1.3.3. Advisory Board

Philippe Engels: CEO at GoGreen, Barcelona, Spain.

Philippe studied Development and Security, International Relations at Bristol University (Postgrad) and Economics, law and linguistics at la Sorbonne Nouvelle (BSc). He is an entrepreneur (2016-2017, El Born Company, 2021-now, GoGreen) passionate about technologies and new business models in the token economy. With experience in project coordination and start-up management in both profit and non-profit, he is currently focusing on building strategic relationships with official institutions, universities, organizations and other key partners. He was involved in the technical and strategic development of Blockchain Company products and services, mostly in the token economics area.

He also identified innovation and research grants from public institutions and structural partnerships with the private sector. At GoGreen, he focuses on tokeneconomic and business development, trying to find solutions on how to best use blockchain technology to reduce air pollution in cities.

Néstor Oller: CEO at Netri Foundation, Spain.

Néstor Oller comes from an entrepreneurial family who after creating one of the top Spanish pharmaceutical companies decided to sell it by the turn of the century (just to cash in before all those catastrophic prophecies could come true...). The family business’ sale led to the creation of a Family Office, where Néstor has been the Managing Director for the last 15 years, currently having a diversified portfolio of real estate investments, direct private equity and financial assets.

At the same time, Néstor set up and manages the Netri Foundation, a 15- year-old family foundation focused on impact investments, donating the proceeds from those investments to social projects.

Néstor was born in Barcelona, Spain, holds a degree in Economics (Universidad Central de Barcelona) and an MBA (IESE Business School).

Jorge Alçada: CTO Advisor, Engineering Director at Typeform, Barcelona, Spain.

Jorge studied Computer Engineering (MSc) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is senior Software Engineering leader with 15+ years of professional experience. His career has taken him from the Aviation industry to the world of Entrepreneurship, where he dedicated a year to co-found two projects, then to other domains such as pioneering secure online elections, Cloud ERP Platforms and most recently to Marketing Automation Platforms. With a proven track record of achieving business results regardless of challenges, Jorge has built a reputation for empathizing and bridging the world of Product, Organization and Talent concerns with solid Software delivery foundations. Jorge currently serves as the strategic advisor Typeform’s CTO - an impressive scale up company that has grown 50% YoY for the past 3 years and has close to 150 thousand customers worldwide. He is first and foremost a believer in the power of engaged people coming together as a team to build solutions that scale.

Dr Jacques Ludik: CEO at Cortex Logic, President of MIIA, Cape Town, South Africa.

Dr Jacques Ludik is a smart technology entrepreneur, Artificial Intelligence (AI) expert, founder of multiple AI companies, author, and award-winning AI Leader with a Ph.D. in Computer Science (AI) and 25+ years' experience in AI, Machine Learning & Data Science and its applications. Dr Ludik's latest book is titled "Democratizing Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Everyone". He is currently Founder & CEO of Cortex Group and Cortex Logic as AI Engine for Business focused on providing scalable personalized AI- enabled wellness solutions, where Vive Teens is spin-out company focused on teenage mental health and Journey Wellness is a health wellness solution; and Founder & President of the Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA) focused on transforming Africa through AI.

Adis Begic: Blockchain Security Engineer.

Adis is a blockchain security engineer whose passion for hacking and cryptography ignited at a very early age and has been burning ever since. Adis is routinely working on ethically exposing security threats associated with blockchain-enabled businesses by combining know-how with applied up to date research on areas of concern within the blockchain industry.

Since early 2016, he has secured a myriad of blockchain projects which have raised millions in crowdfunding successfully and he’s also a diligent contributor to the open source security community and a strong advocate of privacy and decentralization. Conclusively, he only dedicates his time to projects which he truly believes are impactful.

Iara Izidoro: Head of Sustainability Research For BlockchainCompany Ltd , March 2018 – present.

Iara studied Pharmacy at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (BSc) and Oenology at Universitat Rovira I Virgili (MSc). She was a researcher at Universitat Rovira I Virgili, WildWine, European Program. She is a winemaker and food biochemist who has studied and worked in 9 different countries across the globe and has developed a strong connection with nature and the multicultural world. She joined Blockchain Company after sharing her passion about searching for solutions for the world’s most urgent problems with Robert Haastrup-Timmi. She is also very curious about Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies and got really excited once she saw the potential for it to help the planet and a better development of humankind. Recently, Iara has been working on an extensive Fourth Industrial Revolution market research and selecting high quality content for other future BC projects. Her complete curriculum is available on this link.

This advisory board is not Blockchain Valley SAS’ statutory board. Their role is solely to support and advise the company in their field of expertise. There is no statutory board as of now.

The members of the advisory board will not be remunerated. However, they will benefit from the 8% pool of 4IR Tokens that will be distributed to the team, partners and advisors (see the Section 5.5 “Allocation structure of Tokens to be issued by category of holder).