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Founder and CEO Ras is the Founder and CEO of Virtuse Exchange. Over the last 12 years, he has led the Virtuse team to become one of the most recognizable brands within the European energy industry. The company has grown to be one of the largest emissions traders in the EU and China, reaching revenue of EUR 250 million and servicing clients across 22 countries.

The beginning of his professional career is associated with two major global financial centers: London and New York. After receiving a degree in finance at Pace University in New York, he worked for Mitsui, and later represented New York’s investment banking and brokerage firm, Joseph Stevens & Company, Inc. Ras utilized his Wall Street experience in Europe, where he established a brokerage company in Prague, was involved in leading financial and private equity groups, and in 2006, he established Virtuse, which became a cornerstone for the future Virtuse Group. Ras oversaw global strategy, fintech trends, and investment relations for Virtuse Group, as well as the creation of new segments and possibilities in fintech and renewables. He has recently led Virtuse into new markets including China, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

Ras is married with three children and lives in Singapore. He speaks English, Slovak, French, Russian, and is working hard on his Mandarin and Polish.

Aside from serving as the Exchange’s COO, Matej is a member of top management of the Virtuse Group´s investment committee. Matej played a key role in determining the company strategy, while as an part of executive management, he is also responsible for daily operations, the execution of strategic initiatives, and for the operative supervising of the organisation.

He has been involved in the international financial and energy market industry for more than 12 years. After a 10-year career in financial news and media, he helped to establish Virtuse Group from its start in 2006. He participated in creating the wealth management business and investment advisory services in central Europe during his first years with the company.

Matej combined his skills with several years of management experience from international business. He was responsible for establishing and developing emissions, energy, and equity trading businesses, negotiations with new counterparties, analysing new markets, and was a participant in the application process for the global energy exchanges. Besides new partnership negotiations, he was active in energy trading on exchanges such as EPEX Spot, EEX, HUPX or PXE with a traded volume exceeding 1 TWh. He collaborated on the group’s expansion into foreign markets, managed the creation of new entities within Virtuse Group, and later, their integration under the group‘s structure. Matej managed the group´s expansion within the European continent, as well as towards SouthEast Asia.

Matej is married with two children and lives in Bratislava, Slovakia. He speaks Slovak, English, and German.

Adriana is the Chief Technical Officer at Virtuse Exchange, where she uses her experience in Agile Project Management with over 10 years history of delivering in the computer software industry, both internally in product development and externally in client implementation. Adriana combined her skills in Product Lifecycle Management, Data analysis and business processes, she was developing Agile teams and expert in regulatory reporting and Banking. She is strong operational professional with unwavering attention to detail, ability to focus and deliver within budget and deadline.

Rob is the Head of Asian Development with business development experiences across different industries for more than 15 years.

Previously, Rob spent 7 years working overseas in Bangkok, Thailand. As a Country Manager, he set up a Thai business entity for a Hong Kong-based listed company, Mobicon Group. Later, Rob moved to start the carbon team in ICIS, doing carbon market analysis and price forecast. Rob was responsible for the Energy portfolio in ICIS (part of Reed Business Information) for the past 5 years. Prior to that, Rob was in charge of the carbon trading portfolio in Ginga Petroleum. He accumulated vast knowledge of energy markets in North and Southeast Asia in Trading and Analysis roles.

Rob acted as a trainer in China for major Chinese companies like SINOPEC, HuaDian, and Wuhan Iron & Steel, among others. Recently, he completed a half triathlon in 2017, and a half marathon in 2016, and has a strong passion for running and crossfit exercises.

Marketing advisor with passion for new technologies. Eva is a marketing professional with more than 15 years of experience in B2B and B2C communication in technology business. Her expertise covers new technology launches, startup consulting, communication of large-scale projects on both the technology and client side, designing and executing of technology advisory forums, community building, and branding in technology business. Eva is an open-minded professional who likes creating things from scratch and appreciates courage to make things happen.

