Axalio

Acquired 9.5K+ users through an early teaser campaign and conducting 400+ surveys to promote financial inclusion and focus strategy. 

Head a global team, establishing strategic partnerships with technology providers and geopolitical entities, and offering low-fee banking products and investment opportunities. 

Join us in our mission to create a world where everyone has the opportunity to succeed and prosper.

Founder & CEO

Pan-African Tech Foundation

Supervised all activities and steer a team of experts across sub-regional hubs, contributing to Africa's sustainable development. 

Coordinated and covered 3 bootcamps for Francophone sub-regional hubs between August 2021 and 2022, helping the implementation of emerging technologies and providing support to organizations across the continent.

Non-Executive Director

Cryptovecs Capital

Processed $5M+ OTC transactions and facilitated a $42M strategic partnership with AS Roma for Zytara Labs.

Addressed attendees at conferences in 10+ countries on four continents, building a professional network and partnerships in blockchain, digital assets, and DeFi.

Innovecs Consulting

Improved sales by 40% and relieved 60 hours/week on job bag management for 150+ sales reps in exhibition and conferencing department with an online portal.

Reduced cost by 30% and pushed revenue growth through business development.

The World Bank Treasury (IBRD • IDA)

Managed a $71M budget for deploying a 4,500 Km optic-fibre network in DRC, assuring optimal resource utilization and timely project completion. 

Optimised resource allocation, resulting in a 300% increase in project funding compared to previous terms.

Focal Point to the Minister of Portfolio

MiiPayy

As the co-founder and technology strategist of MiiPayy, I was leading the innovative thinking in revolutionizing the South African mobile payments market. Our platform was being built to enable smartphone users to make payments securely, quickly, and without the hassle of carrying physical payment methods.

Co-Founder & Technology Strategist

Adlistic

As the co-founder and Executive Director of Adlistic, I led the development of a new and innovative technology company that revolutionized the advertising industry by solving a common problem faced by advertisers worldwide.

John Wanamaker's famous quote "Half of the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half" still holds true today. Adlistic addresses this issue by providing accurate reporting and measurement of consumer engagement with ads across all mediums, including TV, print, online, radio, and magazines.

Our revolutionary technology at Adlistic offers advertisers unparalleled insights into their campaigns, enabling them to make data-driven decisions and optimize their ad spending.

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Nozukoalulutho Holdings

As a Non-Executive Director, I led "Special Projects" at our company, which involved connecting competent black suppliers to clients with diverse procurement needs in any commodity. My focus was on building strong and close relationships with various suppliers to understand their core strengths, weaknesses, and their abilities to deliver on the most demanding and challenging projects while keeping a focus on their Enterprise Development requirements.

Non-Executive Director & Project Manager

Standard Bank Group

Increased customer satisfaction ratings by 20% through effective communication and relationship management, ensuing in a boost in business growth. 

Saved $500,000 annually and cut down weekly workload by 15 hours by enforcing and maintaining a productivity statistics database in compliance with corporate policies.

Project Manager & Solution Delivery Manager

JRB Solutions

At JRB Solutions, I was a Managing Director and Founder of a software development consulting firm. My core responsibilities included developing a strategic plan to steer positive impact in the South African market, implementing growth plans, and ensuring that I aligned the organizational structure and management team to implement the business plan in a functional and cost-effective manner.

In addition, I introduced profitable and competitive products and services into the target market, managed day-to-day activities to meet financial objectives, and marketed the brand amongst the business community, media, and key stakeholders in the government and private sector.

As the company evolved into Innovecs Consulting, I played a key role in the re-branding effort to provide better and improved services to our customers while employing additional technologies and providing more professional services. I also maintained relationships with technology companies, CRM companies, partners, customers, and professional networks to support business growth.

Founder & Managing Director

As founder of JRB Solutions, I managed CRM implementations using our deployment methodology, conducted requirements workshops, customized reports, and provided post-implementation support. I also helped to define structural and cultural changes to achieve goals, designed and conducted business solution testing, and planned efforts to identify value creation opportunities for clients.

Senior Customer Relationship Management Consultant, Developer

Created Windows and Web solutions based on customer requirements and recommendations, utilizing innovative technologies for development team success. 

Cooperated with developers to stabilize and test Web solutions for products/projects, ensuring user satisfaction and project success.

Senior Software Developer

Advancing Sustainability and NetZero Goals. Empowering Small-Scale Miners with Blockchain. Advocate for DeFi & Financial Equity

I have over 17 years of experience in IT leadership, software development, and digital transformation. I have managed complex projects and programs across various industries. My expertise lies in client relationship management, consulting and solutions delivery, risk management, leadership, and communication. I have a record of accomplishment of generating quantifiable success.

Currently, I am the CEO and founder of Axalio where I lead a team of seven building unique products to transform the finance industry by leveraging blockchain technology to empower underserved communities. 

During my tenure at Standard Bank Group, I led a team of four developers and eight support engineers. Together, we improved internal processes for key departments such as compliance, governance, legal, and fraud. Our efforts also led to increased revenues for the PBB retail sector within the bank. At another previous employer, I identified new revenue drivers and increased sales by over 180% in less than six months by deploying CRM solutions and integrating several ERPs with blue chip companies.

