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Senior Solution Architect MENA | Banking & Capital Markets 

SettleMint

SettleMint is the Blockchain Transformation Company that connects the dots between people, processes and technology to accelerate value creation with blockchain. It enables enterprises to easily and rapidly build and integrate blockchain applications, while empowering teams with the skills, knowledge, methodologies, guidance and ongoing support they need

Senior Blockchain Solution Architect in EMEA

Blockchain Solution Architect in MENA

Sprynt

Enabling dApps to accept web3 payments from any chain removing the hassle for users to bridge funds.

Advisor

Deloitte

Manager in Trade Automation in the global trade advisory team and blockchain lead in MENA
•	Product Manager leading our trade automation tools: Automating customs classification using AI/RPA; Digitalisation of the issuance/transfer/verification of the Certificate of Origin using blockchain technology;
•	Advising exporters/importers on streamlining supply chain processes;
•	Leading three IT implementation projects for multinational companies of 500K-1M in the MENA region

Manager Trade Automation - Blockchain Lead for Trade in the Middle East

Focusing on trade automation and blockchain for Customs/Trade/VAT processes

Trade Automation Exp. Senior Consultant

o Co-leading the blockchain practice within Deloitte Belgium
o Manage the development of Proof-of-Concept (PoC)
o Product owner of 2 PoCs on the digitalization of excise stamps and the documentary evidence for EU VAT exemption;
 o Keynotes, awareness sessions, workshops, deep-dives on
blockchain technology, focus in supply chain and the opportunities from a Tax & Legal perspective
o Conduct blockchain course trainings on blockchain in EMEA

Senior Consultant

o Consultant in the global trade advisory (GTA) team and blockchain lead in global trade and vat;
o Ongoing assistance with customs and trade compliance for multiple large companies;
o Advising on and implementing system integrations on blockchain and SAP Global Trade System;

Consultant

Easyexports

Fintech industry (supply chain and banking services)
•	Handling the business Development of our platform and the customer acquisition (20% growth in the last 6 months);
•	Development of Trade finance POC on blockchain technology; 
•	Successfully Identifying and capturing business requirements, and translate them into specific solutions using blockchain technology;
•	Creating and developing the business plan and planning financial forecasts;

Easyexports, a B2B web platform that connects exporters/buyers and insurance companies in international trade through a decentralised network. Using blockchain technologies, all communication between these parties are direct and do not pass through a specific central entity. 
Easyexports becomes the toolkit for the exporters and buyers in international trade helping them receive the most efficient leads (based on information around products, location, capacity, certificates, financials) and trade in a safe and transparent environment.
www.easyexports.eu
Launched the beta version in October 2016.

Product Manager, Co-founder

European Economic and Social Committee

o	Follow-up of EESC study groups (especially on Digital Single Market), namely by drafting briefings papers and summaries, using Dynamics Customer Relationship Manager (CRM);
o	Assisting EESC members to prepare important hearings and conferences on topics such as the 7TH Framework programme on R&D, Social enterprise, ICT Industry; 
o	Responsible of the social media at the INT section, use of Tweetdeck and Google Analytics; 
o	Successfully initiated and coordinated a conference on “The Challenge of Climate Migration; a EU perspective” with 250 participants and 6 high-level speakers (UNHCR, IOM, EC, EP, EEAS, CLIMates); copywriting and setting the digital marketing campaign of the conference.
o	Successfully coordinated a two-day conference on “Responsible Research & Innovation” with 280 participants;

Consultant INT section (Single Market, Production, Consumption)

Steficon S.A.

Trainee as a Junior Account Manager and Copywriter:
o	Active member of the Client service team, B2B services;
o	Participating in the development of new, integrated communication services; Involved in brand & digital marketing campaigns for Bulldog Gin, Superfast Ferries, Golden Cargo, NN (former ING), National Greek Gallery;

Junior Account Manager

AIESEC in Louvain-La-Neuve

o	Facilitating international internships with leading companies including Microsoft, ING and Toyota
o	Organizing leadership conferences and the annual AIESEC job fair 
o      Organizing information sessions for prospective interns

Team Leader

On a mission to accelerate blockchain adoption in banking and capital markets. 