Over the last 7 years Jan gained experience in Startups, Consulting, IT, and Renewable energy.

He started his career in a small IT firm in Prague, developing information systems for companies in various industries. Later, he was involved in the development of several solar power plants in the region. In 2015, he moved to Southeast Asia and helped to establish and grow the food-delivery company, Food Panda in Singapore, Hong-Kong, and Malaysia. In 2017, the company IPO’d as part of Delivery Hero. Later, he was involved in the development of several solar power plants in the region and joined.

Jan`s greatest passions are scuba diving and sailplane gliding, discovering hard to reach destinations in Asia along the way.

Tomas is an experienced communication expert who has dedicated his life to media. Over 10 years, he had been working in economic and financial media, and has spent the last 9 years operating as media relations advisor specialising in support of new financial schemes and projects.

He has been providing services to multinational companies with activities across Europe, and was involved in key Virtuse projects developed in recent years. Now he is fully devoted to support this amazingly disrupting project in a stunning new crypto area.

Barbora has several years of experience in project management, marketing, PR, business development, event management and education in different business areas on an international level, ranging from the IT sector to real estate. Barbora lived, studied, and worked in Slovakia, the United States, and Austria, and is currently based in Bratislava, Slovakia. She has degrees in International Relations, Media Communication, and Education, and speaks Slovak, English and German.

Barbora loves to travel, learn new things, and gain new skills.

A professional with over 11 years of experience in the ICT space, holding various roles in business development and advisory capacities mainly with Korean MNCs and SMBs.

David is passionate about busienss development, strategy, marketing and most recently, blockchain, cryptocurrency and is an avid investor. Born in Korea and raised in USA, David brings multi-cultural and open-minded thought process for an innovative and outside the box thinking.

Jun Yi graduated with a degree in Business (Finance). In 2016, while working on a project for a stock exchange, he discovered blockchain and has never looked back since. Like your friendly guy-next door, Jun Yi loves helping the crypto community -- he is the Community Manager of various projects - TTC Protocol, Carry Protocol, Cosmochain and others.

Alex Cleanthous is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Web Profits, a digital marketing agency with offices in Singapore, Australia and the USA. With more than 17 years experience in digital marketing, Alex is always on the lookout for smarter, faster and more scalable ways to achieve maximum growth.

Marcelo is the founder and CEO of Maecenas and DXMarkets. Having previously worked at a number of large global banks, he has wide-ranging experience in designing and building large-scale enterprise-grade systems with a focus on investment banking and financial solutions.

As an entrepreneur, Marcelo has specialised in blockchain and financial technology, primarily in areas covering tokenisation of assets and new capital markets. His strong technical architecture and leadership skills have earned him the recognition and endorsement from his clients, teammates, and peers. Marcelo frequently speaks and presents at industry events, conducts specialised workshops and training sessions, and provides expert advice to companies.

Andrea has gradually developed her reputation of a business coach, especially in fast developing sectors of IT and Finance. Her experience is based on over 500 coaching sessions and dozens of group coaching and training sessions. Andrea is a member of ICF Global and ICF Singapore as an accredited ACC leadership coach.

She is a licensed Talent Dynamics consultant and actively works on establishing this Singapore Business Development model in the Central and Eastern Europe regions. She also keenly cooperates with Barrett Values Centre in London and is pioneering Neurobehavioural Modeling, the first systematically described brain-based Coaching process, in Singapore.

She is highly recognized as an award winning TV journalist, specializing in in-depth interviews of publicly well-known figures. Andrea is a co-founder of the GIFEW / Global Institute of Extraordinary Women.

Norbert is International Board & C-level investment/portfolio management senior executive. He has extensive investment and operating experience. Norbert specialises in investment management, acquisition, growth & value creation, portfolio management, corporate governance, shareholders, governments, and regulatory relations.

