Management

Über uns

Jeder, der sich für XVA-Blockchain und den allgemeinen Geschäftsplan interessiert, möchte natürlich mehr über die Menschen hinter dem Unternehmen erfahren.

Unser Management ist eine Mischung aus sehr erfahrenen Branchenexperten aus der Kapital Markt, FinTech- und der Digitalbranche. Wir kombinieren unternehmerische Erfahrung mit einem Hintergrund aus der Arbeit in führenden Positionen bei renommierten Unternehmen wie Eurex, Algorithmics, Deutsche Börse oder Calypso Technology.

Als Gründerteam sind wir davon überzeugt, dass die Blockchain-Technologie das Potenzial hat, die Skalierbarkeit, Transparenz und Sicherheit von Finanzdienstleistungen, massiv zu verbessern.

Begleiten Sie uns auf unserem Weg, die Zukunft einer kompletten Branche zu gestalten.

Thomas A. Schwiertz

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Managing Founder

Frederick Friedman

CCO (Chief Client Officer)

Alexander J. Boos

Head of Legal
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Nina Kaplan

President and CEO, XVA Blockchain North America

Dr. Dietmar Schnabel

CTO (Chief Technology Officer)

Rob Crozier

CRO (Chief Risk Officer)
Head of Collateral Management

Freya L. Schmitfranz

CMO (Chief Marketing Officer)

Naomi Klaes

CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) and Head of HR

Poh Chuen Tan

COO & Head of Regulatory Affairs

Our Advisors

Every team works better with a group of advisors to support them. They are proven experts in their line of work and provide valuable input.

Prof. Dr. Christian Fries

Mathematisches Institut Universität München

Jochen Diel

Industry Expert

Ales Tomazin, Ph.D.

Industry Expert & Advisor to Crypto Companies

Hendrik Kempfert

Industry Expert & Serial Entrepreneur

Sylvia Trimborn-Ley

Experienced senior manager from international banking industry & founder
Career

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Thomas A. Schwiertz

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Managing Founder

Thomas has over 16 years experience working in the financial industry in various roles across companies such as Algorithmics, Fitch Group or Eurex Clearing, Deutsche Börse. He is physicist and he has a strong background in statistical finance. Prior to his role at our company Thomas was managing founder at CVA Services GmbH, a German consultancy specialized in risk management and regulatory reporting for banks, asset managers, and insurances. In his career he supported over 20 institutional clients in projects related to risk, reporting, and digitalization.

Frederick Friedman

CCO (Chief Client Officer)

Frederick has over 25 years’ experience in the financial sector both as NASD licensed securities broker (Paine Webber, Merrill Lynch), and as sales/ account management executive for multiple vendors, such as Bloomberg, FIS, Finastra, Moody’s Analytics, Wolters Kluwer. He has a strong track record in sales of complex software solutions for derivatives trading, risk management and regulatory reporting. Frederick has extensive knowledge of operational processes and regulatory requirements in banking, insurance and asset management. His professional mission is to help customers find and deploy intelligent technology to improve efficiency in capital markets operations.

Alexander J. Boos

Head of Legal
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Alex is the Head of legal affairs. He has been practicing law for more than 12 years with a degree from Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz. He is also our Chief Financial Officer.

Nina Kaplan

President and CEO, XVA Blockchain North America

Nina Kaplan is a globally recognized business leader, pioneer and entrepreneur with a track record of scaling startups and maximizing profit while controlling costs. Her successes have landed her on the covers of major publications, including NEWSWEEK.

Nina bridges the new world of crypto and the older New York legacy finance and commodities markets. Nina speaks six languages.

In 2009, Nina opened and ran the first trading division for Scholz AG, the second largest recycling company in the world with €5.3 billion in annual revenue. During the economic crisis, she brought the company from startup to over $96 million in revenues by Q2. She started and supervised a facility in China, an office in Hong Kong, and large trading operations in New York and in Germany. Nina launched the company’s first physical and commodity trading operation.

Nina’s first business, Summit Metals Recovery Corp. pioneered PC recycling in the State of New Jersey, and created the world’s first and largest trading business for recyclable circuit board scrap. Nina was among the first in her industry to expand into China and throughout Southeast Asia.