Athina Stantzos

After over a decade of experience in financial services and several years fascinated by decentralised and peer-to-peer technologies, I co-founded SettleMint with a straightforward mission, we make building and integrating blockchain and DLT applications easy for IT teams.

At SettleMint we pride ourselves on delivering the shortest path from a business idea to a blockchain based application with our Blockchain Platform as a Service solution. We bundle decades of cross-sector enterprise experience with in-depth, practical knowledge of blockchain technologies and use cases to make the journey easy.

Our Blockchain Platform as a Service solution encapsulates this experience and knowledge and functions as a foundation for real-world applications of blockchain technology like registration & authentication of documents, provenance tracking, Know Your Customer, decentralised marketplaces, IoT and digital voting.

Get in touch if you want to hear more about how our technology can accelerate your companies journey with blockchain technology.

Chief Executive Officer

Databroker

DataBroker is a decentralised, peer to peer marketplace for data providing a direct path to secure data sharing and monetisation, turning sunk costs into perpetual revenue streams.

Individuals, companies, researchers & governments are spending hundreds of billions each year on buying and maintaining data. The growth of the investment and applications in IoT and AI is truly staggering, and yet, the data produced is generally locked up in organisational silos.

With DataBroker, we aspire to unleash long-tail creativity and facilitate the conversion of incredible ideas into value adding services. By providing a distributed foundational layer for the secure sharing, buying and selling of data, we expect that unimagined uses of data that exist in the hearts and minds of entrepreneurs, researchers and organisations around the world will emerge to create incredible value adding services that enrich the quality of life in our cities and our societies as a whole.

Co-Founder & CEO

Bolero Crowdfunding

Launch of equity crowdfunding platform from green light to commercial launch in 5 months.
Launch of first publicly available blockchain based application by a bank/broker in Europe creating a virtual primary and secondary market for unlisted companies.
Winner of EFMA innovation award for best new product or service in 2015.

Co-founder & Architect

KBC Securities Bolero

Responsible for the business architecture and product management team of the online retail brokerage platform Bolero, winner of broker of the year ever since it launched in 2015.

Head of Platform Innovation & Development

KBC Consumer Finance

COO at KBC Consumer Finance Belgium

KBC Bank & Verzekering

Lean Navigator

Internal Consultant for Central 
European banking

Internal Management Consultant

Daimler Chrysler

Strategy consultant (Daimler Chrysler Financial Services)

J Tech Solutions K.K.

Concept to launch responsibilities

Major projects:
Sporting goods import business
ERP program for small businesses

Business Development

Tomita Kokusai Shoji co., Ltd.

Investment Manager

Peace Boat

Volunteer for an NGO that brings awareness to social issues around the globe. Circumnavigating the globe to see first hand how social issues impact the world we live in.

World traveller

In 2016 after several years of analysis and experimentation with blockchain technologies in financial services and capital markets, I cofounded SettleMint with one objective: to simplify the blockchain transformation journey for enterprises.

When you believe in the benefits that the technology will bring to organisations and to society as a whole, there is an accompanying moral obligation to accelerate the adoption of the technology and that is what we do at SettleMint. 

Our chain and infrastructure agnostic blockchain transformation platform provides the absolute shortest path between a use case concept and the realisation of the business case underpinning it. 

Prior to SettleMint, I moved to Belgium in 2006 where I completed my MBA then went to work at KBC. First as an internal management and operations consultant, later as the COO of the Belgian Consumer Finance business and finally as the Head of Platform Innovation at KBC Securities where I was responsible for the technical side of the online retail brokerage platform ‘Bolero’ and the equity crowdfunding platform ‘Bolero Crowdfunding’.

A Canadian by origin and an Economist (Western) and MBA (Vlerick) by education, I spent the first 7 years of my international career in Tokyo, working in FX brokerage and where I launched two online retailing companies.

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