Bitnation | Operations & Advisory team.
Bitnation is defined as the world's first Decentralized Borderless Virtual Nation (DBVN). It is a Blockchain Jurisdiction. The company has huge, experienced and professional team including those in charge of the Core operations, communications, technology, and advisers.
The Operations Core Team
Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof | Founder and CEO
She is an international entrepreneur working primarily in frontier environments, having the ambition to leverage radical technologies and resilient peer-to-peer networks in order to create a borderless and voluntary post-nation-state governance alternative. Her work has been featured in Swedish, Russian, Venezuelan and French television, BBC Radio 4, Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Forbes, VICE, TechCrunch, CNN, New York Times, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, The Independent, NASDAQ.com, Huffington Post, TEDx, Google Solve For X, so many other avenues.
She has worked in various nations such as Sweden, France, the United States, China, Brazil, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Libya, Ghana, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and so on. She is also the founder and CEO of Shabat Corporations which is in existence since March 2011.
James Fennell Tempelhof | Chief Operations Officer
He is the Co-founder and COO of Bitnation with over 39 years of work experience in international security and governance working on Web3 technology solutions to major drivers of conflict and poverty such as migration and lack of access to employment and governance services. He is a gifted analyst and experienced security professional, and an expert on the political economy of fragile and conflict-affected states. He established and spearheaded the Emergency Operations Unit for CARE International UK where he was made one of the Members of the Order of the British Empire, running operations including responses to genocide and conflicts in Rwanda, Congo, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Afghanistan. He is a former DFID regional adviser having a high-level of experience in private security, global humanitarian support operations.
Dr. John Matthews | Chief Financial Officer
He is a chartered accountant and engineering Ph.D. who is passionate about data analysis specifically using python (pandas, Django, etc), learning. He is working at the Confluence of tech Business. He worked as an external auditor for banking clients where he became a financial and business expert. During his doctorate, he acquired research and analytical skills. He possesses a vast experience in communicating and presenting on technical subjects. He has even realized his goals in Corporate, academic and startup environments having a preference for Vim than Excel.
Sonja Prstec | Chief Legal Officer
She is the Chief legal officer for Bitnation. Sonja is an experienced Lawyer with demonstrated skills working in the blockchain industry advising technology projects, start-ups and token sales ICO and STO (utility and security tokens). She is well exposed to European Law, Corporate Law, Civil Litigation, Contract Negotiation. She is a strong legal professional with a diploma focused on challenging the regulatory landscape. She is also a legal adviser of IGT-CRYPTO and a Senior Legal officer for Status.im.
Kenneth Lillieholm | Diplomatic Engagement
He is a Former intelligence expert working with blockchain compliance frameworks, decentralized arbitration systems, and Dapp frameworks. He is an experienced diplomat in both decentralized and public regimes. He also works at Whitebridge AG in the area of intelligence.
He possesses a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and management that he attained in 2012 from Copenhagen Business School in Germany. He also studied Electrical, Electronics and communications Engineering which he attained from the DTU-Technical University of Denmark in the year 2000.
Rachelle Traboulsi | Executive Assistant
She is the Executive assistant at Bitnation. Prior to joining Bitnation, she worked for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for a year in the area of Youth Fellow, which is a Reproductive Health Program. While at UNFPA, she was concerned with implementing the Annual work plans with IPs, Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Education and selected NGOs, Implementing youth-led initiatives on Sexual Reproductive Health, targeting in total around 2000 young boys and girls. She possesses a master's degree in International development studies that she attained from the University of Amsterdam.
Abhimanyu Dayal | DApp Fund Manager
He is the decentralization Application Fund Manager at Bitnation who is a Finance graduate and has been heavily involved in the bitcoin/ blockchain space since 2013. He previously founded a blockchain and real estate research company called Estate chain, which addressed the ongoing issue of liquidity in real estate investment markets. He has a wide experience of working with companies in the Blockchain sector.
Advisory team
Falkvinge
Falkvinge who is one of Bitnation's advisors is the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party. He is famous for putting two members into the European Parliament on less than 1% of the competition’s budgets.
David Obarn
He is the founder and managing partner at Network Society Ventures, founder of the SingularityU Italy Summit, founder of Dotwords, founder of Futuroid, mentor at the Thiel Fellowship, founder of Axelera and so on.
Vinay Gupta
He is the founder of Hexayurt Guy Capital Partners and a project team leader at the hexayurt system. He is well experienced in Coding and disaster relief.
Todd Huffman
Huffman is the vice president at IST Research, a senior advisor of various companies, including Planet Labs, Delta Brain, Small World News, BIL Conference, DarkSum, Timbr.io. He is also a CEO and co-founder of 3Scan.
Kilian Kleinschmidt
He is the flag bearer and chairman of the Innovation and Planning agency, which is focused on connecting global resources with dispossessed populations. He is also an advisor to the German Minister on development.
Jedlička
He is the current president of the Free Republic of Liberland, a micronation claiming an uninhabited parcel of disputed land on the western bank of the Danube, between Croatia and Serbia.
David Drake
His main role is as chairman of the LDJ Cayman Fund. He is as well a serial board member and advisor for projects that include Vanig, the Global Crypto Offering Exchange, Bnktothefuture, ICOMax, Friendz, Vaultbank, Shopin, and many more.