I have a hands-on leadership style, and I align sales processes with leading-edge technologies. I have a strong sense of leadership that guides each team member to reach their full potential, and I always align sales teams and developers and organize meetings to achieve buy-in on key directives.

Through decentralized finance and ESG-conscious solutions, I am unlocking the potential for better financial health and wealth creation for people in Africa and the world.

If you catch me outside of work, I'm an adventurous traveler - 35 countries and counting - and an avid lover of tennis!

Competencies: Software Development, Blockchain, DeFi, Web 3.0, Entrepreneurship, Customer Relations, Managing Teams, Strategic Partnerships, Business Strategy.

Feel free to connect with me to learn on LinkedIn or contact me directly on john@axalio.com or on Twitter (@JohnLombela) to learn more about Axalio, blockchain technology, or our mission to empower the underserved. I am always looking to grow my personal and professional network and share experiences.

John Lombela

Fuel Labs

Fuel is an operating system purpose-built for Ethereum rollups, designed to help developers build decentralized economies at scale.

Head of DeFi

Sweat Economy

Sweat Economy's vision is to make the world more active through the biggest Web2 to Web3 transition to date - 120 million users in total, with 13 million wallets created in 3 months.

Responsible for setting up and scaling all things Treasury and Tokenomics.

Head of Treasury

BrightNode

BrightNode is a professional business consulting firm based in Switzerland, leader in Web3 and Blockchain consulting.

Tokenomics Advisor

Hacken, Blockchain Security Auditor

Hacken is an industry leader in blockchain security auditing with a vision of transforming Web3 into a more ethical place.

Tokenomics Audit

Elixir Protocol

Elixir Protocol is bringing liquidity to the long tail of crypto assets, via the first decentralized, algorithmic market making protocol.

Co-Founder & Researcher

Bitstamp

Within the oldest running Crypto exchange, I was one of the two members responsible for setting up the Treasury Department from the ground up. Responsible for majority of daily operation setups in both crypto & fiat. Eventually led the Treasury Analytics.

Implemented setup has been supporting:
• 5x growth in AUM, 
• 23x growth in Daily Volume, 
• 8x increase in number of trading pairs,
• 10x increase in number of bank accounts, 
while Bitstamp Group increased 4x in FTE and tripled its number of legal entities since 2019.

I was heavily involved in ALM and Liquidity Management, Financial Modeling, building and automating processes.

Treasury & ALM

Castle Finance

Castle Finance is building the next generation of investment products and financial tools that will enable DAOs to thrive. Research focused on effective Risk-adjusted DAO Treasury Management.

Treasury Researcher

Enver.io

Enver Protocol enables brands to protect their intellectual property rights and allows customers to verify products’ authenticity through Smart Contracts.

Responsible for all things Finance.

Co-Founder & Head of Finance

Generali Slovenija

Associate Professional in Treasury Department (AUM of 2.0 billion USD).

My role mainly included the NAV calculations, portfolio yield calculations, sensitivity analysis & ALM, Investment planning, process automations and extensive modelling & simulations (PRIIPs, Real-estate Profitability etc.)

Treasury & ALM Department 

Managing and auditing statistical reports and calculating premiums and claims, as a part of Non-Life Insurance Actuarial department. 

(Position held intermittently August to September, 2015 and August to September, 2016)

Actuary

Generali Investments Slovenia

As a part of my Apprenticeship within the Asset Management Department at KD Funds (now Generali Investments LLC Slovenia; AUM of 900 million USD) I individually worked on development of two applications:

•  Bond Portfolio Optimization: a one-click application that reads a Bond portofolio, calculates all the Cash flows, Yields, Durations and Convexities for all the bonds, and gives you an option to optimize the portfolio by maximizing one of the three available factors.

•  Bond Opportunity Analysis: I developed a one-click application that calculates Rollover returns. It summarises all as a one-sheet summary where you easily spot the most undervalued bonds and their issues.

Asset Management Analyst

Merging more than 10 years of experience as a Professional Athlete, Financial Researcher and a DeFi Expert. Co-Founded several startups and consulted more than 50.

In the last years I've been researching and solving complex challenges in Asset Management, Insurance and Blockchain Industries. I'm an advisor for numerous startups in Web3, helping them with Strategies & Product Development, Designing sustainable Token Economies and building efficient Treasury Systems.

Apart from ALM, I have vast experience in DeFi, building efficient Token models and managing DAO Treasuries. I am a seasoned futures trader, while crafting my PhD thesis in traditional markets.

DeFi & Web3 Companies & Startups I've worked with: Bitstamp, Hacken, Sweat Economy, G20 Group, Elixir Protocol (co-founded), Kover Finance (co-founded), Castle Finance, Babb, Akshun, RWAX, Undeads, SwissAssetDAO and many others.

Non-Crypto Startups: Vibo - Smart Chocolate (co-founded)

Technical skills: Excel, VBA & Power Query, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch 3 (Expert); Python, R, SQL, Grafana, Tableau, Jira, Confluence, Stata, Matlab (Basic to Intermediate).

I speak Slovene, Croatian/Serbian, Italian and English fluently.

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