Ondrej has more than 10 years of experience with creating innovative digital concepts, improving functionalities of digital services and applications. He is helping with transforming and reshaping business and monetization models for different companies and startups. He is also an advisor to several startups. Currently, he is in the position of managing director in a SCR desig company, where he is focused on transforming businesses through UX/UI and design prototyping principles. In the past, he worked mostly on marketing and innovation concepts for companies such as Nissan, RedBull, Salomon, Under Armour, etc. He is passionate multi-athlete and ultra trail runner.

Having over 10 years of experience in the technology space, Alex has worked in different capacities within startups, marketing agencies, and academia. With a Master’s of Science degree in Human-Computer Interaction from DePaul University in Chicago, Alex now works as a frontend developer for Fiverr International, Ltd. Within the last couple of years, he has gained an acute interest in crypto and began exploring the space by writing and proofreading whitepapers, as well as offering general consultation on projects.

For the past 10 years, Zita has been working in the fast-evolving world of video production. She has worked as a producer for Northern Lights, a prestigious post-production company from NYC, producing for brands like Subaru, Head and Shoulders, and Microsoft. In 2011, she has produced an award winning feature length film called Regretting Fish.

After her maternity leave, she started focusing her skills on social media presence, marketing, and content creation for small to medium size change-makers of today. She has started Zitaatiz Media, which is dedicated to producing video content for spiritual leaders, healers, and other status quo shifters. She holds a degree in film production from CUNY - Hunter College, and also studied motion graphics at NYU.

Zita cares deeply about conscious evolution of all humans, she loves to read philosophy and history, and will never pass on a chance to dance or sing to a great song.

Marketing advisor with passion for SEO and content marketing. Peter is, as he calls himself, a universal soldier with more than 15 years of experience in online marketing. During this time he worked on many projects for well known international brands and agencies. His hands-on field of expertise is web and online apps development, online marketing, SEO, project management, sales consultations and overall online business development. Peter has a great sense for detail and understanding of client’s and customers’ needs.

Marilyn is a young millennial who is interested in exploring cryptocurrency and exposed to blockchain movement since 2017. She recently came back from her working holiday trip in Taiwan. Marilyn is a happy go lucky and bubbly person who likes talking and meeting up with new people, which has led her to join Virtuse’s social media and community team. As a millennial, she loves doing sports, updating herself with latest news , memes, board games, going to concerts and traveling to new places.

Having been in the cybersecurity space since 2013, Jorden has gotten numerous placings and medals in CTF (Capture-the-flag) competitions. A ConsenSys Academy Developer Scholarship holder, he has worked on various Ethereum-based projects and is passionate about understanding Distributed Ledger Technology and its applications on society. He pioneered SMU Blockchain, the first University Blockchain club in Singapore as Technology Director and is involved in various crypto-millenial groups. Currently working on Penetration Testing at the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore and doing protocol layer research for JEDTrade.

Yavor is a Carbon markets veteran and a long time business partner of Virtuse Group who runs a CO2 emissions trading and advisory firm in Europe. He has structured various financial & investment products based on carbon emissions and traded millions tones of CO2 in the last 8 years. Yavor believes in the efficiency of Carbon markets in our global efforts to cut human produced carbon emissions and stop climate change. He previously worked as Listing & membership Director at the Bulgarian Stock Exchange and Head of Back Office at CIBANK, KBC. Yavor is active in the startup &blockchain space and is involved in a few crypto projects and ICO’s. He is passionate about improving our global financial systems and access to capital markets using token economy and decentralized platforms.

Chen Hui combines personal passion for investing and foundation technologies with decades of experience in software and platform engineering. He has a strong interest in cloud and blockchain technologies. He is hopeful of a decentralized platform which enables individuals to control their preference and data. He previously served as Cloud Solution Architect of Mitel Networks, and, has held various sales engineering and managerial positions. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering from National Taiwan University, and, a master’s degree in communication engineering from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.