Storfund has appointed Oliver Whelan, previously Worldfirst Global Head of Enterprise, as Chief Revenue Officer. Whelan, who spent ten years at payments fintech Worldfirst, will be responsible for accelerating Storfund's rapid and profitable growth. This press release contains multimedia content.
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Zurich-based Swiss FinTech AG d/b/a Loanboox (website) brings German fintech celebrities onto its board of directors. The financing platform is also expanding its team in its northern neighbor. The German-Swiss insurtech Wefox is already considered a valuation unicorn and Loanboox has now been able to recruit former Wefox CEO Oliver Lang as a board member.
Edwin Zacipa (Twitter) (Linkedin) is one of the leading fintech influencers in Latin America. Based in Colombia, he is an entrepreneur with experience in retail banking, co-founder, and former managing director at the Colombian Fintech Association. He had led the Colombian operations of British consulting firms specializing in Open Banking.
The crypto czar and FinTech entrepreneur Alex Alexandrov was born in Ukraine and moved to Canada at a young age. He started a bitcoin mining venture around 2012 when the Bitcoin (BTC) price was around $4. In 2013, Alex and his then partner Jason Butcher acquired the crypto startup CoinPayments (PR42 profile). Since then, CoinPayments saw explosive growth with a transaction volume of more than $2 billion a month, 115,000 merchants, and three million users.
The former Boston Consulting Group principal Brian Shroder with a Harvard MBA, is the CEO of BAM Trading Services Inc. d/b/a Binance.US, the US branch of the Binance Group. In April 2022, Binance.US raised over $200 million in its first external funding round just before the crypto markets collapsed. The finance round included investors including RRE Ventures, Foundation Capital, Original Capital, VanEck, and Circle Ventures. They accepted a whopping $4.5 billion valuation.
The FCA-regulated e-Money Institution PPRO Financial Ltd d/b/a PPRO is controlled by the German PPRO Holding GmbH and has affiliated companies in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. The company was co-founded by the former Wirecard manager Tobias Schreyer in 2011. The German Goetz Moeller has been the CFO for 3 years but handed over to the former Wayfair Europe finance executive Rahul Raswant.