Dr. Dietmar Schnabel

CTO (Chief Technology Officer)

After finishing his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt Dietmar spend most of his professional career in finance. Dietmar is a FinTech veteran and he has a strong focus on implementing and customizing trading and risk systems.

He worked for large institutional clients like Deutsche Bank as well as software vendors.

Project execution at Calypso Technology led him throughout Europe and North- and South America.

Rob Crozier

CRO (Chief Risk Officer)
Head of Collateral Management

Rob began his career over 20 years ago working in back-office line and project roles for various investment banks in London and Frankfurt including Barclays Capital, UBS and Deutsche Bank..

In 2008 he joined Calypso Professional Services as a specialist for the Back Office, Accounting and Collateral Management modules.

After leaving Calypso in 2012, Rob took on a leading role in successful Collateral Management implementations at both LCH and UniCredit before moving to Eurex Clearing to work on rolling out its OTC Interest Rates Clearing platform.

Freya L. Schmitfranz

CMO (Chief Marketing Officer)

She has a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences and Philosophy. In the course of this she has an interdisciplinary focus and competencies in economic sociology, economics and media studies. She displays great interdisciplinary skills as well as economic knowledge and is able to use her understanding and tools to develop and implement strategies for possible customers.

She also has experience in Media through film, photo and newspaper projects. During her bachelor’s degree, she took over public relations work at an information center at NABU.

Naomi Klaes

CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) and Head of HR

As Head of HR Naomi is for example responsible for hiring processes and improving employee engagement. As CRO Naomi is, in general, responsible for growing the companies revenue. Besides these responsibilities she is studying law at Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz.

Poh Chuen Tan

COO & Head of Regulatory Affairs

Poh Chuen Tan graduated with his master’s degree in International Economics and Public Policy at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany). He brings along entrepreneurial and strategic communication skillsets, having accumulated cross-industry experiences in SAP, mergers and acquisitions, and events management. He has over 7 years of experience executing projects in Singapore, Indonesia, Germany and China for major conglomerates such as Boehringer Ingelheim, Estee Lauder, Audi/Volkswagen Group, as well as the Japanese ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Ales Tomazin, Ph.D.

Industry Expert & Advisor to Crypto Companies

Ales’ main areas of daily activities are ERM, capital allocation, Solvency II, IFRS 17 and bringing business logic to start-ups in the process of pre and post ICO. He holds a PhD in Actuarial Science, has more than 15 years experience in insurance sector (working for more than 10 insurance companies) and is a known member in the blockchain community.

Hendrik Kempfert

Industry Expert & Serial Entrepreneur

Manager positions at Adform, virtual minds AG, Yieldlab AG and many more. Currently he supports the Logistics Summit as a Sales Director. Hendrik’s skill set includes entrepreneurship, GDPR, Media Buying Solutions, Programmatic Buying, DMP, DSP, SSP, RTB, Crosse-Device, Device Recognition, Profiling, Adserving, Targeting, ReTargeting, Tracking, Streaming, RichMedia, GeoTargeting, Online Marketing, and knowledge behind clicks.

Sylvia Trimborn-Ley

Experienced senior manager from international banking industry & founder

Sylvia offers senior manager experience from international banks, more than 20 years professional experience in audit, risk and compliance management. Currently she consults as founder of BlockDeMar GmbH DeFi companies and IT service providers on business process automation, transformation management and group wide risk assessments. Her focus is on risk & compliance management systems, e.g anti-financial crime programs, Know your client / know your partner procedures, outsourcing control, MaRisk implementation.


Sylvia’s skill set includes entrepreneurship, non-financial & sanctions risk management, lean process design, robotics process automation, due diligence handling and post merger integration.


Sylvia graduated in business administration (Diplom-Kauffrau), is an information systems auditor certified by the US ISACA foundation and holds a Six Sigma belt. She mentors in Frankfurt School of Finance & Management’s DLT talent program, empowering female talents to leadership in the blockchain, crypto assets and DLT field (https://my.dlt-talents.com).

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