He is certainly not a buddy of managers of listed companies. Fraser Perring (Twitter) is a notorious short seller who repeatedly launches short-selling attacks against companies. He is one of the people behind Viceroy Research LLC, an investigative financial research group registered in Delaware, USA. Perring uses Twitter as a platform to expose their findings and run his campaigns.
She has an impressive CV. She is indeed a fintech woman with a track record. Diana Dumitrescu is the CEO of InnovX, an accelerator built on innovation, hard work, collaboration, ethics, and sustainability. Diana is a Doctor of Philosophy in European financial instruments.
Anne Boden (Twitter) is a UK tech entrepreneur and is best known as the founder and CEO of Starling Bank. She developed the neobank with the reclusive Austrian investor Harald McPike-Zima, who reportedly invested at least £133m in Starling Bank for nearly two-thirds of the shares. Anne is undoubtedly one of the most influential people in the UK fintech scene.
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.
